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Be careful what you post on Facebook in the UK, because if it's deemed "offensive" the police can just show up at your door and arrest you

Bro, this is like a scene out of Fahrenheit 451 and I'm not even exaggerating. This man made some posts online which were deemed "offensive" by the government, so guess what happened to him?

If you guessed, "The police showed up and arrested him for his offensive Facebook posts," [ding, ding, ding] you're our lucky winner!

I'm arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network under section 127 of the Communications Act ... This is in relation to some comments that you've made on a Facebook page.

Six Christians arrested in Paris for driving around in bus marked "Stop attacks on Christians"

6 Christians arrested for driving a bus around in Paris that read ‘Stop Attacks On Christians' on the side.

According to @CitizenGO, 6 of their team members were forced to spend the night in jail for denouncing the Olympics opening ceremony.

Three women were forced to undress so police could 'look for drugs' according to @CF_Farrow.

The arrests [come] as CitizenGo has gathered 380,000 signatures demanding the International Olympic Committee issue an apology for the opening ceremony.

French authorities reportedly demanded that they remove the messaging from the side of the bus.

Six Christians arrested in Paris for driving around in bus marked "Stop attacks on Christians"

Why is it written in English when they are in France?

11-Year-Old Girl & Woman, 34, Stabbed in London – Citizens Fear Arrest for Commenting

X Stops Operations in Brazil after ‘censorship orders’ from Judge Alexandre de Moraes
Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders.

He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions. Despite our numerous appeals to the Supreme Court not being heard, the Brazilian public not being informed about these orders and our Brazilian staff having no responsibility or control over whether content is blocked on our platform, Moraes has chosen to threaten our staff in Brazil rather than respect the law or due process.

As a result, to protect our staff's safety, we have decided to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately.

The X service remains available to the people of Brazil. We are deeply saddened that we have been forced to make this decision. The responsibility lies solely with Alexandre de Moraes.

His actions are incompatible with democratic government.

The people of Brazil have a choice to make - democracy, or (Judge) Alexandre de Moraes.

British man who quit job to care for wife sentenced to 3 years for mean tweets ... come see the words that sent him to prison

Three years in prison for, at least in part, violating the Communications Act of 2003, section 127:

Improper use of public electronic communications network

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he —

(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or

(b) causes any such message or matter to be so sent.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he —

(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,

(b) causes such a message to be sent; or

(c) persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to anything done in the course of providing a programme service (within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990.

https://x.com/mtracey/status/1826657225924022662

In more good RFK news, MSN (citing the Daily Caller) ran an op-ed about a story completely ignored by corporate media, headlined “Judge Finds RFK Jr. Can Bring Censorship Lawsuit Against Biden Admin After Supreme Court Rejects States' Challenge.”

The Supreme Court disappointed many folks earlier this year by vacating an anti-censorship preliminary injunction, because the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden failed to show direct censorship, instead of sneaky government euphemisms and official “suggestions” to take down posts that weren’t really suggestions.

But Kennedy separately filed a companion case, and the evidence in his case is clearer than was the evidence in Missouri. Kennedy’s emails show the government being much more obvious about wanting his anti-vaccine posts deleted.

Yesterday, Louisiana Judge Terry Doughty found that Kennedy’s case meets the new Supreme Court “direct censorship”’ standard and may move forward toward a new injunction. Progress.

Kathy Boston
6 hrs ago

I tried to post Kennedys speech on my page and it got blocked by Facebook. "goes against their community standards"

"You're violating my First Amendment rights": Arizona woman goes viral for getting arrested at city council meeting

Fun fact of the day: You can be arrested in Surprise, Arizona, for making complaints about a city employee during a city council meeting. Not an exaggeration, not a joke, just plain reality in the City of Surprise.

Here's the city policy which is printed on the back of each public speaker form that citizens hand in before council meetings:

Oral communications during the City Council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by name or by any other reference that tends to identify him/her.

And here's what happens when you break this rule and speak freely about your public servants — in this case discussing their salaries:

Rebekah Massie, 32, was arrested Tuesday night and cited on suspicion of trespassing, a class 3 misdemeanor. The arrest came after she was removed from the meeting at the behest of Mayor Skip Hall who accused her of breaking the city's rule against complaining about city employees while making public comments. ...

Arrested for her free speech.

This one's definitely going to a higher court, and I'll wager that Mrs. Massie will win.

Because making a rule that you can't complain about a public employee during a city council meeting is 100% a violation of the First Amendment.