[spwa4]

But that is totally unreasonable ... what would you do if I accuse you of child molesting? Let's say I make a video focusing on that. Obviously it's not true, but that doesn't prevent anyone from making such a video.

I think you'll be insisting on additional context and moving the topic of conversation away from child molesting and your involvement therein to, oh, perhaps "fake news".

The sad truth is that it's fundamentally true that the reality on the ground is not a compromise between both sides. There is an actual reality.

[viridian]

Honestly, thinking it through, there's no way I'd engage the public at all on something like that except possibly a singular utterance that no, it didn't happen, ever, not even close, it's a bold faced lie.

Trying to contextualize or talk about fake news or doing anything else feels very shady to me in that context. You do often see this sort of hemming and hawing from people online during these cancellation campaigns, and I cannot even fathom what inspires them to do anything other than directly and aggressively defend themselves.

[xg15]

> what would you do if I accuse you of child molesting? Let's say I make a video focusing on that.

Depends strongly on what you mean of "make a video focusing on that". Is the video just repeating the accusations, without giving any evidence? Is the video a fake? Or does it show actual evidence of child molesting?

I think the moral judgement of this would depend strongly on whether actual molestation has taken place and whether or not the video shows evidence of that.

If it didn't show evidence or the evidence was fake, the case can be dismissed without any additional context and the blame would be on the author of the video for spreading libel.

But if it was true, what kind of context would you expect would change the outcome? "That kid totally deserved it"?

Incidentally, Israelis make the same demand on the world to ignore any "context" for October 7.