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No worries though, Germany is raiding peoples houses for offending people online. Please spare me the "only for Holocaust deniers" thing.
by jakeogh 2y ago
No worries though, Germany is raiding peoples houses for offending people online. Please spare me the "only for Holocaust deniers" thing.
- gildas 2y agoI'm sorry but it's normal. You don't have the right to offend people online or not.
- jakeogh 2y ago[flagged]
- gildas 2y agoI sincerely apologize if you found my response offensive. It was not my intention and I try to respect the moderation rules on HN. I just wanted to give my point of view, as a person living in the EU.
- jakeogh 2y agoThis might seem unrelated. I pray you decided to watch the first yt link. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6lsUJdGLFx7OGLRQCQfHQPWcMDPc5Ey7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6lsUJdGLFx7OGLRQCQfH...
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoYou can’t have free speech without being able to offend. And you can’t have democracy without free speech.
- gildas 2y agoYes, but in this case, there's nothing to stop you from apologizing and possibly discuss the offending point so that it doesn't happen again.
- refurb 2y agoWhat you just said offends my beliefs in fundamental human right to free speech. Who do I call to press charges?
- gildas 2y agoI sincerely apologize again if you found my response offensive. You can contact your local police to make a complaint, I suppose.
- adamsb6 2y agoI find this extremely offensive.
- gildas 2y agoI'm sorry. I'm open to discussion if you can explain what is offending to you
- sepositus 2y agoWhat's normal? You just offended a whole group of people and probably had no intention of doing it. You're proving the point on why the whole thing doesn't work. You should get your comment removed if you seriously believe this to be true and want to avoid being hypocritical.
- gildas 2y agoI'm sorry if you feel offended. My comments will be removed by HN moderators if they think it's necessary. You can flag and downvote them meanwhile. You can also contact the moderators or your local police if you think it is necessary. EDIT: It might not be possible to flag or downvote comments. So, I recommend you to contact the moderators or your local police. You can find my name and address on my GitHub profile.
- sepositus 2y agoI have no interest in pressing charges against you or getting you in trouble. That would be hypocritical of me and contrary to my beliefs. I was simply pointing out how easy it is to offend people on the internet and why it simply doesn't work at scale. If no one has the right to say something potentially offensive on the internet, then the whole thing needs to be shut down.
- gildas 2y agoThank you for explaining your point of view on the interest of this conversation. Here's mine, I consider an offense to be something quite subjective sometimes. In some cases, it's possible to offend someone without meaning to. The solution to this problem is to apologize and offer to talk about it. If that doesn't work, and the offense is in some way "forbidden", then the offended person can simply defend themselves by going to the “authorities”.