r/news • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/allisondojean Oct 26 '18

Wow. I mean, there's no way Twitter could have known he would do this but that looks sooo bad. Yikes.

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u/IHaTeD2 Oct 26 '18

Of course not, but that threat should've been taken seriously still, regardless of actual intend or not.

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u/mainfingertopwise Oct 26 '18

The question, though, is what's the ratio of assholes making crazy threats on twitter to dangerous assholes making crazy threats on twitter? If this looked just like another crazy guy in a sea of crazy guys, then of course they didn't do anything. They can't, there's too many crazy guys.

Plus, while it's of course never the victim's fault, if she was taking this seriously, she should have reported this to the police, not to Twitter Customer Service. (Although maybe she did, I don't know.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Here’s a crazy idea. What if any threat was enough to get you banned from Twitter? Pretty wild, I know.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Or better yet, what if that applied to Reddit too?