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Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts (www.rferl.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a guy who got locked up for saying that if they try a local Jan 6th in Florida people need to be armed to resist. Dude got sentenced to 4 years of prison for posting about defending the country from Jan 6thers.

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/#:~:text=On%20Tuesday%2C%20a%20Florida%20judge,of%20the%20January%206%20riots.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Wow that's disgusting

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