• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ok, I wasn’t really that surprised when a bunch of users who were calling for more murder were getting their comments deleted. That’s a bit much and users need to know how to be more vague with their threats, especially with web crawls recording and indexing everything we say online…

    But censoring the discussion of a real legal process is crazy. Well, I’ve made a few comments regarding jury nullification. I’ll report if they get deleted.

    edit: It’s been about 20 hours and none of my Jury Nullification comments have remained. I have a feeling that the .world mods figured out that that discussion was fine or the deleted comments has other reasons to be deleted.

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      4 days ago

      Aye. There are legal rammifications to hosting comments trying to incite violence. There are none to a) pointing and laughing, or even celebrating the death of person who has done great harm to others, or b) discussing the possible outcomes of a still hypothetical jury trial.

      Trying to silence the latter is stifling legal free speech.