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Sherm128 posted...

Good. Telling someone to kill themselves should be considered murder, especially if the person follows through with it.

I used to play a lot of FPS games. The phrase "kys" (kill yourself) is used a lot during trashtalk. It is trashtalk. Whether or not you think I participated in it is up to you. Assume I have. I have witnessed more serious threats like "I'm going to hunt you down IRL kid" or "You better watch yourself the next time you go out". Using "kys" does not excuse the aggressor from wrongdoing, but grow some skin/stop playing violent multiplayer games/mute the other person - the web is full of empty threats and macho posturing, simply because it's the internet. (A more legitimate reason is simply because one of the greatest strengths of the internet is (non-)anonymity.)

While social media (including texting) is a different context, especially where this new rule can and should be enforced, some platforms that offer more anonymity should be entirely exempt because of the inherent tone in context: i.e. in a YouTube comments section, a non-anonymous user posts some questionable opinion, an anonymous user replies "kys nerd". Are we really going to hold that anonymous troll accountable for his/her actions, or should we do what we should always do with trolls: ignore them?

Or have we just come to a grand conclusion that Sherm has basically trolled the entire thread from post #2 because he equates "drove someone to murder through repeated torment and telling something to kill themselves multiple times like Emperor Palpatine saying 'do it'" to "telling someone to kill themselves on a random, brief encounter"?
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