• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Do you not think if someone encouraged a murderer they should be held accountable? It’s not everyone they interacted with, there has to be reasonable suspicion they contributed.

    Also I’m pretty sure this is nothing new

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Depends on what you mean by “encouraged”. That is going to need a very precise definition in these cases.

      And the point isn’t that people shouldn’t be held accountable, it’s that there are a lot of gray areas here, we need to be careful how we navigate them. Irresponsible rulings or poorly implemented laws can destabilize everything that makes the internet worthwhile.

    • Minotaur@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I didn’t say that at all, and I think you know I didn’t unless you really didn’t actually read my comment.

      I am not talking about encouraging someone to murder. I specifically said that in overt cases there is some common sense civil responsibility. I am talking about the potential for the the police to break down your door because you Facebook messaged a guy you’re friends with what your favorite local gun store was, and that guy also happens to listen to death metal and take antidepressants and the state has deemed him a risk factor level 3.

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        8 months ago

        I must have misunderstood you then, but this still seems like a pretty clear case where the platforms, not even people yet did encourage him. I don’t think there’s any new precedent being set here

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          8 months ago

          Rulings often start at the corporation / large major entity level and work their way down to the individual. Think piracy laws. At first, only giant, clear bootlegging operations were really prosecuted for that, and then people torrenting content for profit, and then people torrenting large amounts of content for free - and now we currently exist in an environment where you can torrent a movie or whatever and probably be fine, but also if the criminal justice system wants to they can (and have) easily hit anyone who does with a charge for tens of thousands of dollars or years of jail time.

          Will it happen to the vast majority of people who torrent media casually? No. But we currently exist in an environment where if you get unlucky enough or someone wants to punish you for it enough, you can essentially have this massive sentence handed down to you almost “at random”.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Is there currently a national crisis of Jacobins kidnapping oligarchs and beheading them in public I am unaware of?

      • rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com
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        8 months ago

        Literally no one suggested that end users should be arrested for jokes on the internet. Fuck off with your attempts at trying to distract from the real issue.