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In Germany you literally get your house raided if you critize a politician online. A journalist got a suspended sentence because he posted a pic of then-interio
by sunaookami 1y ago
In Germany you literally get your house raided if you critize a politician online. A journalist got a suspended sentence because he posted a pic of then-interior minister holding a sign that was edited to read "I hate freedom of speech".
- graemep 1y agoLots of bad things in the west, certainly, but there is a huge difference between a suspended sentence and getting murdered: https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/sri-lanka-failing-to-probe-journalist-murders-press-group-idUSCOL168351/ https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/sri-lanka-failing-to... Picking on not the worst country in the world, but one I know (and was living in at the time this was at its worst). Things have changed there since, thankfully.