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hyperventilator
on Aug 22, 2013
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Four fears for authoritarians
Yeah, in some parts of the "first world" you can do prison time for a tweet.
hahainternet
on Aug 22, 2013
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You can do prison time for a tweet anywhere that has any harassment, libel, obscenity, juror protection or many many other laws. What's the betting you only disagree with a single subcategory of these.
hyperventilator
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I suppose you can defend giving someone jailtime for hurt feelings, but it sounds pretty stupid to me.
hahainternet
on Aug 22, 2013
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Well I'll just go let all those victims of harassment know that it doesn't matter how
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feel, hyperventilator has overridden them.
hyperventilator
on Aug 22, 2013
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Yay, nanny state!
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