What are the free speech limits on an offensive 9/11 build?

You must be pretty stupid not to see it, look harder. Don't use your eyes, use your mind.

Not quite, try again.

*closes eyes*

I see jonny, i see michelle, i see julie, i see ralphie, i see HYPOCRISY! Who let him in here?!!!! ZOMG!

Time and time again the foolish and feebleminded rail and cry against us. Someday you will learn.

Personally, I think the newest incarnation of our 9/11 Tribute is the best and clearest expression of what it was intended to be all along. Art makes you think, art invokes a response - if you feel nothing when you look at it, the artist has failed. If the intent was to invoke a feeling, even anger - the artist has done his job.

Incorrect, please insert another coin to try again.

Horray for trolls.

What about gnomes?

no thanks, i dont want or need to see what you believe to be profound.

to me its just hypocrisy and excuses from RL damaged people who have to join a group of other self realized pariahs to fit 'in', with others who want to take out their personal problems on faceless people at the other end of a wire.

It's time for me to leave I fear, friends coming over, and wasting energy on you just can't compete with that at all...

maybe we'll make an effigy of the towers out in the yard, point a burning jet at it, and see what the neighbors think. I will be sure to wear body armor.

nite kids

Goodnight

So basically what you're saying, 'neener neener my view is right and yours is wrong?' Lol. Oook. What grade level are we in?

I don't appreciate your characterization of me, Einsman. You do not know my motivations for starting this thread, so don't you dare attempt to speak what they were. I stated my reasons clearly in this thread. I asked a question about the limits of free speech in SL. As someone personally connected to the event.

It amazes me the lengths people will go to in order to justify someone being completely oblivious to the feelings of others. This build serves absolutely no point but to cause pain and to mock. That is what I don't find funny. Even so, I did not ask to have it removed, but this freedom of speech you are so fucking worried about also allows me to speak about what I think of the build, and by proxy, your post.

So you can read minds now? That's pretty cool. Please tell how you accomplished this amazing feat.

I don't think it's fair for you to make assumptions about the mental state of the person who erected that build.

efb

The person who created the build stated that they created it because they found it all very funny - it is in this thread. I am making no assumptions on that.

Well said Ace! I couldn't say it anywhere near as good as you but I certainly agree woth everything you said here!

Arti

Don't make assumptions on the w-hat group by heresay.
Other than a few great meetings I shouldn't judge them either.
Nothing you've posted has any facts behind it.
Telling people they are stupid and inferior is very immature.

Get rid of your superiority on the internet complex.
Every once in a while you should go visist the w-hats in baku.
To understand is to respect.

Sadly few here seem to understand objectivity.
All people have a different sense of humor and deal with things different.
No one in W-hat forced you to look at a prim wtc texture.
Don't take your fascists tendencies out on them.

It's easy to understand.
Nothing makes sense.

Vbulletin said they were going to sue me if i didn't put this crap here.
All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call.
Grab her vagina by the labia and then shout into it "hello? is there anyone.
Inside this carnivous vagina?"
Nothings is brraaaaiiiinnnnnnnns!!! unnnnnnn!!!
As for scorchio... well, there's no way for me to fix stupidity.

Well how ironic, you're certainly characterizing the person who created this build but yet, you don't let others characterize you?

Why don't you re read the TOS and CS.

Why is my mental state coming into question? Am I all of a sudden unstable or crazy for creating a tower that I found amusing?

I commented on the creator's motivations after he himself stated them. I have read the TOS, and there is actually a section that does cover this build Feel free to reread the thread instead of just blindly making statements, Einsman.

I imagine the reason one would question your mental state, or at least your sense of decency and compassion is because you find the entire tragedy funny somehow. I guess when you lose a close loved one, and then have someone make a mockery of it, perhaps you will understand. I personally don't think you're crazy, I just think that the build was horribly offensive to many people, and not worth the price of upsetting and offending people just because you think it's funny to do so.

/clap yea definitely. we all have the power to change the channel!

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall


(No it's wasn't Voltaire)

Siggy.

I find the 9-11 tragedy itself funny..? Huh, news to me.

:: skips from the 3rd long ass page to the last...


"The tower itself is more or less a response to those that felt the need to become uber-patriots after 9-11 and adorn their lawn with American flags and signs that read "JESUS LOVES ALL"."

Now see, if only there was a sign or plaque up next to the build that said the builders' true intentions... problem solved for all

Seems like a lotta folks here have overdosed on a few too many Six Feet Under re-runs. Enough of this subjective/objective relativistic tit-for-tat I'm right/you're wrong but go ahead and speak your mind so that I can twist your words and mock your pain bullshit. Somebody post a poll, already, and let's be done with this. I'll wager that a super-majority agrees that this type of build generally violates the moral sensibilities of "reasonable" persons (a legal standard, btw), not to mention the ToS or CS. Is there a bookie in the house?

Oh, and if Americans are twits, then I dare say that all of humanity are twits. We are, after all, the great melting pot of global humanity...