FTC VS Microsoft: Judge's Son Works for Microsoft - Issue?

[Ryuu96]

LurkerJ said:

Ryuu96 said:

You can think the Earth is flat, it doesn't make it true.

There is 0 evidence for his claim, so yes, if someone keeps making a claim about something as a statement of fact with 0 evidence then we will call it out and if he keeps trying to cause drama about it (especially when it involves actual people) we will clamp down on it.

I can lock this thread because it's nothing but a silly conspiracy theory that the judge is biased because her son works at Microsoft, we don't need this level of low quality threads on this forum that lack basic knowledge about how the world works.

It causes unnecessary drama and could also lead to attacks towards individuals (i.e. in this case, people start attacking the judges credibility), not necessarily from people in this forum but maybe someone sees it, spreads it on Twitter, another spreads it, then people start attacking the judge based on something so utterly stupid.

Not to mention the clickbait..."SCANDAL?!?!" Lol.

I don't feel strongly about how you want to handle this. But wouldn't a title edit is better than an outright lock? The majority won't support the claim of this being a scandal (lol), and the few who believe it is, might end up changing their minds reading the reasonable counter arguments.

That's an interesting perspective, that now has me thinking, Lol.

My issue is mostly that it's a bit of a low quality thread, not only damaging to our credibility as a website but also feeling like it's an attack towards the judge, I don't want to help spread this conspiracy theory that she's biased and cause others to attack her, if this wasn't about an individual but something else (like flat earth) then I might let people get their ribbing in first, Lmao, but I would still lock it later because I'd rather just stamp the conspiracy theories out.

It's mostly that it's a person here that I am so reactive, even though nobody here may do it, I imagine a lurker seeing this thread (some console warrior) and then spreading it on Twitter, then another dude spreads it, and another, then then we have a bunch of angry console warriors attacking the judge on Twitter over some stupid conspiracy theory but if I'm being honest, they're doing that already, so I guess the argument is do we leave conspiracy theory threads up.

Maybe I'll change the title while we have this conversation, Lol.