Sure, I agree that it's a stupid idea from an effort vs reward perspective. It's at best unnecessary.
But your initial position was that it couldn't be done without being easy to prove that it was a fabrication, and I think you're wrong about that.
I think that they are more than capable of doing it in such a way that it's wholly word-vs-word, with no forensic evidence pointing to it being doctored. And the idea that they would do that is outlandish enough that most reasonable people would assume the post was legitimate and that the "offender" was lying about it to try and deflect blame.
It's the classic, "No, I didn't post that list of porn search terms to my Twitter! I was hacked!! Totally somebody hacked me and did that. Wasn't me at all!!” But in this case it'd be something that was a pretext for the government to arrest them.
Sure, but then it's a question of narrative not proof, right?
Because the response from X would just be, "we aren't sure why Mr so-and-so didn't/couldn't immediately delete the post, but we froze it in short order because we believe the fact he would post such a thing is a matter of public interest, and we refuse to let him sweep it under the rug."
Yeah, he could say that he posted something completely different and X changed it, but how do you prove it? Everyone would just assume it to be a lie trying to cover their ass after posting something terrible.
Not saying this is at all likely. Just that it's possible.
And this assumes they notice it was doctored immediately anyway. Most people don't verify that the post is correct after hitting "submit." A good 90+% of people would probably never notice if the text was changed post upload.
said it did not count criticism of Israel as an antisemitic incident, but did count incidents as antisemitic if someone called for the destruction of Israel or used antisemitic tropes in discussing Israel.
I think you'd have to comb through that to figure out where the line is, but I think it's possible to cross the line from opposing the Israeli state to using antisemitic slurs without too much difficulty.
Not defending Israel. But I do think that people tend to be pretty bad at nuance, and if you told me that the Israeli abuses are leading to a rise in hate towards Jewish people I'd believe it.
They probably don't have the warehouse capacity to store all those extra units. There's a lot of logistics involved in housing and shipping 2.2mil consoles, and "just wait" can be way harder than you would think.
Yeah, I say that every time someone tells me that they had a grandparent die. I'm like, "yeah man, that's what grandparents do. They're all old and stuff. Of course they die. Grow up."
No idea why I don't get invited to parties any more.
A political institution in Europe in AD 30? The year Jesus began his public ministry?
That's a pretty bold claim, lol. I assume they're just saying "the Catholic church" has been around since then, since that's when christianity started?
Gotta love Alito and Thomas, lol.
The inanity of this descent is wild.
A emergency hold while you await further info from the government before they ship someone out of the country is pretty normative and reasonable.
And "the government hasn't said anything about it to us yet, so we can't rule on it," is the most braindead take in the world. So the government can do whatever they want without injunction, so long as they don't file a rebuttal in court? Lunacy.
But, gotta love a good 7-2 with Alito and Thomas at the bottom. Gonna have to go read the full opinion. Those ones are always good for a laugh.
Other countries don't enshrine freedom of speech the way the US does. In many countries certain types of political speech are outlawed.