Politics and moderation

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

Calling for people to be murdered? Yeah, that's banworthy, completely agreed.

But saying a building should be destroyed, specifically a building that's being used for purposes harmful to society? Nah, I don't think that's banworthy, it's a fucking building, it doesn't have feelings.

It's worth nothing also that he didn't actually say "I am going to blow up a data centre", he just said he thinks it should happen, which isn't strictly a threat or statement of intent.

And let's be real here, captainexplosion, despite his name, isn't going to be blowing up anything, nor will anybody here. He's just venting.

Yes let us be real.  Hs said he "wants" to blow up data centers.  HE DID NOT SAY WISH OR HOPE.

sorry but you are third person to say this.  So yes, let us be real with what he said.  He is also calling for more Luigi style assassination, after saying he wanted to blow me up and after saying he wanted to stab Leynos.

And I have zero idea what his plans are and capabilities.  What I do know is every time there is an active shooter the signs were there, people just ignored them.  

Terrorism is used to incite fear.  Blowing up building would incite fear, so still terrorism.

Also, people um, work in those building, including nigjt time security guards. 

Calls for violence, currently, are acceptable on VG.   Hopefully Shadow fixes this. Because it is disgusting, gross, disgraceful and ugly.

I can't recall the specific post but I don't remember him specifically saying he actually "wants" to, just that he thinks it should happen. That's less "I intend to do this" and more "if it happened, I'd be good with it." I mean, speaking personally, I wouldn't shed a tear if a data centre were to be burned down, but I absolutely do not intend to burn one down myself.

Destroying a building the size of a data centre is an incredibly difficult operation for an individual to pull off, vastly harder than just harming a person, the chances he actually intends to try, much less succeed, seem highly unlikely.

His calls for violence against people were deserving of moderation, absolutely. Property damage doesn't necessitate harming people though; speaking purely hypothetically, you could technically mean doing it when the building's empty/warn people to evacuate.

To be controversial myself however, the purpose of terrorism, as you say, is to incite terror in a population. Conversely, I suspect a lot of the population would actually be pretty happy about a data centre being put out of commission rather than terrorised.