Judd LegumDonald Trump Jr. just posted a photo the judge's child on Truth Social
Shirley Marsh@juddlegum WTH? Now the kid's a target along with anyone near him such as family, friends, schoolmates...
GhostcatLoki@yesbiscuit @juddlegum she’s an adult.
TurboQuokka@Ghostcatloki @yesbiscuit @juddlegum And that makes doxxing an innocent person acceptable in what way, again?
@turboquokka @yesbiscuit @juddlegum it is not doxxing to publish a picture of a public figure’s adult daughter. Is it detestable? Yes. Would I do it? No, but acting like it’s somehow criminal is absurd, it’s the worst face of free speech, which we have to defend whether we like it or not, so that we can have free speech at all. The judge is a public figure and that carries consequences whether we agree with it or not.
Melody Cooper@Ghostcatloki @turboquokka @yesbiscuit @juddlegum So you’re saying taking the circumstances, timing and context, it cannot be seen as intimidation to post the photo of a judge’s relative to a site known to support and incite violence against liberals they don’t agree with?
@MelodyCooper @turboquokka @yesbiscuit @juddlegum I think you’re already embelllishing by calling Truth Social a site known to incite violence. In fact that is a whole separate charge against TS you’d have to prove before you could use it as an argument against Don Jr. Posting a picture on said site and then prove HIS intent was to intimidate or threaten someone. What you know and what you can prove in court are rarely the same.
@Ghostcatloki @MelodyCooper @yesbiscuit @juddlegum Familiarize yourself with the concept of “stochastic terrorism”, and then reevaluate what you’re trying to defend (probably along with WHY you’re so bent on defending it, which is frankly also really suspect.)
@turboquokka @MelodyCooper @yesbiscuit @juddlegum I’m quite familiar with it, now familiarize yourself with just how difficult it is to prove stochastic terrorism in a court of law. The answer: Extremely.
@turboquokka @MelodyCooper @yesbiscuit @juddlegum im defending it because if we don’t defend the worst uses of free speech, we all lose free speech. What Jr. Did is reprehensible. It is also his first amendment right to do so, and if y’all are intent on stopping people you don’t like from exercising their free speech, no matter how shitty that exercise is, you’re not for free speech.