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Originally Posted by spacedog
You can't blame them for wanting to investigate it.. Suppose the trolls followed through with it and nobody did nothing to prevent it after knowing of it?
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From my original post:
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Originally Posted by Libertine
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Now, having to respond to potential threats is one thing. Often, it's necessary to react even when there's a big chance that it's all bullshit. But for fuck's sake, can't those incompetent twats at least keep silent until they know what's actually going on?
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Making sure nothing happens is a good thing. Spreading fear before it's even clear what the situation is, however, is not. And distracting people from the real issues by spending lots of news time on something that never even happened is even worse.