Chill on the "threats" Voat (Voat)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

There has been an increasing number of content that is bordering or crossing the lines concerning making "threats." So much so that we have been formally contacted regarding some content. We are better than this.

I'm not a lawyer, and you're not a lawyer, and it isn't Voat's place to defend illegal content. We don't have a staff to review content and don't have a team of lawyers dedicated to deciding what is and isn't lawful. I'm not also into endlessly debating what is and isn't legal as subjects like this often devolve into when everyone at the party is an "internet expert."

We have to deal with this issue and if content is in the grey area, we are going to remove it upon request. We also have to cooperate with law enforcement, I hope everyone fully understands that we are not attempting to operate outside of the law. Voat's purpose is to provide a collusion and censorship free place for discussion, not taking on a government.

It's easy to avoid this entire area: Word content maturely, avoid implicit and explicit language concerning the involvement of violence and the content won't be in question. Simple, so very simple.

After this post there will most likely be "users" testing this line and hoping we remove their content in order to claim censorship on Voat. This is just how things like this work. Don't fall for this Voat. It would be simply incredible if we just worked together on this instead of the typical shit storm posts like this usually generate.

As a reminder: Voat is for your personal, lawful use. See it here: https://voat.co/help/useragreement

That's all. Thanks for reading. Carry on.

Edit:

ProTip: I decided to post this before anything legal would prevent me from doing so. I have a feeling I know where this is going to lead.

I've also updated the canary to reflect this as well (this may be the last time that little guy gets an update, we will just have to wait and see).

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PuttItOut ago

A US agency?

Yes.

MrDarkWater ago

Are they the "investor" also?

PuttItOut ago

No. Why does everyone think they are pulling the strings behind the scenes? You guys think I've sold out and that is so far from the truth it makes me laugh.

fluhthreeex ago

Possibly because they operate here openly, with free reign, and nothing is done about them.

Also because they have a tendency to fund tech companies, start honeypots, and the fact that you haven't said hello on camera, done an interview with anyone in the press, and no one knows who you are aside from the "name".

european ago

How much can you say about the motivations of the investors? I missed any details of who they are but expect you cannot say much.

PuttItOut ago

They are like minded. Freedom of Speech is important.

watts2db ago

not everyone thinks this including me

zyklon_b ago

if they named specific goats u need let em know on the cool.

lordvain2 ago

I'm not thinking you sold out, more like being forced. This is a great site. Something seems different. If I offend please drop me a line. I want people to think and engage. It's is less like that now. For the first time I have blocked a lot of people for being dicks or just going off topic. There seems to be a lot more immature comments, and I suspect, infiltrators that are here to discredit the place. I'm not blaming you, I am amazed you put up with us. Thanks for that!

Hand_of_Node ago

Something seems different.

Same as after the great 'outage' last year. Lots of new accounts (including this one), and just a different feel to vibe.

lordvain2 ago

Thanks for responding. It's been quiet. I was wondering if I had been shadow banned. Yep, something has changed.

DiscontentedMajority ago

Hey Putt, thanks for keeping it real in the face of ranting assholes.

I'm not sure why people think our benefactor is remotely inclined to reveal themselves and be doxxed and harrassed by every SJW in the world.

PuttItOut ago

It is entirely this. What amazes me is that spectators change their tune when they are the ones on the field.

Not one critic here truly knows what is on the line.

KDs_Other_Burner ago

We're not mind readers, and you're being opaque as fuck.

Whiteflighter ago

Putt's a great man.

common_sense ago

Because half your userbase is retarded and thinks “the Jews” are behind everything.

Diggernicks ago

Those of us sane people know its really the catholics behind everything that need gassing.

CockroachKing ago

As true today as when the Southern Baptists landed at Plymouth Rock, hoping to escape England's oppressive state religion, Catholicism.

Tallest_Skil ago

Why does everyone think they are pulling the strings behind the scenes?

REMINDER THAT THIS IS THE OWNER OF A WEBSITE ON WHICH THE JEWS ARE NAMED.

You guys think I've sold out

We tend not to like surreptition. We're jumpy like that.

big_fat_dangus ago

You gotta remember dude, when r*ddit got pozzed, it didn't happen all at once in one big fell swoop. I happened over a period of several years, in small, incremental steps. Steps like this one. So people who spent those years over there going to point out the similarity.

Personally I don't believe you sold out or got zogged or whatever, but it's easy to understand the people who do.

lord_nougat ago

Incremental steps, and now they mainly take excremental steps.

european ago

Boiling frog metaphor

big_fat_dangus ago

Indeed. The real shitty part of it is, the ostensibly conservative holdout areas are neutered beyond what should even be possible. Remember when t_d got scammed for six figures by some random nigger chick in a MAGA hat? Or the pudgy dope with his obese nigger wife posing with their newborn gape mouthed, cross eyed goblina baby?

Try saying the word "jew" there, in any context.

Not "gas the jews"

Not "fuck the jews"

Not "I don't like the ways in which jews are changing the country"

Just the word "jew" as a communicative. See what happens. What saddens me about rebbit isn't that it's basically the worst that liberal thinking and jewish subversion have to offer, it's the whimpering, mewling, submissive Quasi Modo that remaining conservatives have allowed themselves to become. The only real redpilled shit you're gonna find is in the gaming and cringe subs.

HI_IM_KYLE ago

Speaking of T_D and Jews. I got a 3 day ban yesterday for the exact comment:

"Thank fuck some non boomers on the Donald can realize all these "coincidences". No one gets kicked out of a dozen rentals for no reason, now imagine 100 countries"

This was in regard to a jewess journalist(suprise!) parading as a white and me being pleasantly surprised in the comment threads for once that some of those fuckers in T_D were noticing her (((heritage))). They said I broke rule 3 "No racism or antisemitism" I didn't even mention the bitches race.

So I messaged the mods something along the lines of "Why is this lady white when she's 'self' hating but jewish when she's a vicitm? How in the fuck did I break your rules?" Gotta be atleast one uncucked mod there because I got unbanned and no response to my message.

teamviewer ago

That place isnt for us. I was a daily visitor with an old account, I got fed up with being banned every fucking week and deleted my account. I went on a warpath and deleted all accounts to the sites I used to frequent. The glory days are over. It's time that we all start working on ourselves and getting our futures in order to prepare for whatever bullshit happens.

toobaditworks ago

Protip: lay low for a while or post under another name so that account isn't seen by the mod who tried banning you.

HI_IM_KYLE ago

Yeh, that's the plan. Why does everything have to be controlled opposition....sigh

big_fat_dangus ago

Reminds me of when someone starts shitting on corrupt banking policies or the like, and twitter jews start oy veying about it being anti semetic. Like wait, isn't that an admission that jews and corrupt banking are linked in some significant way...?

That is pretty funny that they banned you just for describing the behavior without naming who was doing it.

HI_IM_KYLE ago

Reminds me of when someone starts shitting on corrupt banking policies or the like, and twitter jews start oy veying about it being anti semetic. Like wait, isn't that an admission that jews and corrupt banking are linked in some significant way...?

You mean like this http://archive.is/Zzguy ?

Written by a literal Rabbi, the meme's write themselves at this point.

That is pretty funny they banned you just for describing the behavior without naming who was doing it.

When I saw two of the OG mods being slowly replace due to "personal issues" I figured this is how the sub would end up. The new mods are steering the goy at TD the way they want them to go, just like Kushner with Trump(I do think he was genuine at the beginning). The only mods that ever comment on the sub are the old mods, never the new ones. I wonder why,

Diggernicks ago

Right, just like breaking a horse

First you strap a blanket on it back, it fights a bit but eventually settles down after a while.

Then a saddle, same deal it may take a little longer for it to accept the straps and weight.

Then you add the weight of a man and bit and bridle and the slavery, err training is complete.

lord_nougat ago

One you lock the target

Two you bait the line

Three you slowly spread the net

and four you catch your man

PuttItOut ago

You're right. I just think the past is the best predictor of the future, and my past has been consistent concerning Voat.

Even with this said, a healthy level of distrust is a good thing concerning important matters.

lord_nougat ago

That sounds sensible.

But I don't trust it.

PuttItOut ago

Neither do I. They told me to say this. Or else. /s

This is a joke!

european ago

@kevdude

BlackRiflezCoffeeCo ago

Is it?

lord_nougat ago

*Wink

*nod.

The_Ghost ago

You still haven’t specified what counts as a threat.

MrDarkWater ago

Why does everyone think...

just spitballing, queer. calm down, otherwise you look suspect.

Whiteflighter ago

He already confirmed that he and @Atko remain majority holders.

Gorillion ago

I want to believe. But Atko posted the exact same "I love you guyz" Christmas or NYE post two years in a row after he departed. Felt like a lazy copy paste by an agency intern left to do a shit-kicker's job on a major holiday while everyone else was out having a good time.

Whiteflighter ago

Then he came back to fix a problem.

It seemed like Atko pretty much owned it all then gave putt some for taking over.

symantec ago

Jesus, this is the only place on the internet you can call the lead chief of the entire website a queer and not get your shit deleted and your account banned. At least that's going for us.

ZeroFuggzGiven ago

Putt is strong with the bantz.

watts2db ago

very true

MrDarkWater ago

hah, that's right, and I'm also just an asshole.

PuttItOut ago

I wouldn't have it any other way (the shit talking). If politicians faced their constituency directly in the way I have to with Voat, the world would likely be a very different place.

BigFatDaddy ago

I would totally voat for you as Fuhrer.

ZeroFuggzGiven ago

I like you more every day.

watts2db ago

that is absolutely the truth

Vindicator ago

I do believe one of them has been :-)

MrDarkWater ago

Right on, man. It's great here.