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Elon Musk and JK Rowling could be handed five-year sentences for cyberbullying

by joejohnson on 8/15/24, 8:51 PM with 8 comments

• by ZeroGravitas on 8/16/24, 11:48 AM

  I wonder if adding a fraction of a second delay to posting a tweet for every follower you have would help?

  You could put up a little message, with an AI crafted hint text:

  You're about to accuse someone of something terrible to X million people, we've given you X minutes to confirm that you have done the slightest bit of research to confirm your facts and check you want to continue.

  You have deleted X tweets in the last year, and been sued for Y of them, would you like to pre-delete this one?

• by beryilma on 8/15/24, 8:57 PM

  There is absolutely zero chance that either of them will go to prison on this matter. Billionaires don't go to prison for stuff like this. If anything, it will be settled for a sum of money.

• by localfirst on 8/15/24, 9:32 PM

  What is going in the UK?

  if the need for diversity and tolerance warrants censorship , financial ruin and threat of prison then was it even genuine in the first place?

  or was it's politicization simply to serve those that seeks to benefit from this absolutist policy?

  such extreme measures only increase hatred and intolerance for the weaponized subject and surely not benefit those that throw support for it.

• by _yid9 on 8/15/24, 10:35 PM

  Civilization: claims open to debate or ridicule.

  Science: claims open to debate or ridicule based on evidence.

  Religion: claims open to debate or ridicule based on beliefs; faith open to debate.

  Cult: claims may not be rejected; faith may not be debated nor ridiculed.