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.
I want to call these guys the f-word. Not because I am conflating their behavior with homosexuality, there's nothing gay about these guys. Nor do I think that there's anything wrong with being gay. There's not. But these guys are such f-words. It is the first thing that came to my head. Again, I realize it's the wrong word and it's hurtful to use, but damn it. I wish we could still use it to describe these f****ts. Sorry gay bros.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-12-17
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 scatmunchies 2018-12-17
Huh, the proud boys are a gay white supremacist group. TIL.
1 regionalfire 2018-12-17
Censoring yourself on the internet, peak Reddit liberal.
1 73696D756C6174696F6E 2018-12-17
Since he deleted it, here it is:
1 TheSubredditPolice 2018-12-17
I didn't know white suburban college kids were immigrants now.