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 2019-02-19
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 TendiesAndMeth 2019-02-19
SENTIENT
1 MyAliasWasTaken 2019-02-19
dude snappy is sentient lmao
1 Matthew94 2019-02-19
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ary0b5/michigan_powerlifter_heroically_lifts_vehicle/egr7e5q/?context=1
You're a disgrace.
1 mixand 2019-02-19
can't see what was said, do you remember?
1 I_Burned_The_Lasagna 2019-02-19
https://www.removeddit.com/r/news/comments/ary0b5/michigan_powerlifter_heroically_lifts_vehicle/egr7e5q/?context=1
1 hoseja 2019-02-19
Not using ?context=1488
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-02-19
wow wtf r/news has username pinging why don't we
1 mygoodpostingalt 2019-02-19
also this is peak reddit unfunny bullshit delete reddit
1 Logan_Pauler 2019-02-19
I don't know what is going on, so I'm gonna assume everyone there is retarded.
1 ItsOverForTayceIIs 2019-02-19
> /r/news
Safe assumption, kid.
1 Zeriell 2019-02-19
Wow, that's a whole lotta [removed].
1 hoseja 2019-02-19
Is it that hard to add context you troglodyte?