Politics and moderation

[curl-6]

Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

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.

Exact quote:.

"And they call me an extremist for wanting to blow up AI data centers."

No hoping, no wishing.  He clearly states he wants to blow up data centers, which is a call for domestic terrorism.  

So let us keep it real and be honest about what he said.

I was referring back to his original post on the matter in the general section, that specific one passed me by.

This one's more borderline, though again there's a difference between wanting to do something and intending to do it, people say all kinds of stuff like "man I wanna punch my mother-in-law" without having any actual willingness to do so. 

I'll leave it to the mods to decide on this one.