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Incredibly Lame Pun is a redirect and not a trope by itself.


* IncrediblyLamePun: An internet bigot asks if Diane could get him off if he raped a female lawyer.
* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of bigots have figured out that they can get around online censorship by not actually threatening people, but just saying they hope very specific bad things happen to them, or posing hypotheticals. Whenever the lawyers come up with new ways to censor hate speech, the internet bigots find a way to circumvent them.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: An internet bigot asks if Diane could get him off if he raped a female lawyer.
* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of bigots have figured out that they can get around online censorship by not actually threatening people, but just saying they hope very specific bad things happen to them, them or posing hypotheticals. Whenever the lawyers come up with new ways to censor hate speech, the internet bigots find a way to circumvent them.them.
* {{Pun}}: An internet bigot asks if Diane could get him off if he raped a female lawyer.
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* BrickJoke: When Marissa prepares to go undercover with Jay, she says she wants her character to be a geologist. Jay says no, because it'd be too easy for people to realize that she knows squat about geology. While they're undercover, someone asks her what she does for a living, and she replies that she's a product analyst who wanted to be a geologist, but her husband (Jay) talked her out of it.

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Neil Gross puts the firm to work to remove hate speech, and the online users responsible, from his websites, an assignment Maia takes personally. Colin talks to his supervisor again about Kresteva. Marissa considers becoming an investigator. Maia's uncle warns her that her father is up to something, and she reaches out to Elsbeth for advice.

Things heat up between Colin and Lucca until he asks her to dinner. After the firm implements an appeals process for banned users, one user has a field day presenting his narrative. Information from the firm's discussions about the appeals process is leaked, which users use to their advantage. Lucca arranges a date so she can run into Colin, but without the results she expects. She confronts him later and is surprised again.

Maia shows up for a meeting with her father and finds a party in progress, and is nervous when he tries to speak with her in private. Marissa steps in when the investigator needs help tracking down a specific kind of online user, and discovers her talent for investigating. Elsbeth warns the firm about the newest fake news story. Julius makes a surprising decision about his future with the firm.

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Neil Gross puts the firm wants Chumhum to work be free of hate speech and enlists Reddick-Boseman to remove figure out how. After a lot of mishaps, they realize he only wanted to ''seem'' to care about hate speech, and the online users responsible, from his websites, picked an assignment Maia takes personally. Colin talks to his supervisor again about Kresteva. Marissa considers becoming an investigator. Maia's uncle warns her that her father is up to something, and she reaches out to Elsbeth for advice.

Things heat up between Colin and Lucca until he asks her to dinner. After the
African-American firm implements an appeals process for banned users, one user to blame when it didn't work. Felix Staples, who has a field day presenting his narrative. Information from the firm's discussions about the appeals process is leaked, which users use to their advantage. Lucca arranges a date so she can run into Colin, but without the results she expects. She confronts him later and is surprised again.

Maia shows up for a meeting with her father and finds a party in progress, and is nervous
never been more excited than when he tries gets to speak with her in private. Marissa steps in when say the investigator needs help tracking down a specific kind of things he would usually only say anonymously on an online user, and discovers her talent for investigating. Elsbeth warns the firm about the newest fake news story. Julius makes forum, out loud in front of a surprising decision about panel, is sorely disappointed when his future audience stops caring what lewdness he has come up with in the firm.
name of free speech.



* EtTuBrute: Elsbeth had Maia tell her father a false story about her firm taking a bribe, to see if it came back to them somehow, thus figuring out whether he is working against his daughter. The story comes back to them through Collin.

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* EtTuBrute: Elsbeth had Maia tell her father a false story about her firm taking a bribe, to see if it came back to them somehow, thus figuring out whether he is working against his daughter. The story comes back to them through Collin.Colin.
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* EtTuBrute: Elsbeth had Maia tell her father a false story about her firm taking a bribe, to see if it came back to them somehow, thus figuring out whether he is working against his daughter. The story comes back to them through Collin.

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* AutoErotica: Lucca and Colin go for a drive. She can't keep his hands off him, so he pulls over before they crash. The rest is implied.



* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of bigots have figured out that they can get around online censorship by not actually threatening people, but just saying they hope very specific bad things happen to them, or posing hypotheticals.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: An internet bigot asks if Diane could get him off if he raped a female lawyer.
* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of bigots have figured out that they can get around online censorship by not actually threatening people, but just saying they hope very specific bad things happen to them, or posing hypotheticals. Whenever the lawyers come up with new ways to censor hate speech, the internet bigots find a way to circumvent them.



** Mr. Stapes thinks the lawyers at Reddick & Boseman are like the parents in Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff.

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** Mr. Stapes Staples thinks the lawyers at Reddick & Boseman are like the parents in Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff.Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff.
* ThisIsReality: Jay and Marissa go undercover to talk to Felix Staples' boyfriend. Marissa wants to be a geologist, but Jay tells her that this isn't a cartoon, and she should say she's a product analyst because no one knows what that is so they can't tell that she's not.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Felix Staples is a gay Jewish man and suggests that it means he can say whatever he likes, be it anti-semitic or homophobic.

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* ActorAllusion: Elsbeth has someone in her life named Fantasia, alluding to the name of Eric Northman's bar, Fangtasia, in Series/TrueBlood, where Carrie Preston played Arlene.



* ShoutOut: An online bigot says that if Film/ThePurge was real, he'd rape Creator/{{Zendaya}}.

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An online bigot says that if Film/ThePurge was real, he'd rape Creator/{{Zendaya}}.Creator/{{Zendaya}}.
** Mr. Stapes thinks the lawyers at Reddick & Boseman are like the parents in Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff.

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Neil Gross puts the firm to work to remove hate speech, and the online users responsible, from his websites, an assignment Maia takes personally. Colin talks to his supervisor again about Kresteva. Marissa considers becoming an investigator. Maia's uncle warns her that her father is up to something, and she reaches out to Elsbeth for advice. Things heat up between Colin and Lucca until he asks her to dinner. After the firm implements an appeals process for banned users, one user has a field day presenting his narrative. Information from the firm's discussions about the appeals process is leaked, which users use to their advantage. Lucca arranges a date so she can run into Colin, but without the results she expects. She confronts him later and is surprised again. Maia shows up for a meeting with her father and finds a party in progress, and is nervous when he tries to speak with her in private. Marissa steps in when the investigator needs help tracking down a specific kind of online user, and discovers her talent for investigating. Elsbeth warns the firm about the newest fake news story. Julius makes a surprising decision about his future with the firm.

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Neil Gross puts the firm to work to remove hate speech, and the online users responsible, from his websites, an assignment Maia takes personally. Colin talks to his supervisor again about Kresteva. Marissa considers becoming an investigator. Maia's uncle warns her that her father is up to something, and she reaches out to Elsbeth for advice.

Things heat up between Colin and Lucca until he asks her to dinner. After the firm implements an appeals process for banned users, one user has a field day presenting his narrative. Information from the firm's discussions about the appeals process is leaked, which users use to their advantage. Lucca arranges a date so she can run into Colin, but without the results she expects. She confronts him later and is surprised again.

Maia shows up for a meeting with her father and finds a party in progress, and is nervous when he tries to speak with her in private. Marissa steps in when the investigator needs help tracking down a specific kind of online user, and discovers her talent for investigating. Elsbeth warns the firm about the newest fake news story. Julius makes a surprising decision about his future with the firm.


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* CentralTheme: Is hate speech a matter of free speech?
* DehumanizingInsult: A lot of internet commenters, as well as Maia's phone harassers, openly fantasize about women getting raped, mutilated, and killed.
* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of bigots have figured out that they can get around online censorship by not actually threatening people, but just saying they hope very specific bad things happen to them, or posing hypotheticals.
* ShoutOut: An online bigot says that if Film/ThePurge was real, he'd rape Creator/{{Zendaya}}.
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I will get to this.

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!!Social Media and Its Discontents

Neil Gross puts the firm to work to remove hate speech, and the online users responsible, from his websites, an assignment Maia takes personally. Colin talks to his supervisor again about Kresteva. Marissa considers becoming an investigator. Maia's uncle warns her that her father is up to something, and she reaches out to Elsbeth for advice. Things heat up between Colin and Lucca until he asks her to dinner. After the firm implements an appeals process for banned users, one user has a field day presenting his narrative. Information from the firm's discussions about the appeals process is leaked, which users use to their advantage. Lucca arranges a date so she can run into Colin, but without the results she expects. She confronts him later and is surprised again. Maia shows up for a meeting with her father and finds a party in progress, and is nervous when he tries to speak with her in private. Marissa steps in when the investigator needs help tracking down a specific kind of online user, and discovers her talent for investigating. Elsbeth warns the firm about the newest fake news story. Julius makes a surprising decision about his future with the firm.

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