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 2019-05-20
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 AnnoysTheGoys 2019-05-20
Fixed
1 ImNotRobertKraft 2019-05-20
Thank you
1 WarSanchez 2019-05-20
HOMOSEXUALITY PREVENTS ABORTION.
1 reeeditor 2019-05-20
Ain't called flamers for nothing
1 Inceltiers 2019-05-20
Homosexuality prevents f*ids
1 ChancellorRiffRaff 2019-05-20
Inshallah. Mandatory abortions for gays.
1 tonguelessnitch 2019-05-20
Imagine that I put a link to Sinner by Judas Priest
1 AugustinesBitchBoy 2019-05-20
Based and Romans(1:26-27)-pilled
1 jerryjoneshere 2019-05-20
My namesake very likely disagrees with you