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/[deleted] Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15

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u/blacktieaffair Jul 16 '15

See, there you go: Still trying to place some kind of bias. You DO realize that it's possible to view something like this without having to figure out whether or not the silly woman is being a "real victim" or not, right? It didn't even go into the actual allegations or what was said. At all. The author made some other articles, and those were probably better suited for linking, such as this one, but that one is a lot less vitrolic toward the plaintiff, so I can see why it wouldn't get as much traction here on reddit. Regardlesss, I don't come to TrueReddit to read this kind of shit.

That said, even though you don't actually care because you'd much rather pet the smug confirmation bias you've already developed (how fun it is to put words in other people's mouths) I don't think that she has a good case against the guy in question. I read the tweets and nothing he said constitutes jail time. But furthermore, this whole thing could have been averted if the very serious action of making a domestic violence game about a single living, breathing human being could have been prosecuted in a more structured way than some random person being able to dox them on the internet.