People can't help themselves.
The fact of the matter is that even if the messages are real nobody knows:
A - Who sent them.
B - Why they were sent.
C - The mental state of the persons who sent them.
So all this bullshit about "imagine being so mad about a videogame" or "imagine being such an incel" is exactly as you say. Virtue signalling.
If I'm playing an online game and some little twat says "I'm going to kill you and your whole family" I don't really think much of it.
Why? Because I don't know who that is, where they live or why they are saying it.
For some it's considered a "death threat" and so is the most forbidden of forbidden online actions.
It ain't a fucking Death Threat though and pretending like that's true is so fucking disingenous.
Now, if your fucking neighbor confronts you in the street and says "I'm going to kill you and your whole family" then NOW you're looking at a genuine and fucking serious problem.
This shit is tiresome. Yes whoever sent this too her is in need to a stern talking to. That's it.
We literally don't know anything else.
So all these morons wanking themselves off thinking about "angry nerds" and whatnot are doing so for their own gratification.
For all anyone knows this was some idiot kid trying to offend her because they think that's amusing.
You'd have to a be real dumb cunt to believe that someone who is literally enraged about the TLOU2 is a legitimate threat to her safety and/or wellbeing.
She's posting this stuff for the attention, plain and simple, and the "imagine being so angry about a woman online" crew don't seem to realize they are being played like a fiddle here.
Look, no offense but I'm tired of "mental state" almost being used as a sword to defend people of their shitty behavior. The truth is there are
PLENTY of people with similar mental conditions who don't send a message hoping a journalist gets raped for seemingly liking a game they hate over political reasons.
At
some point, even with a person having potential mental problems, personal responsibility HAS to be held to them, otherwise you lose any standard for pursuing justice. You can look at virtually any criminal ever and figure there is some mental problem they've had which contributed to their criminal deeds...it doesn't mean you let them walk.
Now what's the proper justice for the people who send some of the most vile responses to her? Is it to cancel them? No, not really. But for some of these people a stern talking to isn't going to work, either, especially if they're adults. Who's going to talk to them, someone over the internet? That won't have any effect. Someone in their personal life? Well guess what, now you gotta tell that person (if you can even do that) what this other person did and somehow think they'd care. A professional psychiatrist? I mean if we're acknowledging the person might have mental health issues that's probably the best bet, but a psychiatrist isn't going to talk to that person for free, are you gonna front the bill?
So "stern talking to" doesn't really mean anything in terms of an appropriate measure of justice here. Seeing how nowadays it's too easy to get personal information on people (especially those you might hate) and get the law irresponsibly involved (in the form of swatting), etc., unfortunately I think there might be grounds in the future for reform across the board by these social media platforms regards how they hold users accountable for the content they post. I value free speech absolutely, but unfortunately abuse of that online in terns of negative conduct combined with anonymity and (therefore) lack of serious legal repercussions for troubling speech in a public space,
Think of it this way: if some nut is in public at a restaurant and they suddenly shout out they're gonna beat the shit out of a fucking cunt and hope she gets raped, loud enough so other people in the restaurant could hear....what do you think the response in that situation would be? We can pretend everyone else would be on their smartphones and plugging their ears to not hear, but the cashier and cooks would still hear it and likely confront the person shouting, causing the disturbance, and very likely get police involved, too, if not at the very least try keeping the victim away from the assaulter.
So why do we pretend it's supposed to be different online, when someone sending a message like that on a public platform like Twitter is essentially the equivalent of an idiot shouting hateful language in a public venue like a restaurant? Especially if the person who posts those kind of comments continuously does it (you can't necessarily prove they don't unless you know their post history, but they could also have done so under different accounts)? You think a "stern talking to" is going to do much of anything in that case? There's a reason these websites have TOS and code of conduct policies in the first place; even online some type of law and order in a public forum has to be maintained, even if it's not standardized across all public forums exactly.
Realize that my comments are only about public forums/spaces; if it's a private forum or server, especially one wherein members pay to get into and know off the bat what they're getting into...then I feel those should be treated differently. They're basically the equivalent of someone engaging in the privacy of their own home. If there's a problem with harassment in that space, then the onus is on the victim to turn to an outside source which, for something like Discord say, would be the management staff. It's their service, so whether you like it or not they have final say over what is and isn't tolerated. BUT, I feel they should respect the privacy of users in their own private servers and only take action when those seemingly going under some type of abuse on those forums (or notices potentially TOS-violating action occurring) reports it to the staff. If it turns out to be literally illegal activity, that's when the actual law can get involved.
Our first white knight. Didn't take long.
Sending herself some mean messages so she can get victimhood points, stir up some drama to possibly grow her channel is a shitty thing to do.
Do you have proof or is this just a conspiracy theory your asshole farted out? Because it sure does stink of bullshit.
"Guilty until proven innocent". That's what this is. That's what you're doing here. Keep that in mind.
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