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Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ram@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

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[-] TrumpetX@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure killing is a worse way to ruin someone's life.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The number of people being ruined is pretty different though.

I get it, it's a callous attitude, but I'm wondering if going for civility above anything else is really working out. I'd love for such situations to be settled with a reasonable discussion, but do they ever?

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

Not sending death threats is the bar set for civility these days?

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

He didn't kill anyone.

[+] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world -7 points 11 months ago

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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Because a threat is not an attempt. Most likely they had absolutely no intention to carry through with it.

It's still bad but saying "I'm gonna kill you" is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Because a threat is not an attempt...but saying “I’m gonna kill you” is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

Obviously, but you don't ignore it either. You don't wait for a DUI to crash before doing something about the threat. Say you'd like to shoot the president and see if the secret service ignores you.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

You said that he didn't kill anyone because he got caught first. Which implies that if he didn't get caught he would have actually killed someone.

They really aren't the same. It's a common fallacy on the Internet to lunge straight to the worst possible case and equate that to whatever it is you're arguing, but it really isn't the same. Sure, the secret service won't ignore you if you say you'd like to shoot the president. But will their reaction be the same as if you've smuggled a gun in to a press conference and are spotted actively moving to get near him? Obviously not, because what I said remains true. Simply saying "I'm gonna kill you" is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Hold on, give him time to think of more strawmen.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Time is up!

Case closed.

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