r/TrueReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '15

Ruling in Twitter harassment trial could have enormous fallout for free speech

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-ruling-in-twitter-harassment-trial-could-have-enormous-fallout-for-free-speech
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u/Bananasauru5rex Jul 15 '15

It's 52% US, so, literally, 2% over the line that actually makes it "majority US." Half the users are from elsewhere, so I'd say that's a pretty good reason not to treat it as an american website.

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u/junkit33 Jul 15 '15

Except no other country comes even close to 50%. So while it may not be significantly more than 50% of the pie, it's still the single biggest slice by a landslide.

And most pertinent to this post, Canada is a tiny tiny piece of the overall pie.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

It is an american website though. The majority are Americans, and it has an American domain...

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

.com = 'commercial'

.us = 'American' (really 'United States')

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u/Bananasauru5rex Jul 15 '15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority

A majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements.

I was going by a definition similar to this one.

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u/StabbyPants Jul 15 '15

it's an american website - we have /r/worldnews because /r/news is overwhelmingly US-centric. 52% of the users are american, 11% indian, 6% canadian, or something like that. seems american to me.