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I guess the UK are having their pimmelgate [0]. That was quick, it took 3 years in Germany. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-ge

• xnorswap 4y ago
  UK is a decade ahead of you there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial
  • Semaphor 4y ago
    That was for the last law, doesn’t count ;)
• notahacker 4y ago
  We've had this stuff for decades; the law is a 2003 one based on a 1988 one. People have been jailed under the relevant law for tasteless jokes about murder victims, fined for sharing a pictures of a police officer with a penis drawn on his head and held in cells overnight for sharing material offending the memory of dead soldiers. The difference is this time the person indirectly insulted gay people, so people get to shoehorn "anti-woke" talking points into it.