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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SmockingGun ago
I tried warning you that the assholes from qrv and theawakning would do this. They did it on reddit to justify purge here, and they planned on doing it here to shut you down.
If they cant police themselves now, how different will it be after your post especially if their intention was to shut down voat from the get-go?
Remember the NeonRevolt thread I posted @puttitout?
Only way to ensure this doesn't happen again is having supermod that isn't compromised police content on each board, or if users post content that a mod has to sign off on it making them responsible for the content on each board. Sure it sucks they have to wait for mod approval, but what else is there to prevent this?
Mumbleberry ago
It was the bot the reposts from 8chan.
NelleBeane ago
The first amendment. Most of those posts come from people paid to make QRV / voat / etc. look bad and censor real information. Unless voat is in danger of not being hosted (on a private company's server), we should all chip in to fight censorship by the feds in court.
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