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by solenoid09375 days ago |
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upvoteby JustSkyfall5 days ago|
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> In the UK you get thrown in prison for making a slightly unfriendly tweet.

Do you? The closest thing I can think about is how someone was jailed for encouraging arson attacks on asylum hotels. I'd be extremely surprised if the US had zero cases of somebody receiving a police visit after threatening to kill the President or bomb a school or something...

(FWIW I do think the UK needs stronger free speech protections, but saying that you'll be immediately jailed for writing unfriendly tweets is a huge stretch)

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upvoteby subscribed5 days ago|
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Yes. And also you are threatened with prison for holding in front of a court a placard with [pretty much] a quote from the plaque displayed on the most important criminal court.

You're threatened with arrest for holding empty placard.

You're jailed for years for holding a zoom meeting planning a peaceful climate-emergency related demonstration. At the same time judge threatens the defendants with contempt of court sanctions if they dare to explain to juries why they planned to protest.

You're jailed for opposing a genocide.

You're jailed and called a terrorist for painting planes helping to bomb civilians - the exact same thing the sitting PM was defending a person in court some years ago (as a human rights lawyer, the irony).

You're arrested for wearing a T-shirt "I support plasticine action" (not a typo, "Plasticine").

We could go for hours.

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upvoteby BoorishBears5 days ago|
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https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

Are they really making 12,000 arrests a year over tweets and posts?

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upvoteby 10xDev5 days ago|
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>the quality of discussion on HN has gone to shit, i miss when model released used to have actual informed takes from people that used them or substantive discussion about the system card

Your comment earlier.

Edit: also, not much change in the last 10 years in prison population. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04...

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upvoteby solenoid09375 days ago|
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https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

12k people a year thrown in prison for spicy tweets

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upvoteby 10xDev5 days ago|
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So roughly 0.017% of the population.

"Spicy tweets" including:

sending false communications

sending threatening communications

sending or showing flashing images electronically to people with epilepsy intending to cause them harm (‘epilepsy trolling’)

encouraging or assisting serious self-harm

sending a photograph or film of a person’s genitals (‘cyberflashing’)

sharing or threatening to share intimate photographs or film

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upvoteby solenoid09375 days ago|
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Or a lot more commonly - critique of immigration policy
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upvoteby 10xDev5 days ago|
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You are obviously invested in this narrative driven by Musk but you need to back it up properly.
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upvoteby matthewmacleod5 days ago|
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Why did you choose to lie about this today? I'm genuinely interesting – this is trivially obviously not true, so what motivated this?
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upvoteby starshadowx25 days ago|
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That is not a true statement.

Here's a good break down and explanation of what that number actually means - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I

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upvoteby dgellow5 days ago|
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That link says “12k arrests”, not thrown to prison! It’s also not clear how reliable that data is
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upvoteby matthewmacleod5 days ago|
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In the UK you get thrown in prison for making a slightly unfriendly tweet. Freedom of speech simply does not exist.

"These days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and you'll be thrown in jail."

It's just not true. Where are you getting this nonsense from?

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