“anyone talking about a proposed crime on the Internet fails forever as a criminal”
I realize this isn’t your TRUE objection, just a bit of a tangential “Public Service Announcement”. The real concern is simply PR / our appearance to outsiders, right? But… I’m confused why you feel the need to include such a PSA.
Do we have a serious problem with people saying “Meet under the Lincoln Memorial at midnight, the pass-phrase is Sic semper tyrannis” or “I’m planning to kill my neighbor’s dog, can you please debug my plot, I live in Brooklyn at 123 N Stupid Ave”?
You can use Private Messaging to send me actual examples, without causing a public reputation hit. I can’t recall ever reading anything like that on this site.
Look. He’s a man who’s earning the money by fear mongering. Passably bright which makes it so much worse from moral standpoint. He has opportunity to actually condemn violence. But that would require him to apologize for himself posting very inflammatory statements about other people’s projects, because by the moral standards, those are equally bad. So he chooses to make it abundantly clear it’s only for PR and no not really.
(as on the point, there was a post by someone which can be summarized as “tobacco kills a lot of people, utilitarian bla bla, why not off tobacco executives”)
I realize this isn’t your TRUE objection, just a bit of a tangential “Public Service Announcement”. The real concern is simply PR / our appearance to outsiders, right? But… I’m confused why you feel the need to include such a PSA.
Do we have a serious problem with people saying “Meet under the Lincoln Memorial at midnight, the pass-phrase is Sic semper tyrannis” or “I’m planning to kill my neighbor’s dog, can you please debug my plot, I live in Brooklyn at 123 N Stupid Ave”?
You can use Private Messaging to send me actual examples, without causing a public reputation hit. I can’t recall ever reading anything like that on this site.
Look. He’s a man who’s earning the money by fear mongering. Passably bright which makes it so much worse from moral standpoint. He has opportunity to actually condemn violence. But that would require him to apologize for himself posting very inflammatory statements about other people’s projects, because by the moral standards, those are equally bad. So he chooses to make it abundantly clear it’s only for PR and no not really.
(as on the point, there was a post by someone which can be summarized as “tobacco kills a lot of people, utilitarian bla bla, why not off tobacco executives”)