Taking this post in the way it was intended i.e. ‘are there any reasons why such a policy would make people more likely to attribute violent intent to LW’ I can think of one:
The fact that this policy is seen as necessary could imply that LW has a particular problem with members advocating violence. Basically, I could envision the one as saying: ‘LW members advocate violence so often that they had to institute a specific policy just to avoid looking bad to the outside world’
And, of course, statements like ‘if a proposed conspiratorial crime were in fact good you shouldn’t talk about it on the internet’ make for good out-of-context excerpts.
The fact that this policy is seen as necessary could imply that LW has a particular problem with members advocating violence. Basically, I could envision the one as saying: ‘LW members advocate violence so often that they had to institute a specific policy just to avoid looking bad to the outside world’
I don’t think that’s probable. There are many online forum that have forum rules that prevent those discussions.
Taking this post in the way it was intended i.e. ‘are there any reasons why such a policy would make people more likely to attribute violent intent to LW’ I can think of one:
The fact that this policy is seen as necessary could imply that LW has a particular problem with members advocating violence. Basically, I could envision the one as saying: ‘LW members advocate violence so often that they had to institute a specific policy just to avoid looking bad to the outside world’
And, of course, statements like ‘if a proposed conspiratorial crime were in fact good you shouldn’t talk about it on the internet’ make for good out-of-context excerpts.
See also xkcd.
I don’t think that’s probable. There are many online forum that have forum rules that prevent those discussions.