Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I mean even IRL, people talk so much crap who knows what’s actually true. Imagine if we locked up everyone for what they say. The “film industry” is insulting for even trying to push people into guilt by nothing more than what they type on a website.

    • EmperorHenry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Some people in the UK have been locked up for making offensive jokes.

      I’m in favor of free speech for everyone, even the shitty right-wingers I hate. The solution to bad speech is good speech, not censorship. Not corporate censorship, not government censorship, not corporate censorship on the order of government censorship.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think that’s different. You’re held accountable to what you say and yelling bomb on a plane should subject you to a lengthy trial. That’s not the world I’m talking about.

        What I’m talking about is getting online and saying “man I just killed like 3 people lol” and being arrested for it. Without proof 3 people even were killed. Is it cool to say such things? No. Could someone be punished for it? Sure. But that’s not the same as being arrested for murder.

        I want a world where facts are still king and despite it all, tangible evidence exists of your actions.

        • EmperorHenry@lemmy.worldEnglish
          47·
          1 year ago

          There’s a difference between causing a panic like that and sending mean tweets or telling an offensive joke