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.
Game review and editorial magazine that used to have a big YouTube channel, but it's only regular upload is Zero Punctuation which is a favorite series of mine.
It's actually pretty clear and straight forward. Organization's a bit messy, but I found
4) It is still to this day difficult to start a conversation about the very real issues of ethics and transparency — in publishing, in criticism, in consuming — without reopening the terrible wounds caused by the bad people who used those topics as a smokescreen to conduct their harassment, terrorism, and culture war.
to be pretty on the dot, given the article's retraction and the Escapist's apology.
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-02-07
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 mohkohnsepicgun 2019-02-07
First: who the fuck still writes articles about gamergate.
Second: who the fuck still reads The Escapist?
1 WreckingYourHome 2019-02-07
Third: what's The Escapist?
1 RepostStat 2019-02-07
Game review and editorial magazine that used to have a big YouTube channel, but it's only regular upload is Zero Punctuation which is a favorite series of mine.
But in more relevant news: Here's the "controversial" article in question, titled "How Do We Finally Talk About Ethics?" by Russ Pitts.
It's actually pretty clear and straight forward. Organization's a bit messy, but I found
to be pretty on the dot, given the article's retraction and the Escapist's apology.
1 Velxon 2019-02-07
Fucking gamergate terrorists caused cyber 9/11
1 RepostStat 2019-02-07
Gamers are literally worse than Hitler!!
1 mohkohnsepicgun 2019-02-07
Oh look, they rehired Moviebob. Fuck me.
Apparently the old owner who fired him lost a shit-ton of money bankrolling everyone's favorite ebehebeholiphile bussy boi Milo Y.
ha
1 RepostStat 2019-02-07
I couldn't think of a more unsafe investment.
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1 1029384756-mk2 2019-02-07
The guys who pay yatzee to make zero punctuation.
1 BumwineBaudelaire 2019-02-07
lol
1 GreasyPeter 2019-02-07
He's bent the knee to Zoe and her pack now and he can never come back from it. All he had to do was stay off twitter and ignore her. He failed.