Comment by cpursley

15 hours ago

You are talking about something different (in bad faith). Please share a single instance of a US citizen being arrested for an offensive social media post.

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lmm  14 hours ago

A 30 second search found me https://www.fire.org/news/he-spent-37-days-jail-facebook-pos... . You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. (And you're pretty thoroughly proving my point about US citizens not caring about anyone else)

  • nxm  12 hours ago

    Yay you found a single instance, and more over there are legal means of recourse, unlike the the UK when you’re jailed or fined and that’s it

    • wat10000  7 hours ago

      Don't give a sarcastic reply about finding a single instance, when the request was literally "Please share a single instance." It's just silly.

t-3  12 hours ago

The US has arrested many people for speech, and even made charges stick many time. A famous historical example is charging Eugene Debs (and many others) with sedition for opposing WWI and the draft. There was at least one case of being arrested for political social media posts, already linked in adjacent threads. Threats of violence or even sufficiently harsh language to cause fear-for-life can be a crime. "Revenge porn" and deepfakes have had laws passed curtailing them and prosecutions made. The US is certainly less restrictive of speech than other countries, but you're nowhere near entirely free to say or post anything you want.

vrganj  10 hours ago

Why does it need to be a US citizen? Is mistreatment okay if they're not a citizen? That clause reads extremely chauvinist to me.