Freedom of speech with US characteristics - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    Well yeah… It’s the only guy I know famous enough to being criticing Putin getting punished for it. Not saying he is a saint or whatever or that he didn’t do other stuff I don’t know the guy enough for that, but that the main reason is criticing Puting sure. Sure enough there might be other people detained for criticing Putin, specially recently about the war but I don’t know know them.

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      10 months ago
      Video: Alexei Navalny Compares Muslims to Cockroaches, Supports Gun Rights in Russia (2007)

      Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny advocates for gun rights in Russia, while comparing immigrants and Muslims from Russia’s southern regions to cockroaches and suggests they need to be exterminated.

      The U.K. arrested almost 10 times as many people for social media posts as Russia did last year. Now maybe we could say they should be arresting more fuckers like Navalny. Haha

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        10 months ago

        Well yeah… But most don’t get years on prison that’s for sure and much better and humane prisions for sure.

        In any case yeah the UK is pretty shitty as well on that I agree, specially on the late governments.

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          They’re not locking people up for being communists, unlike post-2014 Ukraine (locking up is putting it mildly they are torturing people to death openly on Telegram). Here in the US people are getting harassed by the FBI for being Chinese. They should be going and shutting down the people spreading hate speech here, but they’re into it.

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            10 months ago

            Well yeah, I don’t think I need one, it’s pretty common knowledge. Yeah they are not Switzerland prisons either not gonna says the stay will be awesome, and tbh it shouldn’t be for some motherfuckers…

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              10 months ago

              If only I could think of a high profile example of a journalist imprisoned in cruel and unusual circumstances in the UK to contradict your “common knowledge”.

              🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔💭

              Can you think of anyone off the top of your head? One last chance.

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                10 months ago

                I will be honest not sure, Assange? In any case I was talking about the prisons in general no specific individuals.

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                  10 months ago

                  So why doesn’t Assange count? “Oh it’s fine, he’s just an unusual political prisoner, they wouldn’t treat ordinary people like me that way.”

                  Yet they haul in random TikTokers now. 3000 mfs arrested over politically incorrect likes and shares calling for an end to war.

                  So, why doesn’t that go for Navalny? The guy talking about going school shooter on fellow citizens? Why is his treatment assumed to be the same as the 400 other people arrested in the whole country?

                  Assange literally worked with The Guardian and WAPO etcetera to protect NATO intelligence agents and they betrayed him anyways.

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                    Man this thread was about the prisons not Navalni, it has been a while we stopped talking about him.

                    Yes Assange is another example of lack of freedom of speech. But the idea was an example of Russia on the original comment, which again down here we stopped talking about.