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Comment by stackbutterflow

17 hours ago

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> The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire.

Saying she was put in jail for social media posts is like saying a murderer was jailed for breathing air.

Meanwhile a US citizen was jailed for a meme quoting Trump after Kirk death.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail...

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kyboren  17 hours ago

> Meanwhile a US citizen was jailed for a meme quoting Trump after Kirk death.

And that was wrong, too. Also newsworthy because it is so unusual.

> First link

I think it's probably legal under US jurisprudence, but fine, you can have that one. How about the guy who got raided for calling Robert Habeck a "professional moron"? Or the 170 other people raided in Germany for their online speech?