Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-house-my-rules dept.

"MrPlow" writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.

Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.

"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.

Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 203 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 15 2018, @09:41PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 15 2018, @09:41PM (#622756) Journal

    How unscientific of you, "I deny". According to what experimental data and what scientific theories? but we derail.

    What's unscientific about the "denial"? Miracles aren't even well-defined. By the usual dictionary definition [oxforddictionaries.com]:

    An extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.

    Notice the other definitions are merely labels for fortuitous events and have no religious connotation.

    So by definition, a miracle is supernatural and can't be explained or described by the scientific process. That makes it very ill-defined.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @10:06PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday January 15 2018, @10:06PM (#622773) Journal

    You cannot deny the undefined.

    Deny means X is false.

    You can NOT ACCEPT something as proof.

    It's like you people did not read the second paragraph. There is your escape hatch, nuke proof.

    --
    Account abandoned.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:49PM (#623714)

      I guess you are arguing semantics because you have no better arguments. That says a lot.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:39PM

        by Bot (3902) on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:39PM (#624125) Journal

        OTOH if I let people use deny on undefined things unchallenged, some other people might not realized it's all a bluff.

        --
        Account abandoned.