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Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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'Hoping' someone suffers something isn't a threat though.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:20, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:20, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
In the eyes of the PoPo it is,
It is deemed as threatening behaviour
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:35, Reply)
It is deemed as threatening behaviour
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:35, Reply)
But then it's kind of like a thought crime.
'I hope you get cancer' or 'I hope you die in a plane crash' can't be threatening surely, as they are things over which the sender has no control.
'I hope you get stabbed/raped' is maybe threatening, because it implies the sender might like to do something about it.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:38, Reply)
'I hope you get cancer' or 'I hope you die in a plane crash' can't be threatening surely, as they are things over which the sender has no control.
'I hope you get stabbed/raped' is maybe threatening, because it implies the sender might like to do something about it.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:38, Reply)
So you sayin' I ain't capapble of bringing down a plane or inflicting cancer on someone?
I could do that if I wanted too, if I really want too. There are ways man, a guy like me knows guys, if you know what I mean. I got a Plane Crash Guy AND a Cancer Guy.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:45, Reply)
I could do that if I wanted too, if I really want too. There are ways man, a guy like me knows guys, if you know what I mean. I got a Plane Crash Guy AND a Cancer Guy.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:45, Reply)
It's interesting* to think about what could be used to properly give someone cancer with in a single hit, instead of just increasing the chance of cancer over a long period.
Lots of people think that South American leaders getting cancer is the work of the CIA.
*or not.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:52, Reply)
Exactly
And using your latter example is precisely what happened.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:48, Reply)
And using your latter example is precisely what happened.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:48, Reply)
So saying 'I hope someone completely unconnected to me and not influenced by me in any way freely chooses to rape and kill you"
would be OK?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:54, Reply)
would be OK?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:54, Reply)
Thank you, internet legal man.
Right, I've got some tweeting to do.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:58, Reply)
Right, I've got some tweeting to do.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:58, Reply)
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