Posted on 12/30/2019 9:19:23 PM PST by Windflier
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court bench handed down a ruling Thursday approving the death penalty for people who comment on articles without reading them.
In the highly publicized case, State of Texas v. Wilbur, state authorities had found internet user Edward Wilbur guilty of posting a comment on a story linked on his Facebook page, a news story Wilbur “had clearly never read.”
While most of those convicted under Texas’ recent state law banning commenting on news stories or opinion pieces without reading them get off with a few months of community service or a stiff fine, the “severe stupidity” of Wilbur’s comment reportedly landed him a shocking sentence of execution by lethal injection.
This would be fatal to many freep commenters.
About time
This will decimate Free Republic!
(I’m going to go read the article now)
This just in...
2/3rd’s of the members of the Free Republic website have recently been indicted for posting without reading articles.
In related news, the Justice department is hiring executioners.
Freeper DannyTN complained that he had made a fine art of posting without reading articles and that as an artist his freedom of expression should be protected. He planned to spend his last days posting stupid memes.
Oh sh*t - I’m a dead man!
Uh oh, Windy, I’m a goner.
As well as many commenters within the various Gizmodo sites - which include Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku and numerous others.
Most of us are guilty of this occasionally.
A few of us are guilty a lot more than that.
Off with their heads!
Deservedly so.
What about putting things together without reading the instructions?
Well I’m petitioning to make TN a sanctuary state...
:)
I’m gonna need some menu help for my last meal.
At least 90% of the board would be killed immediately.
Wouldn’t you know it? The one time I didn’t do a search on a title...
lol!
I just spent 5 minutes of the most uproariously good time laughing. It was full of basically puns extended into “news items,” such as “motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist, wins race posting fastest time ever.....” or Bill Clinton, in discussing Epstein said, “it depends on what your definition of suicide is.....”
Any consideration for those who read the title before commenting ?
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