Who made a credible direct and explicit threat?
That said. In person you can tell a threat better. Online it’s very hard to discern what’s what. On reddit otherwise nice people will say rather nasty things that they don’t actually mean and will not act on. It will take time, generations, for this to suss out. Psychologically it’s quite different.
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I am not a pacifist. But I think there is something to be learned from them. You have to believe that in the long run good arguments will win over poor ones. That said, in life nothing is sure.
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No, but I know there is no perfect answer or one that works in all circumstances. Yet, I feel that allowing political censorship is dangerous. All kinds of “isms” love controlling speech, especially political speech. It’s dangerous to find comfort in that corner.
Thanks for the answers.