What do news reports count as a 'death threat' on social media?

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[–]tomatosplat 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Anything that disagrees with them is violence.

[–]teelo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

15 years ago I used to get messages in games like Starcraft saying they were going to come to my house and kill me. People just angry they lost a game.

These days I don't see stuff like that. I presume either the messages get filtered out of the people sending them already got perm-banned for saying it to others.

[–]motionlessoracle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think standards have probably fallen. When I used to receive death threats, they said stuff like "the next time I see u, Im going to slit ur throat and stuff u in a bag". They were graphic and implied the sender knew where to find me and intended to carry out the threat.

I'm going to guess that "go kill yourself", "you're too stupid to live", or "I wish you'd die" are considered death threats now. In other words, they are messages that mention death and the recipient interprets them as threats because they are not 100% validating.

[–]quantum-step 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Body positive photos means that she was morbidly obese and showing a lot of skin in order to feel better about her choice to constantly stuff her fat face with food. Opposed to burning off some of the 5000+ calories a day she consumes while staring at her phone all day and night.
The death threats were probably something like "if you don't go on a diet, then it could impact your health" or "maybe take a short walk instead of eating that 5th pizza for breakfast" or " no, it's not safe to consume 9 gallons of sugary carbonated drinks daily" or "that pain in your chest may be a heart attack and not a flaming hot cheeto like you think".