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[–] sugarfree@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The overreaction to online death threats is so stupid. An anonymous 0 follower Twitter account allows organizations and people to instantly turn the PR situation around and become the victims and act like they are personally being hunted down by Mossad.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Death threats are the background noise of the internet, always have been. It's just part of the PR manual now.

[–] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember someone telling me they were going to hunt me down and kill me on StarCraft back in like 2001. Shit hasn't changed

[–] marth_21@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

I've almost found you, I've narrowed your location down to earth. Maybe in another 20 years, I'll get a hemisphere.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, you zerg rushed me in the first five minutes despite our prior agreement.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

To be faaiirrrrrrr

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, you are a ghost haunting a computer and have been since the year 2001