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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insanitea ago
The MSM is basically pushing anti-white genocide at an alarming rate yet we're the ones making threats? Whatever the TLAs are feeding you is hypocritical bullshit and you know it. You can either stand up to them or let yourself be known as yet another coward.
PuttItOut ago
I think the investors would rather not have me make posts like this if I were to guess. This post is about reality, not being a coward.
insanitea ago
It shouldn't sit right with anyone if they have any interest whatsoever in wanting to decide the type of content that's shared here. You're correct that's about reality but these so-called "threats" (arising from exasperation) are only a thing because of it. Whoever wants to try to paint anyone into a corner in response is not up to any good. They need to grow a spine and stop pushing excuses that lead down a slippery slope. I'm sure you have good intentions for Voat and I doubt you want it to become like reddit but free speech doesn't come with exceptions like that.
PuttItOut ago
But at the same time, abuse is a thing. If we value what we have, as a community, we should protect it as much as reasonably possible.
In an ideal world, we'd police ourselves concerning abuse and call out those who do actually abuse it.
18241858? ago
Would sure suck if we had a group of people with lots of time on their hands, who takes freedom of speech as a challenge, who takes it upon themselves to chase away new users. Like imagine a bunch of redditors, except on Voat. If we had a such group, you'd be the only one who could effectively deal with them.