DarkDragonMedeus said:
I'm very well aware how often that abbreviation is thrown around all over the YouTube comments and I have partaken in international campaigns against that; which are all over the place in various colleges. And unlike Google/YouTube, Fandom has the active staff that look over comments and globally block people who even remotely say anything related to stuff like that. Google+ was shut down because they didn't have enough people or power to deal with the overwhelming amounts of harassment and cyberbullying. Lots of people have even gotten arrested for making some "kys" comments.
And it's really insensitive and insane to be saying such things casually.
"In California, the statutory definition of the crime at issue is set out in section 401. This felony statute, in effect since 1873, provides as follows: "Every person who deliberately aids, or advises, or encourages another to commit suicide, is guilty of a felony."[4] The language of section 401 closely resembles that used in other parts of the Penal Code to define or describe the principal criminal liability of persons who "aid and abet" the commission of a crime, and the courts have frequently used the terms aiding and abetting interchangeably with those employed by section 401 in discussing the elements of the crime defined by that statute.[5]
Although on its face the statute may appear to criminalize simply giving advice or encouragement to a potential suicide, the courts have—again by analogy to the law of aiding and abetting—required something more than mere verbal solicitation of another person to commit a hypothetical act of suicide. Instead, the courts have interpreted the statute as proscribing "the direct aiding and abetting of a specific suicidal act.... Some active and intentional participation in the events leading to the suicide are required in order to establish a violation." (McCollum v. CBS, Inc. (1988) 202 Cal.App.3d 989, 1007, 249 Cal.Rptr. 187, first italics in original, second and third italics added.) Thus, in order to prove a violation of section 401 it is necessary to establish all of the following essential elements: (1) the defendant specifically intended the victim's suicide; (2) the defendant undertook some active and direct participation in bringing about the suicide, such as by furnishing the victim with the means of suicide; and, finally, (3) the victim actually committed a specific, overt act of suicide. (Ibid.; People v. Matlock (1959) 51 Cal.2d 682, 694, 336 P.2d 505; Donaldson v. Lungren, supra, 2 Cal.App.4th at p. 1625, 4 Cal. Rptr.2d 59.)"
Source.
Comments such as those are commonplace within social media, you said so yourself. You're blowing this out of proportion, and I also feel like we're derailing the thread. If you wish to continue this (and I really hope you don't), then just go to my message wall or something. Otherwise, my place in this thread is over and I'm not gonna continue to talk to you about this.
