I think they think they've covered that off with "entrapment"
... but who entraps people to gain false information? Doesn't really hold up if you think about it, but that is the last thing wiki wants you do to here...
'Entrapment' is when you arguably manipulate someone into doing something that they never would've done without your presence.
Unless they're arguing that the information people volunteer when they think they're talking off the record to impostors is all lies said to impress their new 'friends' there's no entrapment here.
...And really, even if they were lies to impress new friends, that in itself speaks volumes about these people.
Entrapment is authorities manipulating you to break the law and then arresting you for it. I guess I didn’t know that Twitter jail was taken literally.
If this were a police-suspect situation, tricking the suspect into admitting their crimes, such as by, I dunno, putting on a disguise and asking questions, is a perfectly legitimate tactic. The police use informants all the time who lie about who they are.
Well if you use the word 'entrapment' as a noun, and not by it's legal definition. Then yes, they have set a trap, where in the 'victim' has confessed to their crimes.
That's not even what entrapment is, either. Entrapment is coercing someone into committing a crime that they otherwise wouldn't have. For example, blackmail is entrapment if you use the threat of exposure to get them to commit other crimes.
In my experience, people who think that secretly recording someone doing something bad is "entrapment" tend to be teenagers with a very tenuous grasp of how the world works, or mentally ill adults. Not a coincidence that both of those groups dominate Wikipedia.
Videotaped confessions straight from the horses' mouth are 'disininformation', rofl.
I think they think they've covered that off with "entrapment"
... but who entraps people to gain false information? Doesn't really hold up if you think about it, but that is the last thing wiki wants you do to here...
Even the 'entrapment' claim is BS.
'Entrapment' is when you arguably manipulate someone into doing something that they never would've done without your presence.
Unless they're arguing that the information people volunteer when they think they're talking off the record to impostors is all lies said to impress their new 'friends' there's no entrapment here.
...And really, even if they were lies to impress new friends, that in itself speaks volumes about these people.
Entrapment is authorities manipulating you to break the law and then arresting you for it. I guess I didn’t know that Twitter jail was taken literally.
If this were a police-suspect situation, tricking the suspect into admitting their crimes, such as by, I dunno, putting on a disguise and asking questions, is a perfectly legitimate tactic. The police use informants all the time who lie about who they are.
Oh, agreed, it's total BS ... but I can't think why else entrapment is there, apart from a thorough misunderstanding of the relevant law.
Well if you use the word 'entrapment' as a noun, and not by it's legal definition. Then yes, they have set a trap, where in the 'victim' has confessed to their crimes.
That's not even what entrapment is, either. Entrapment is coercing someone into committing a crime that they otherwise wouldn't have. For example, blackmail is entrapment if you use the threat of exposure to get them to commit other crimes.
In my experience, people who think that secretly recording someone doing something bad is "entrapment" tend to be teenagers with a very tenuous grasp of how the world works, or mentally ill adults. Not a coincidence that both of those groups dominate Wikipedia.
"He made me look stupid! I'm not stupid! This must be disinformation! Probably Russian too! REEEEEEEEEEE"
How come they never talk about Chinese disinformation?
Or Israeli disinformation.
Wait, then the kickbacks would stop.
Something something lying eyes