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So Yoel posted a link to an article published in Salon titled "Student-teacher sex: When is it OK?" which discusses the broad strokes of a legal case and is in no way advocating on behalf of pedophiles. In fact, the case discussed could not be pedophilic because the student in question was 18.

In your mind this means that Yoel maybe doesn't deserve to be threatened, but still he should have expected this?

So how about for yourself? You posted a link to a link to an innocuous article titled "Student-teacher sex: When is it OK?" What were you thinking?

He didn't publish it. He tweeted a link to a news article about a court case, in which it was argued that a student-teacher relationship was unethical even though the student was over 18 (the court leaned toward yes, because teachers have power over students while they're enrolled at a school).

Would you want me to judge your character based on the headlines of news stories you submit to HN?

If I was debating or even considering the ethics of sex with a student I would expect people to get upset, yes. It would require a severe disconnect from reality for me to think that they wouldn’t.

Roth was not debating or considering the ethics of sex with a student (falsely implying one of his students), he tweeted a link to a news article about a court case involving unusual circumstances.

Musk followed up the initial tweet (from a third party) by tweeting a page from Roth's dissertation, in which he wrote that services like Grindr (a gay dating app) should proactively develop online safety policies because it was very predictable that gay teens who use the internet might attempt to use the app. 'Underage people might use your adult dating app, so you should plan ahead for that' is not promoting the idea of underage people using the app any more than 'buy a fire extinguisher for your home' is advocating for arson.

That's an incredibly deliberate misreading of that, but go off.

How many pages of the paper have you read? Just the title? Do you even know what it concludes?

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