--- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
I think it's too scary to be tolerated, if someone
declares
themselves
to be a "Nazi", especially when publicly e-mailing a person of Jewish
ancestry. It's an implicit threat, if one takes "Nazi" as one who
wishes or intends to kill as many Jews as he can lay his hands on.
I think that's way overboard. This "threat" would be laughed out of
court.
A real threat is when someone says "I'm going to ..", or "watch your
back",
or "I know where you live", or a similar formulation. If someone made
such a real threat on WP then the appropriate response would be to call
the cops. Just saying "I'm a Nazi" is not a threat without additional
words
that suggest action towards the "threatened" person.
Actually I find the idea that calling oneself a Nazi is a worse offence
than
calling someone else a Nazi to be astonishing. This is also true in
law, as
calling someone else a Nazi is libel but calling oneself a Nazi is
perfectly
legal.
Let's come up with a policy for this.
Obviously personal threats cannot be tolerated. Nor can criminal
libels.
Both should be capital offences. If some litigous person one day
decides to sue WP for publishing a libel against him/herself, just the
costs will close us down even if the case is weak.
Zero.
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