Tweets Send Man To Prison For 10 Years

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Just be thankful that we live in a country where brave men and women have laid down their lives just so we could make fun of politicians in our tweets without going to jail.

This is far from the first time someone has landed in jail over their politically dissident Twitter activity, but it’s a stark reminder of how some regimes can hand out over-the-top sentences for what amounts to a Jimmy Kimmel bit in the US.
 
Hooray for (mostly) unabridged freedom of speech*!

* except in times of emergency, whims of individuals in law enforcement, as it applies to minors, inferiority of actual individuals' speech to abstract constructions, whistleblowers and many other sad things. But at least we can make fun of politicians on twitter without going to jail!
 
Going to be honest, equating this to debtors prison is really a stretch. Sure it's wrong and they are abusing a loophole, but it isn't debtor's prison by any stretch.
Well what do you call being thrown in jail for not being able to repay a debt?
 
Should say "Tweets send [Emirates] man..."

Thanks so much for the clickbate.
 
Well what do you call being thrown in jail for not being able to repay a debt?

You arent being thrown in jail for failure to pay a debt. You are being thrown in jail for failure to adhere to a criminal judgement.
 
In that traffic ticket article the guy did not "go into debt" for $810, he was penalized for a traffic citation and failed to pay the fine.
 
Haven't we recently made progress to get rid of that nonsense?
Not yet. Much of it expires at midnight on Sunday, but it will almost certainly be renewed, mostly intact*, soon.

* besides the illegal parts regarding bulk phone records collection, instead changing to communications companies being required to save records and release them when the rubber stamp FISA and other courts grant pseudo-subpoenas.
 
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