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KanadainKanada t1_iy4s1sh wrote

Reply to comment by Chief_Beef_ATL in Encouraging self-harm to be criminalised in Online Safety Bill by speckz

> It's illegal to tell someone to kill someone.

Wrong. It is illegal to incite someone to commit a crime.

Is it a crime to commit suicide? No. So, is inciting someone to suicide a crime? Of course not. At least as long as we talk about sane adults. As soon as you step into people that aren't legally competent, need a guardian etc. that's something else.

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Chief_Beef_ATL t1_iy580s9 wrote

People that need a guardian is something else? Like young people aka children? Thankfully no young children use the internet. Young people are always kind and thoughtful and never do or say bad things, right? They are immune from depression as well as the effects of bullying. And they certainly have never committed suicide as a result of online bullying. Harrassment until someone kills themselves is still harassment, adult or no.

So murder for hire is legal in your book? Go kill them is fine to say? But INCITING someone, oh that's different. That's a nay-no.

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KanadainKanada t1_iy99sk5 wrote

> Thankfully no young children use the internet.

Too bad there is no one, like literally no one assigned as the guardian of that person that I don't know regularly checks on the shit that child does. I mean - no one is checking the shit you post online, right?

You do not understand language, do you? Incitement to commit a crime is illegal. Incitement to go fuck yourself is not a crime since fucking yourself is not illegal. You get it now?

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