User:Collei



a chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction.

In all seriousness, I am probably the first person to be banned for lying about being eighteen. This isn't even in Discord's rules. They have a rule against consensual sexual interactions between teens, but I never did that. I also never "sexualized minors", as the warning message claims, and I am most certainly above the age of thirteen. Also, if I was under 13, how could I also be a pedophile at the same time, as they alledge?

What I likely am banned for is deliberately helping underage users avoid being banned (by deleting messages where they claim to be under 13, informing them of Discord's COPPA rule, and telling them how to evade it). This is not in violation of their rules, but it of course will make them unhappy (as it actively resists what I believe to be an immoral rule), and hence the chilling effect quote.

(To be clear, I've never done the same thing about underage users on Miraheze.)

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Unrelated, but I'd recommend reading w:Wikipedia:There is a deadline, especially in the context of the lawsuit against the Internet Archive.