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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't totally disagree, but I don't agree either. Saying there isn't a semantic argument to be had is terribly ignorant. If you own a car and I take it, sure that's theft. If you own a car and I take a picture of it, that isn't theft. I created something new that didn't effect the thing you own.

In the same way, creating a copy of bits of data does not effect the original item someone owns. It does not remove anything from them. If you're not taking anything from them, how can it be theft? Theft requires something to be taken.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have near-zero interest in this conversation, but one can absolutely steal a service. You're taking from them because to consume the product you were expected to pay, and their entire infrastructure revolves around that.

How you feel about it is your business, but it is very cut and dry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Sure, but it's a product not a service.

It's not as cut and dry as you seem to think. If it is cut and dry, I'd say it's to the opposite of your opinion, but I don't think it is.