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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NotHereForPizza ago
Can we finally get to the bottom of who ever it was that threatened @srayzie so they can finally quit trying to fucking frame me so that no one listens to what I say?
Also, are we going to get you, Putt, to condemn people like @TexasVet, @tendiesonfloor, etc. Who are promoting violence nearly daily? We all know FEDs post here regularly, whether it be blaming X group for Y problem, promoting violence like mentioned before, or LARPing as Nazis so people won't take Voat seriously, but good fuck this is happening more and more and there's no way you're naive enough to let someone convince you these problems won't both persist and amplify.
I know I haven't always been very upfront with you, Putt, and especially plenty of the user base here, but if anyone thinks I'm someone other than just a normal guy who's unendingly concerned with free speech and the expansion of Truth, you've let some idiot here convince you that I'm something that I'm certainly not. Sure, some of us here disagree about some things (which is entirely healthy you morans), but that doesn't mean I'm a shill or some disinfo agent. Obviously I'm not always honest, but I think if we're going to put me and others like I've mentioned on a scale, I think being dishonest to protect myself or market information or some other variant comes out pretty low on the scale of probability to cause future issues, especially if we compare what I've done to promoting violence, trying to set narratives (what's the point of doing that in an echo chamber anyway?), or LARPing as things that disgust your average user of these kinds of sites entirely on purpose, whether it be to prevent honest perspectives from forming about this place or to specifically establish the user base here as extreme so when someone inevitably frames someone on this site and thereby the site (or owner(s)) itself they'll be easily condemned so that freedoms can be encroached upon.
I'm tired of seeing you let all of these things go unnoticed, Putt. I obviously appreciate your giving us this platform to use, but you avoiding or ignoring these things, if it hasn't already, ought to make your user base extremely paranoid. There's no way you don't know plenty of shills and FEDs occupy this place and while my position here is meaningless and therefore my demands have and likely will go unnoticed, I can't stay silent about this shit much longer and especially in a public way with you.
srayzie ago
Do you ever shut the fuck up? When you run your own free speech forum, then you can talk. You don’t even moderate a subverse but think you’re so smart. @Puttitout does a great job and all you do is complain. You ping him over stupid shit as if he has nothing else to do. You are a proven shill who should just fade away like some of your alts.
fluhthreeex ago
Proven shill/troll/ZOG/intel account... lol, it's admitted as much. These clowns usually cycle accounts when they self-dox. Surprised SaneGoat hasn't gone poof as well.
srayzie ago
Heck yeah they cycle accounts!