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Re: Y Combinator blacklists founder of Gab.ai

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1) Interesting that you mention doxxing in the context of Chuck Johnson, since when he was banned for his tweet about Deray, he had already posted home addresses of two NYTimes reporters. That both a) indicates that he was a bad actor, and b) colors how you might interpret comments about "taking out" someone. It doesn't turn it into a threat of violence, but it does make it look a lot more like using Twitter to organ…

McKesson chose to interpret it as an open death threat, it obviously wasn't but nobody was going to call him on it, and it got Johnson booted off Twitter. I see your point, but that wasn't how McKesson and his fans used it. Regarding the Spike Lee thing, I'd say he got a pass because he's a celebrity, but who knows. This is kind of my point. You have to piece together pattern out of Johnson's activity on and off Twit…

The oddest part is, IIRC, it wasn't even Zimmerman's address, but some uninvolved person.

Re: Y Combinator blacklists founder of Gab.ai

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post #91
post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

McKesson chose to interpret it as an open death threat, it obviously wasn't but nobody was going to call him on it, and it got Johnson booted off Twitter. I see your point, but that wasn't how McKesson and his fans used it. Regarding the Spike Lee thing, I'd say he got a pass because he's a celebrity, but who knows. This is kind of my point. You have to piece together pattern out of Johnson's activity on and off Twit…

The oddest part is, IIRC, it wasn't even Zimmerman's address, but some uninvolved person.

This is a big reason why nobody should do it, regardless of how "righteous" their outrage is. It ends up hurting uninvolved people.
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