Load of bollocks, this meme is tiresome. It's the USA that fires people and jails people for a month for social media posts

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-meme-tennessee-arres...

Or if you want some actual context rather than twitter outrage bait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I

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bpodgursky 9 hours ago | parent [-]

There are literally people in the UK in jail for tweets deemed to be incitement to violence. Maybe you think it's a good thing! I don't care! But it's ridiculous to argue over the facts on the ground.

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gzread 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What were the tweets?

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bpodgursky 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

> Lucy Connolly, 42, whose husband serves on Northampton Town Council, pleaded guilty in September after posting the expletive-ridden message on X the day three girls were stabbed to death in July 2024.

> She was released from HMP Peterborough earlier after she was handed a 31-month prison sentence in October at Birmingham Crown Court.

Like this one? I mean this is not some hard to find secret.

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like_any_other 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't have examples of tweets handy, but here are stickers that get you 2 years in UK jail: They reportedly contained slogans such as “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066”, “Mass immigration is white genocide”, “intolerance is a virtue” and “they seek conquest not asylum.”

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867 (does not quote a single sticker that he was jailed for)

https://www.gbnews.com/news/sam-melia-free-speech-activists-...

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iso1631 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Ahh, the famous "criminal damage is tweeting" case

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gzread 8 hours ago | parent [-]

"putting stickers on things is criminal damage deserving of prison time" is no better of a position

But we should probably pay attention to what was written on the stickers.

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iso1631 8 hours ago | parent [-]

America literally jails people for quoting the US president

The UK jails people for extreme incitement

	▲	like_any_other 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Extreme incitement to changing government immigration policy.

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iso1631 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No you are thinking of AMERICA as I linked