[freehunter]

So you told a support representative from Amazon (you should realize there are humans behind these accounts) to kill themselves, suggested someone should kill the US president, and "possibly used the 'c' word", and you're wondering why a US-based company might be offended by that?

That's basically a list of the three most offensive things you could possibly say in America. Of course you were banned for it.

[teh_klev]

Unsure if /s or a smiley needs to be appended to your comment ;) I hereby invoke Poe's Law.

[freehunter]

No. No Poe's Law, no /s, no smiley. Maybe things are different in Scotland but in the US if you tell someone to kill themselves and say the US president should be killed, that's about as serious an offense as I can imagine. It doesn't even matter how you feel about the US president, you could be the most anti-Trump person in the world but you still shouldn't expect to say someone should kill the US president and expect that you'll have zero repercussions for it.

[teh_klev]

Then I think you should read my post again. It's pretty clear none of what I said was to be taken literally. If that's the case then you're suggesting that the average US citizen's ability to perform reading comprehension is even worse than I thought and I simply do not cannot believe that.

[freehunter]

It doesn't matter how you intended for it to be taken. If you jokingly told someone to kill themselves and they did actually kill themselves, would you hide behind "they should have known I was joking"?

I read your post three times before I first commented to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding. What you claim to have said is horribly offensive and I can't believe you're trying to shrug it off as no big deal. Maybe it's a cultural difference, but hopefully what you're learning is that it may be okay to tell a human being to kill themselves in Scotland but that is not considered acceptable in the US.

[teh_klev]

> If you jokingly told someone to kill themselves

I jokingly told an inanimate piece of software to kill itself, AI's are not people, they're machines running lines of code. But I see no point continuing to justify my "cultural" differences in the use of speech other than to say that I've known enough US folks to know that your reaction is something of an outlier. If this is truly how you feel, then I'd be curious to know how the US managed to survive having George Carlin or Bill Hicks on their tellies.

[freehunter]

The difference is they are comedians who were commissioned to tell jokes to an audience that is expecting to hear jokes. Meanwhile you told an Amazon employee to kill themselves because you didn't like the output of the technology their company offers.

Again... there are humans behind these Twitter accounts.