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Re:Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts by quotemstr on Saturday May 16, 2015 @02:59AM (#9555274)
Fundamentally, the risk of bad outcomes is the price we pay for living in a free society. I would rather recognize the right of everyone to say anything, and occasionally do great things, than cower behind speech restrictions designed to produce a safe, bland uniformity.
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Re:Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday May 16, 2015 @04:57AM (#9555471)
> I would rather recognize the right of everyone to say anything, and occasionally do great things, than cower behind speech restrictions designed to produce a safe, bland uniformity.

"Safe, bland uniformity"? Lives are at stake. People's safety is at stake.

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Re:Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts by quotemstr on Saturday May 16, 2015 @04:57PM (#9557588)
"Safety"? Coming from your ilk, which calls all dissent "harassment", that's a terrifying and ominous word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety

Mean words on the internet put nobody's life at risk.

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Re:Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday May 17, 2015 @09:27AM (#9559937)
> "Safety"? Coming from your ilk, which calls all dissent "harassment",

Well aren't you a nasty piece of work. Using a straw man to claim harassment doesn't exist.

> Mean words on the internet put nobody's life at risk.

Completely untrue. People have been bullied into suicide many, many times. Vulnerable people can have their address revealed and receive physical attacks or be outright murdered. Hate speech can incite violence.

Get out of your fantasy land. Speech and action are not divorced, and words usually hurt far more than sticks or stones.

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