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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1 SnapshillBot 2019-02-12
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 charming_tatum 2019-02-12
Every time r/drama makes a Gallowboob post
1 NoahHaders 2019-02-12
Old
1 Psyman2 2019-02-12
Gloriously retarded
1 strathmeyer 2019-02-12
Is America slow coward failure again?
1 Psyman2 2019-02-12
lmao you too?
Gurl is on a personal vendetta.
1 BlacJeesus 2019-02-12
Oh no, there's no choice but to put him down.
1 xXEpicGamer69Xx 2019-02-12
1 PM_ME_YA_TATTAS 2019-02-12
I am not sure if this person was trolling or was just that stupid
My guess is that it was China shill with poor grasp of english
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-02-12
mods, can we ping? this guy isn't going to report to the admins.
1 sadderreborn 2019-02-12
Pro china propoganda pigs are disgusting
Watch some advchina for once
1 Ung-Tik 2019-02-12
Cut him some slack, if he doesn't toe the line he gets disappeared.
1 detroitvelvetslim 2019-02-12
The animal facts bot mowed down that Suicidenetposter like the US Marines hosed down the Chinese horde at the Chosin river