In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson.
Still, people still found a way to express how they felt ― to the tune of more than 90,000 laughing reactions as of Friday.
Why would you be banned? Everyone has been posting about this
Cause lemmy.world has been banning people for expressing that sentiment lol
Some people need the extra drama in their lives
Because I already was, albeit temporarily
“Seems like justice was served” was all I commented to be banned
Ah fair enough, that’s a reasonable reason to be concerned
Posting about it is one thing.
Specifically calling for violence is against LW’s TOS, and they seem to be ban happy when the violence is directed at the owning class.
As for people calling for violence being posted, I’ve seen very few comments more than 30 minutes old on LW doing that, but plenty on other servers. I’m not sure how LW is handling other instance comments though.
Because extremist rhetoric is banned in any decent space.
In what world is: “An individual who has been earning millions from allowing preventable deaths to take place deserves to die” extremist rhetoric?
In the pearl-clutching liberal world where people still can’t understand why she lost when it was her turn
Advocating for anybody’s killing is extremist. It’s literally the most extreme thing you could inflict upon somebody.
Revenge and justice aren’t the same thing.
No, you’re right. It’s fine that these executives go into meetings and enact plans that harm and kill sick people, while they profit. They should be allowed to do that without consequence. The fact that this one man killed only one person, and without personal profit, is abhorrent.
We do it once, and people are up in arms, they industrialize the process and make billions.
They actually sometimes are the same thing.
Would any sane person advocate against Hitler’s death after learning what he did?
The difference is that our government sanctioned that target ~80 years ago, but this one was against the law. Both people brought large numbers of innocent people to early graves in this world.
When patients are denied necessary care, they suffer. I would argue that this was not an act of revenge, because that would have been much more gruesome.
You lack imagination if you think death is the worst that can be inflicted.