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With all the issues in the US and generally wrong direction, I can’t remember them ever arresting people for mean tweets in the way that Germany and the UK have
by cpursley 4mo ago
With all the issues in the US and generally wrong direction, I can’t remember them ever arresting people for mean tweets in the way that Germany and the UK have. They all seem to be running full speed towards a surveillance state.
- solumunus 4mo agoThat’s not the EU.
- lmm 4mo ago> With all the issues in the US and generally wrong direction, I can’t remember them ever arresting people for mean tweets in the way that Germany and the UK have. Then you haven't been paying attention. The constitution prevents citizens from being convicted, but that doesn't stop arrests or being turned away at the border (even for permanent residents who've lived in the US for decades), and US citizens don't seem to care, so it's cold comfort for many of us.
- cpursley 4mo ago[flagged]
- lmm 4mo agoA 30 second search found me https://www.fire.org/news/he-spent-37-days-jail-facebook-post-now-fire-has-his-back https://www.fire.org/news/he-spent-37-days-jail-facebook-pos... . You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. (And you're pretty thoroughly proving my point about US citizens not caring about anyone else)
- nxm 4mo agoYay you found a single instance, and more over there are legal means of recourse, unlike the the UK when you’re jailed or fined and that’s it
- wat10000 4mo agoDon't give a sarcastic reply about finding a single instance, when the request was literally "Please share a single instance." It's just silly.
- hdgvhicv 4mo agohttps://youtu.be/tB3WVygAM8I https://youtu.be/tB3WVygAM8I
- t-3 4mo agoThe US has arrested many people for speech, and even made charges stick many time. A famous historical example is charging Eugene Debs (and many others) with sedition for opposing WWI and the draft. There was at least one case of being arrested for political social media posts, already linked in adjacent threads. Threats of violence or even sufficiently harsh language to cause fear-for-life can be a crime. "Revenge porn" and deepfakes have had laws passed curtailing them and prosecutions made. The US is certainly less restrictive of speech than other countries, but you're nowhere near entirely free to say or post anything you want.
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- dminik 4mo agoThe posts don't even need to be offensive, just uncomfortable: https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-arrested-facebook-post-concerning-trinidad-water-poisoning https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-arrested-facebook-post-c...
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- vrganj 4mo agoWhy does it need to be a US citizen? Is mistreatment okay if they're not a citizen? That clause reads extremely chauvinist to me.
- leptons 4mo ago>and US citizens don't seem to care I think maybe you haven't been paying attention. Most of us do care. Trump's approval rating is pretty low at 36%, and his disapproval rating is high. Just because he's still causing chaos doesn't mean the majority of us don't care about it. There's just no legal way to remove him, and his cronies simply won't do it - there's not enough votes in congress or he would have been gone after his first or second impeachment. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5861764/trumps-job-approval-rating-has-dropped-to-36-a-new-npr-pbs-news-marist-poll-shows https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5861764/trumps-job-appr...
- lysium 4mo agoI understand your point, however I don’t buy „there's just no legal way to remove him“. With so low ratings where are the daily protests against such type of government? Surely, nationwide daily protests would make elected officials reconsider their positions, given an upcoming midterm election, while there still is one. Don’t get me wrong, I know the thousands reasons why you won’t join a protest, I’m „guilty“ myself. I just want to argue against your argument that I quoted because this puts all of us in an unhelpful victim mentality.
- rob74 4mo agoThen again, nationwide daily protests would give the Trump administration an excuse to send ICE / the army / whoever else they can send to the cities where the protests take place (I guess they would be mostly blue-leaning ones) to "restore order", and at the same time lay the groundwork for influencing the November elections. But the turnout at the periodic nationwide "No Kings" protests has been very good, and they have fortunately stayed peaceful.
- throwaway27448 4mo agoYou'd think a "no oligarchs" protest would be a little more useful given that we aren't likely to revert to a monarchy any time soon. checks notes what's this? The protests were organized by oligarchic lackeys? Hmm
- nxm 4mo agoA few people being stopped to check if their residency is valid is more than fine considering the last admin flooded the country with 20mil migrants with its open border policy
- Latty 4mo agoThey literally arrested people for quoting Charlie Kirk in tweets after his death.
- rob74 4mo agoBy "mean tweets" I assume you mean death threats? How about not threatening to kill someone on social media, is that so hard to do?
- delis-thumbs-7e 4mo ago[x] Doesn’t know UK not in EU [x] Thinks people inciting violence online a free speech -issue [x] Calls Germany a surveillance state when US uses Palantir - a US company - to openly spy on its citizens X seems to work great. Inciting men in with gambling, porn, crypto, ai and other broistan staples, then feeding them far-right nonsense info points.
- seba_dos1 4mo agoYes, the US doesn't arrest people for death threats on Twitter, it's too busy actually killing those that oppose ICE.
- Accacin 4mo agoI can immediately tell you're not arguing in "good faith" when you resort to "mean tweets". The numbers commonly being reporting include stalkers, criminals, etc. You don't get arrested for being politically incorrect in the UK. You get arrested for posting something threatening, harassing, inciteful, or grossly indecent. Also, being arrested and being charged are two completely separate things.
- gpvos 4mo agoI know of many examples from the US and none from Germany and the UK. If they're truly so plentiful, please enlighten me with a link or two of the latter.