I can point out one thing that changed in the last 4 years, and it is our President and the atmosphere of vitriol and gaslighting he has created.
Most of these companies were fine to tolerate this on their services when it was just speech, but now that speech has translated into actual violent action it's a different ballgame.
A play on broadway enacting a fantasy of Trump being stabbed, Julius Caesar style by masked men.
Another hollywood personality posting an image of her enacting a mock beheading, complete with blood.
Don't preach about "Threats" and "Violence". If you are in tech, you are intelligent enough to use logic and not emotion.
Logic recognizes that emotion has real power.
Erecting a gallow outside of the Capitol with a mob of angry rioters chanting about hanging Pence isn't really comparable. Those threats should be considered real, not performance art. It's not entertainment, it's real. Pull your head in mate.
Here's documented evidence of violence of an appalling kind outside police precincts and city halls: https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1289093614165831680?lan...
We must draw the line on behavior, not political affiliation. We otherwise risk irreparable harm to the fundamental freedoms we all enjoy.
Who said that?
> Here's documented evidence of violence of an appalling kind outside police precincts and city halls
Burning pigs heads, flags, and spraying monuments does not equal killing police in a riot. The pig head was most likely purchased from a butcher. How is that considered violence?
>Erecting a gallow outside of the Capitol with a mob of angry rioters chanting about hanging Pence isn't really comparable. Those threats should be considered real, not performance art. It's not entertainment, it's real. Pull your head in mate.
I'm linking you to a video showing a mob enacting an act of killing a symbolic cop and literally saying they'll do it and wearing Tshirts with the slogan "Kill Cops" or variants of that phrase.
You may choose to read this comment and instinctively pull up the reply box to try and justify your position and defend it further, but i'd implore you to realize that this is not about you or me. I assume the both of us want what's best for this country and what we're seeing here with two differing standards of judgement and law for two political positions differing only in political affiliation, is not something i'd expect you or anyone as intelligent as someone working in the tech sector to be defending.
Once again, BLM protests to my knowledge did not ever result in LE personnel being murdered. So I can't really see these sorts of things as comparable given on the one hand you have vague threats and on the other hand you have a police being bludgeoned to death. Saying your going to kill police could be protected as free speech as we've already covered; killing police is not.
Also, I find it curious you seem to want to a) take the high ground yet b) only use BLM/antifa examples in your conversation. Finally, your views about the tech sector seem wildly out of touch; you do realise that tech is predominantly a left leaning industry, correct?
Didn’t believe this, searched, found instantly. Not only is this true, it is still on Twitter and has been for years.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1323893513226...
We live in a beautiful country where one can used to be able to speak their minds without fear of intimidation. Seeing the current state of affairs saddens me.
Me too. I didn't say twitter should take down that post. They shouldn't take down anything that isn't outright illegal. They are abusing their power and I hope it bites them in the ass hard.