Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’
www.polygon.com
The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5340114

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Original Discussion[1]

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.

  1. https://lemmy.world/post/5057297 ↩︎

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      204·
      1 year 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?

      • KlearEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

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

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          113·
          1 year 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.worldEnglish
            33·
            1 year 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
              71·
              1 year 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.