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[-] veganzombeh@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's a death threat at all. Guillotines are a metaphor for the working class forcibly taking power away from the ruling elite.

[-] Fisk400@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

It is a guillotine with a reddit head in it and the name spez written on it. Just depicting a guillotine is not a death threats but depicting a person in it that exist in the real world is absolutely a death threats against that person. If that is not a death threat there is no such thing as a death threats on the internet and moderation is dead.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A death threat is something like saying "I'm gonna murder spez". It expresses an intention. An illustration suggesting that someone could be killed does not express any intention to actually kill someone. Furthermore the image could be interpreted in other ways, like saying the user account "spez" should be eliminated, or that that spez is the kind of person who would have been killed had he been around in the French revolutionary period. No reasonable person could believe the people posting those pixels are actually making plans to cut off Steve Huffman's head with a guillotine.

I'm much more concerned about rhetoric that, for example, equates LGBT+ people with groomers, because that shit demonstrably does get people killed, and I've been told numerous times that rhetoric like that doesn't violate any rules. If moderation is dead, that's what killed it.

[-] Fisk400@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

An illustration suggesting that someone could be killed does not express any intention to actually kill someone.

Wow. Brain just turns to literal soup as soon as the hate is directed towards someone you don't like.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So insightful. So persuasive.

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No reasonable person could believe the people posting those pixels are actually making plans to cut off Steve Huffman’s head with a guillotine.

I agree, but the world is provably full of many unreasonable people.

[-] poopman_42069@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Well, fuck em, and fuck spez. People can be unreasonable as they see fit, but I still maintain: Off with his 'ead! Metaphorically, of course

[-] Fog0555@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's the idea behind stochastic terrorism.

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