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This sounds bizarre and I need more context and information. Why is your only link a yt video? That shit takes forever to load.
It's only a link to a YouTube video because it's the only place it exists. Which should raise some serious warning bells. No Liberal or Conservative news outlet has anything about this.
I'm not saying it's fake, but it's only on this one site, by this one person, who supposedly has a huge history in news media who wouldn't have a hard time getting it into any other news channel (even ones that could link to her) seems... Odd. But hey, don't forget to join her Patreon page.
Yeah, it sounded like the detectives(...?) were going to lay out some of the details of the complaint, but she get-the-fuck-out'd them before they got there.
It matters quite a lot IMO what she was doing. Are we talking about dozens of harrassing/threatening DMs on multiple platforms? Or are we talking about heated comments on public posts? She said "I never threatened anyone," etc. but that's what they all say. I'm not suggesting she's lying, there's just no signal.
I hope we get to see the posts in question at some point.
She said she commented on their posts ( that she claimed were anti muslim). if they don't want her commenting you just block the person. But yeah, we need more info. However cops showing up based on a complaint when you have done nothing illegal is a bit thoughtpolicey
Yeah, I share your feeling that it feels thought-policey and troubling. But my guard is just a little bit up in the other direction too, maybe because I saw this right after this thread, where a guy was in an online argument with a woman and essentially threatened her family by driving to another city, finding her dad in the hospital, and taking a selfie next to him... Then he posted it in a public comment thread where she would see it.
With that information, it's clear that he's the bad guy... But I can see how if we just heard his side, with all of the condemning details omitted, it could be super easy to get baited into reacting like "Wtf, you can't even take a selfie in this country anymore?"
His defense was "I was merely trying to win an online argument," which thankfully, the judge thought was nonsense. I don't think it was dystopian for the cops to show up at his house and say "You've done some harmful things online, and here are some consequences." (I actually don't know if cops showed up or he just got a court date or what, but you know what I mean)
So there are many ways that this story isn't equivalent to that story, but I was already primed to be like... "Oh okay well what were the posts?" The window of potential reactions is pretty wide based on the answer to that.
I agree with you, I'm also missing context. I agree this looks very fishy for the police to be paying her a visit with the "you are walking a line" comment, but without knowing all the details, I'm reluctant to jump into definitive conclusions. I really hope this story gets picked up by media so we at least get that side as well, however imperfect it might be.
Because YouTube is one of the more effective places to spread propaganda.