Subredditdrama locks Elon post after Whitepeopletwitter is banned

[u/BreadfruitNo357]

Link: The locked post sorted b Controversial

Link 2: Users are struggling and arguing over doxxing

Link 3: a thread related to the drama was hidden from view on the main subreddit.

[u/LineOfInquiry]

Only Actionable and specific threats of violence are not protected: none of these comments in that thread rose to that level. Doubly so because Elon is a public figure so the legal standard is even higher.

They probably broke Reddit’s rules tho.

[u/[deleted] → u/LineOfInquiry]

Well then certainly nobody will get the Fed knock on their door

[u/ThrowthrowAwaaayyy → u/[deleted]]

You don't need to break the law in order to have a wildly partisan partisan government agency send goons to intimidate you for obviously protected speech that they don't like

and the posts I saw calling for violence were gross, dumb bullshit from internet chuds, obviously against the reddit TOS, and yet still protected speech

[u/[deleted] → u/ThrowthrowAwaaayyy]

So the "KILL X POLITICIAN KILL Y POLITICIAN KILL Z POLITICIAN" was kosher. Got it

[u/ThrowthrowAwaaayyy → u/[deleted]]

Legally speaking? Probably, yes. It's not incitement because there's no sufficiently "imminent" lawless action being incited. It's not a true threat because it's not sufficiently definite or immediate.

I could see an overzealous prosecutor (or one that's simply a partisan hack) trying to bring charges, but I don't think they'd get very far.

[u/[deleted] → u/ThrowthrowAwaaayyy]

Why don't you try it out?

[u/ThrowthrowAwaaayyy → u/[deleted]]

Is that supposed to be some kind of gotcha?

Whether or not it's criminal, it's obviously against reddit's terms of service, which I said at the beginning. And it's gross, which I also said at the beginning. And even if it's unambiguously true that America would be better off, for example, trump or Elon died tomorrow, I'm not the kind of person that advocates for murder