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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This news story is over a year ago, and the US locks up people all the time for political reasons

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Can you provide proof that people in today's US have been given jail time for posting online government criticism?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not really, the one is a whistleblower leaking highly confidential information and the other is a simple person speaking out against their government's actions.

I'm not by any means saying that Manning didn't do the right thing and deserves jail, just that it isn't the same case.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://fortune.com/2023/04/18/russia-propaganda-elections-4-americans-charged-black-empowerment/

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-and-russian-intelligence-officers-charged-conspiring-use-us-citizens-illegal

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/20/black-liberation-organizers-indicted-for-opposing-war/

All the same story, different sources (or bias). not including the NAFO dog community sabatoging that eco socialist (Dimitri Lascaris) trying to make peace talks in canada

edited for more clairty & details and spell check.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one is a whistleblower leaking highly confidential information and the other is a simple person speaking out against their government's actions

This level of detail is not included in the linked article. The article says "she placed materials about Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine on the Internet that contradicted official Defense Ministry statements." From the article, we have no idea what those materials were. Maybe they included classified information, maybe they included actually false information, maybe they included incitements to violence, we don't know.

Note also that the article is from Radio Free Europe, a U.S. propaganda outlet:

Radio Free Europe was created and grew in its early years through the efforts of the National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE), an anti-communist CIA front organization that was formed by Allen Dulles in New York City in 1949. RFE/RL received funds covertly from the CIA until 1972. During RFE's earliest years of existence, the CIA and U.S. Department of State issued broad policy directives, and a system evolved where broadcast policy was determined through negotiation between them and RFE staff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://vkrizis.ru/obschestvo/olga-smirnova-prigovorena-k-shesti-godam-za-sem-postov/

If you search her name in Cyrillic you can find Russian sources (.ru domains are managed by Russia, no?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

leaking highly confidential information

It's okay to have no free speech rights as long as the government tells you in advance you don't have them

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