I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior.

Tea is still available on the app store, which is a far more targeted harassment and slander app, than this one that was clearly more of a 4chan style "for the lulz" that no one would take seriously.

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BugsJustFindMe 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of ...

False dichotomy fallacy. Also fallacy of emotive language. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal.

> Tea is still available on the app store

Whataboutism. Fallacy of relative privation. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal.

Since we're talking about worlds we'd like to live in, I'd like to live in a world where people believe that it's bad to think harassment platforms are ok/cool/fun.

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Dylan16807 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tea being available is relevant! Your list of fallacies is less useful than the comment you replied to, despite its flaws.

Also using emotive language isn't a fallacy, get out of here with that. Using the phrase "authoritarian nightmare" does not replace logic with emotion like an actual fallacy would.

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Ajedi32 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The manner in which the school got the website taken down was via an authoritarian nightmare, so it's not exactly a false dichotomy in this case. If not for the authoritarian nightmare the site might still be up.

Though it's admittedly possible they could have eventually gotten the website taken down through less thuggish means.

	▲	BugsJustFindMe 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The false dichotomy is that the two scenarios are presented as the only two options when they aren't the only two options. The use of "authoritarian nightmare" is the emotive language.