Unfortunately, there are lot of easily influenced people who did go there. Like a cesspool, it was a breeding ground for conspiracy theories, racism, fascism, and much more.

Yeah, turns out it’s impossible to point out the coming class war without also acting like complete assholes and aping the lowest-common-denominator discourse of their supposed foes

You didn’t have to visit r/The_Donald a single time to get harassed by its users. They went out of their way to gang up on people from other subredits who weren’t part of their hivemind.

“The government has no place in telling a private business how it should conduct itself. It should be allowed to enforce its policies and meet the demands of a free and open market”

If Right-Wing dipshits are supposedly being silenced online, how come they never, ever shut the fuck up?

Could you BE any more ignorant about Mathew Perry mannerisms?

Are you...TRYING too sound like Matthew Perry?

Because you’re Justin Bieber. Why would you dedicate time, effort, and energy to getting revenge against someone who, if not telling the truth, is very likely mentally ill and has no money for you to recover?

This logic makes no fucking sense. It’s literally the entire point behind defamation laws.

If they are outright lying (big “if” I’ll grant) there’s nothing “douchey” about suing. Expecting someone to be chill about what could have been a career ending and/or lifetime imprisoning accusation is not a reasonable ask and even if this does undermine future accusers that’s ultimately the fault of the false…

it should put a chill on liars

It’s not about the money. 

if he didn’t seem guilty before

I kind of hope he wins and Twitter is forced, by a court of law to reveal the identity of it’s users here. Maybe the first step towards the end of social media anonymity.  Wouldn’t that be a good thing, overall? 

No, because that is an opinion of his character, not a statement of alleged fact. You are free to have your opinions about people and your perception of their character and you are free to air them in a public forum.

Yeah, a John Doe lawsuit. Though he probably has firmer legal ground to stand on than Nunes, since he’s arguing “I have evidence that someone is wrongfully accusing me of heinous crimes in a malicious attempt to ruin my reputation” and not “Someone said mean things about my political opinions.” It’s probably a legal…

Yeah I liked that he added that it was still important to believe women. Also wow he has amazing record keeping. His outward media appearance would not suggest “can pull out receipts from 6 years ago whenever necessary”

That story has been out there forever. Here’s a story about that from the AV Club literally 10 years ag0.

Who would have thought Justin Beiber of all people would have a mature response to something like this. I appreciate that he said “Every claim of sexual abuse should be taken very seriously”.  

“The closeted perv has never come out as gay”

Because he very well may not be; being a child predator /= gay. Abusive sex is about power, not identity.