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I think generally the argument is that these usually aren’t credible threats, they’re hyperbole, and the police are overstepping by arresting people for saying
by recursive-call 2mo ago
I think generally the argument is that these usually aren’t credible threats, they’re hyperbole, and the police are overstepping by arresting people for saying they’ll do something when they have no evidence that that person would actually do that. A free society doesn’t arrest someone for saying “I’m going to burn down so-and-so’s house.” It waits until you actually go to so-and-so’s house with a can of petrol, and then arrests you.
- marysol5 2mo agoThey were credible threats though, as the people were doing EXACTLY what she called for
- XorNot 2mo agoSending death threats has never been legal. The statical lie with the UK numbers is the vast majority of cases are about the use of messaging services in domestic violence cases.
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- bombcar 2mo agoIt’s the same problem as amber alerts - the stories you here about are the dramatic stranger danger ones, but the vast majority of the statistics are “boring” custody disputes.
- ceejayoz 2mo ago> A free society doesn’t arrest someone for saying “I’m going to burn down so-and-so’s house.” I feel like it's a significantly freer society when others can't threaten to murder me without consequences.
- marysol5 2mo agoIt's always weird that these "freeze peach absolutism" never seem to notice that death, is the ultimate censorship
- buttercraft 2mo agoThe poster up thread said people were being arrested for "mean tweets" and now you've moved it to "but those death threats weren't serious!" No, the original claim was dishonest bullshit.