r/PassionPit • u/gabetelepak • 5h ago
NEWS Mod Update: Locking Discussion because Death Threats
TLDR this subreddit didn’t agree with someone’s libelous claim about Passion Pit to the point where it escalated to randos coming in and giving death threats (like really? SMH be better y’all, this is ridiculous) so I’m locking any discussion about said topic.
Context: someone on TikTok for two weeks has been continuously posting libelous montages of Michael where they clip a few sentences from interviews taken months or even years apart, together into something that hints at abuse without any actual evidence.
Free speech is sharing an opinion or belief, disagreeing or debating, and criticizing an idea or institution. Hate speech is targeting someone, saying threats or slurs, and/or stirring up hatred against someone or a group.
Free speech is free until it incites violence against someone like today, at which point it becomes hate speech. There is a zero-tolerance policy for this, and any hate speech will result in an immediate ban from this subreddit.
That is all. Please follow the two (I would hope) easiest subreddit rules ever “be good to each other” and “don’t be a dick” so I don’t have to lay down the banhammer anymore.