TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them] to news • edit-23 years agoTwitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweetexternal-linkmessage-square32 fedilinkarrow-up199file-text
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minus-squareblobjim [he/him]hexbear9·3 years agoThat's not a feature of the US lol. They will absolutely target people for all kinds of things, usually doesn't get any attention. I think the "punishing people for wrongthink" industry is simply far more decentralized and ingrained in the US. link
minus-squarebombshell [none/use name]hexbear6·3 years agoThe secret is that they figured out a way around the First Amendment. If a private corporation does it on behalf of the government, then it's OK. Say, what's it called when corporate and government interests merge, and you can't tell where one stops and the other begins? link
minus-squareiwishthiswasicq [none/use name]hexbear3·3 years agoyeah its from private institutions normally though, unless you are a popular figure / in a subversive group link
That's not a feature of the US lol. They will absolutely target people for all kinds of things, usually doesn't get any attention. I think the "punishing people for wrongthink" industry is simply far more decentralized and ingrained in the US.
The secret is that they figured out a way around the First Amendment. If a private corporation does it on behalf of the government, then it's OK.
Say, what's it called when corporate and government interests merge, and you can't tell where one stops and the other begins?
yeah its from private institutions normally though, unless you are a popular figure / in a subversive group