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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

By an amazing coincidence over-broad legislation made on top of a legally undefined word ended up used against things and groups which weren't at all the claimed targets of that legislation.

This was also totally unexpected and nobody could ever had foreseen how they could be leveraged for such uses when those laws were first drafted and approved.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Hopscotching backward time and time again into fascism because we laser focused on bad words and not the actual languages of power.

at least it looks like the guy in the video got off the hook by simply swapping a word around so there's that. kind of funny in the context of what you said

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago

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