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Sadly, everyone knows what you mean and vagueposting is no protection. I'm reminded of the (apocryphal?) Russian protestor arrested for holding a blank piece o

• bloak 1y ago
  I don't know about Russia but there seem to be loads of cases of people being arrested (or detained or harrassed by police) for holding up a blank piece of paper, including one case in Cornwall: https://netpol.org/2023/02/10/cornish-protester-assaulted-and-threatened-with-arrest-for-blank-piece-of-paper/ https://netpol.org/2023/02/10/cornish-protester-assaulted-an... In Singapore someone was charged for holding up a piece of cardboard with a smiley face drawn on it: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/11/26/public-order-in-singapore-has-been-shaken-by-a-hand-drawn-smiley-face https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/11/26/public-order-in-si...
• throw-the-towel 1y ago
  That was a Soviet-era joke, then it actually happened several times under Putin.