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Comment by zwirbl

13 hours ago

>... jailing people for social media posts

More like jailing people for inciting riots by repeatedly and vehemently posting proven wrong information. Freedom of speech is great and all, but you are advocating for freedom from consequences

If your 'opinion' consists of demonstrably wrong accusations to individuals and other proven lies, it is not political speech. Why do you insist on lies being political speech? You can hat your government without lies, I do dislike mine and have no need for lies when talking about it.

This is such a slippery slope. If I post on my social media that I hate my government and its policies - it should be protected as political speech.

You cannot jail people for their thoughts. Unless a person is physically present in public and is inciting violence in person, they do not violate anything