Comment by kosinus
6 days ago
There are so so many reasons to get arrested for social media posts that have nothing to do with censorship.
6 days ago
There are so so many reasons to get arrested for social media posts that have nothing to do with censorship.
Be that as it may, people are being arrested for expressing wrong think
No, people are being arrested for making malicious communications. They would have suffered the same punishment if they had used email, letter, graffiti on a billboard.
You cannot go around threatening to harm people without repercussions.
"Malicious communications" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. This veteran was arrested for retweeting this meme (https://abuwjaawap.cloudimg.io/v7/_lgbtqnation-assets_/asset...).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066477/Veteran-ar...
He was offered to undergo "re-education." You might not like this meme. You might find it offensive. But should he be arrested by several officers for it? Of course not. This is just one example of many people being being arrested and imprisoned for offending people. It is against the law to offend people in the UK.
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Nope. People are certainly being arrested for speech (e.g. opinions) that would be protected by the first amendment in the US.
Guising it under a scary sounding law doesn’t change the nature of it.
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Considering all forms of sharing information as freedom, USA have huge problem with copyrights. Copyright limits people right to speech to protect interest of corporations, same as ban of stalking or slanders limits freedom of speech to protect victims.