I don’t like this at all. Incredibly dangerous. From someone linking an attack-page with javascript and a zero-day that means one doesn’t even have to leave the (presumably safe) site to get hit to someone trying an IP-scraper meaning you just have to visit/expand the post for your IP to be collected. This is a security nightmare. I’m not against click to play embedded videos or media where you can click to load but this is not good. Just scrape the website for text to create a locally hosted snippet or something. At least make it click to open.
At the very, very least run it off an allow-list though even then some of us may not like our computers unexpectedly accessing certain resources. I know some users in Europe could get in trouble if for example it was an RT page and I’d imagine some of the news sources around here (not this one but others) that people link definitely move one up the empire’s automated threat radar merely by accessing them and that should be a consensual and conscious choice not something that happens because you open a comment thread.
I love how people who must be new to America were claiming that oh jury nullification would happen, oh surely their defense attorney would be incompetent to not get at least one person fucked over by health insurance companies on the jury, etc, etc. Exhibit A. The judge is the arbiter of what is and isn’t fair including in jury selection and this judge already knows what they want I’m sure. All they have to do in their mind is preside over proving he was the shooter and it wasn’t someone else. Then throw the book at him, send him to the worst prison, have the DA and mayor hold a grinning press conference where friendly press asks a softball about the “small minority of extremists celebrating the shooter” to which they reply they’re next and that the proles had better learn their place because the truncheon is out and they will not tolerate so much as online joke-threats against the precious C-suite class.
Just more of business as usual two-tier justice system (bourgeoisie and their important servants and everyone else especially proles). Post SA threats against women? Against minor girls online? Sorry cops can’t do anything internet isn’t real, stop worrying about it even though they sent you pictures of your house and have been doing this for weeks in graphic detail. Post like one joke meme about a C-suite person who lives 3000 miles from you with a guillotine that they never even see? Warrant for no-knock raid signed immediately, terrorism charges prepared, dog shot dead, press announcement of no tolerance made about the raid by visibly angry and stern DA or cop.