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by smtlaissezfaire 1994 days ago
How does one decide what is imminent violence?

Who decides it?

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When you demand "trial by combat", and then the angry mob clubs a police officer to death, that's inciting violence.
The platform owner decides, and they come up with a process that is necessarily fuzzy? Our entire system of justice is built on the concept of having to make judgement calls. Moderation is also requires humans to take a look and say, this seems to violate our policies.

Take a look at these: https://mobile.twitter.com/GriffinMalone6/status/13480046828...

Are these threats of imminent violence? I'm confident that a reasonable person would say yes.