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Conservative Gay Purdue Student Under Investigation

He posted an anti-BLM Facebook message and is being called to account.

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/univ...k-lives-matter-faces-expulsion-death-threats/
Face Book...if a page doesn't have a death threat or crazy comment on it, it's only because it hasn't got enough views. Death threats are ridiculous and Face Book should terminate that account and if we can track down who posted it they should get a nice little police visit/scare. But otherwise, it's just another day on the interwebs where people say ridiculously nasty things just cuz it's anonymous.

Take a look at any Yahoo news article...it could be about puppies and kittens, and inevitably one of the comments will be racist, sexist, or something crazy negative and crazy unrelated.

Oh and I don't think he should be expelled. The whole point of being young is to spend some time saying ridiculous things.
 
Well, saying ridiculous things is not the exclusive province of the young.
it's not, but they own a lot of real estate in that province.

I don't think he should face any repercussions except whatever social approbation comes his way.
 
Face Book...if a page doesn't have a death threat or crazy comment on it, it's only because it hasn't got enough views. Death threats are ridiculous and Face Book should terminate that account and if we can track down who posted it they should get a nice little police visit/scare. But otherwise, it's just another day on the interwebs where people say ridiculously nasty things just cuz it's anonymous.

Take a look at any Yahoo news article...it could be about puppies and kittens, and inevitably one of the comments will be racist, sexist, or something crazy negative and crazy unrelated.

Oh and I don't think he should be expelled. The whole point of being young is to spend some time saying ridiculous things.

My wife and I were talking about this the other night. Is it even possible to blacklist people from the internet? I know it sounds crazy, but what if every human being had a login to access the internet, and if they were found to have posted threatening/nasty things on FB, twitter, comments, they would lose the use of the internet. I think the world would be a better place without the hateful things said on the internet. I was all for freedom of speech, but the internet has ruined it.
 
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My wife and I were talking about this the other night. Is it even possible to blacklist people from the internet? I know it sounds crazy, but what if every human being had a login to access the internet, and if they were found to have posted threatening/nasty things on FB, twitter, comments, they would use the use of the internet. I think the world would be a better place without the hateful things said on the internet. I was all for freedom of speech, but the internet has ruined it.
eh, people were caning each other over whether to continue slavery in the Senate right before the Civil War...the past isn't as bright and shiny as we remember.

I'm not defending that the internet can be a cesspool, but it's merely that, a pool, a reflection. People have been nasty and insipid and hateful for all of human history. Better that they have an outlet for those thoughts I suppose then the alternatives.
 
eh, people were caning each other over whether to continue slavery in the Senate right before the Civil War...the past isn't as bright and shiny as we remember.

I'm not defending that the internet can be a cesspool, but it's merely that, a pool, a reflection. People have been nasty and insipid and hateful for all of human history. Better that they have an outlet for those thoughts I suppose then the alternatives.

Thanks for the response, and I agree, but don't you think it is better to leave hateful people to their own devices, holed up in their shanties, without the access to release their hate to the world? Yes, I'm saying it would be easier to avoid/ignore their hate. Some people will never change, and we can take away their hate filled voices on the internet.
 
Thanks for the response, and I agree, but don't you think it is better to leave hateful people to their own devices, holed up in their shanties, without the access to release their hate to the world? Yes, I'm saying it would be easier to avoid/ignore their hate. Some people will never change, and we can take away their hate filled voices on the internet.
Hate always gets released, the question is, how and who does it affect? Or effect? Potato potato.

You can't bottle it up because free speech, and what you and I agree is hate speech might not be what someone else thinks is, or vice versa.
 
Thanks for the response, and I agree, but don't you think it is better to leave hateful people to their own devices, holed up in their shanties, without the access to release their hate to the world? Yes, I'm saying it would be easier to avoid/ignore their hate. Some people will never change, and we can take away their hate filled voices on the internet.
Pretending it doesn't exist doesn't make it so, and I'd rather have it out there, able to be combatted by the rest of the world, than have it holed up long enough to cause a problem some other way. Every once in a while, people get their horizons expanded through thoughtful conversation.

Plus we stand up for people's rights to say stupid shit in this country.
 
Plus we stand up for people's rights to say stupid shit in this country.
True, as well we should since popular speech doesn't need First Amendment protection. But, FB, Twitter, and other social media sites are not state actors. They can and do censor speech they don't like, which is fully within their rights. And, while I agree that there are many disturbing things posted on the internet, I'd rather know that stuff is out there than be lulled into a false sense that everything's hunky dory.
 
eh, people were caning each other over whether to continue slavery in the Senate right before the Civil War...the past isn't as bright and shiny as we remember.

I'm not defending that the internet can be a cesspool, but it's merely that, a pool, a reflection. People have been nasty and insipid and hateful for all of human history. Better that they have an outlet for those thoughts I suppose then the alternatives.
This is spot on.
 
My wife and I were talking about this the other night. Is it even possible to blacklist people from the internet? I know it sounds crazy, but what if every human being had a login to access the internet, and if they were found to have posted threatening/nasty things on FB, twitter, comments, they would lose the use of the internet. I think the world would be a better place without the hateful things said on the internet. I was all for freedom of speech, but the internet has ruined it.
is this serious? for the first time in human history a single person can get their opinion out to the world, not the state view, or church view, or media view, and you want to censor it? this country is over.
 
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