If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.
if it is in fact on shaky legal ground it's reasonable to not want to be the case that establishes it as illegal.
It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.
Still? He refuses to listen or believe anything anyone tells him. If there is a chance he could come out of this looking wrong, he will quadruple down.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-12-04
If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.
It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.
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1 froibo 2018-12-04
Preach
1 JayBaumanManhole 2018-12-04
Its over for free-trade cells
1 Baconlightning 2018-12-04
If the richest country on Earth is poor, what is the rest?
1 duckraul2 2018-12-04
people tell me europe is basically like the Road Warrior series of films nowadays
1 kermit_was_right 2018-12-04
Does he still not understand how tariffs work?
1 TruthPains 2018-12-04
Still? He refuses to listen or believe anything anyone tells him. If there is a chance he could come out of this looking wrong, he will quadruple down.
1 LikeTotesObvi 2018-12-04
Fuck a soybean future