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.

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I am of the opinion that harassing people who arnt capable or in the position of being able to give you a nice fisting should be illegal.

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i posted it bitch, got a problem?

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hellemen is the best mayo, next to adolf hitler

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Hey guys! We actually only the 4th highest HIV rate in the world!

The Boers should have finished the job.

Yup, we're top of the list for rape - but we are pretty low on the list for things like murder compared to the rest of Africa.

South Africa confirmed world leader in unfounded optimism.

why dont they just move out and colonize their neighbor or something

Highest HIV infection rate: Nope, we are number 4.

Refuted with FACTS and LOGIC. Guess he won't be parroting THAT right-wing smear for long, now.