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.
Reminds me of that time in philosophy class when I expressed my belief that we should abolish private property so the teacher asked me to give her my shirt
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-03-31
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 jaredschaffer27 2019-03-31
Lol teaching about ownership of private property in schools is Nazi. What can good men do against such reckless anarchism?
1 Leakylocks 2019-03-31
Well if you needed more evidence that the average anarchist is a teenager, there you go.
1 charming_tatum 2019-03-31
Fatty BTFO'd
1 detroitvelvetslim 2019-03-31
Incredible work for the revolution Comrade. Now into the Gulag, we've decided education is now bourgeoise and reactionary.
1 NB419 2019-03-31
so is this sub supposed to be criticizing reddit drama or creating it? Because that title reads salty as fuck lmao
1 tifrifrudr 2019-03-31
When we talk about private property, we mean other people's private property. How is that so hard to understand?