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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4 SnapshillBot 2020-05-31
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.
>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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3 Lord_Sticky 2020-05-31
Twitter is a platform literally designed around keeping your thoughts brief and yet people still manage to WORDSWORDSWORDS it
5 NumerousEvent 2020-05-31
130 characters.
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1 -Kite-Man- 2020-05-31
why use lot words when few words do trick?
1 shitaim 2020-05-31
Why link to a more appropriate platform when you could post 13 disjointed blocks of text?
2 HodorLePortePorte 2020-05-31
So I’m no longer allowed to buy tiki torches and Hawaiian shirts. Are mai tai’s next?
1 ironicshitpostr 2020-05-31
Pathetic
1 DeficientRat 2020-05-31
Just wait for when a dude comes in aggro on an a-frame while shooting people in the tube. Talk about dumping on an ankle buster.
1 contentedserf 2020-05-31
Free men don't ask
1 ToonamiWasted 2020-05-31
I'm not going to lie, it was an interesting read. Though my dads been saying " 2 electric boogaloo" for like 30 years.
1 TayloTayloBookito 2020-05-31
So has mine, Hell, I picked it up from him.
1 [deleted] 2020-05-31
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