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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GapingAnus ago
And there's the death knell for the site.
I've had it. I'm switching sides. Everyone knows the overly vulgar and violent posts are blue checkmarks fishing for something they can write a hit-piece about or random lefties false-flagging something they can report. Your average voater is an internet tough-guy constantly posting some variant of "They'd better not do that when I'm around" and nervously polishing his firearms in preparation for a revolution that will never come. There is nobody with a shred of capability for violence here.
The left is so "weak" yet they chase anyone not 100% on their side from site to site, have payment processors deny services to people opposing them, ruin lives, get people fired and, now, even manage to get people kicked out of their actual fucking banks. They're so "weak" yet they literally assault people with impunity and are defended by law enforcement and public officials.
Meanwhile, the "right" has achieved sweet fuck all except to fall for the Q-larp and Clownworld memes which only serve to pacify and sedate gullible boomers and millennials respectively into inaction as the Titanic is sinking around them. So much as sneeze in the direction of some antifa faggot and your life is effectively over and you'll get deplatformed from every service and you become permanently unemployable.
And now this. An official "you're on notice" which is usually the first step before we start seeing blue-haired trannies as mods everywhere doxing and subverting everything until the site is as shit as every other site once they get their claws into it.
I'm done. The left won. Time to join the winning team.
albatrosv15 ago
So what's your first step? Become transgender, i hope?
GapingAnus ago
It would markedly increase my social capital while still retaining marginally better reproductive capacity than the average voater.