RE: The new Terms of Service is a concern to me, a resident of China
I may not know the intriciate layers of law behind the US, a country I've never visited, but I certainly know what free speech is, hence my often touted frustration of the attack against it in the UK.
But even so, Nowhere is perfect, but I still think, unless statistics show otherwise, that the US has the greatest amount of freedom to speak what one desires. Protests are a fuzzy area; they could have been illegally operated for example (this has been the case on some occasions), and even if that were the case, it's still true that the majority of incarcerated individuals are in for drugs, and the vast majority of the rest are for violent crimes - 52.4% in state prisons in 2008.
There would be a small fraction in there for 'subversion of state' or criticism of government. Again - I've no doubt this does happen, but it's more the exception than the rule, compared to anywhere else I can think of. The only other way I can see it is if they secretly arrest hundreds of thousands and skip them out of the statistics to trick me but... no evidence
the best strategy for destroying free speech is to do it indirectly.
I need statistics proving this true first, I dont see many other "first world" countries rounding up protesters and taking direct action against political figures (like sending police to their house likely in an effort to kill them in a "welfare check", luckily in the recent example they werent home)
the police here directly give support to fascist activities in an effort to suppress every freedom of minorities, not just speech.
also, the majority of the upper gov just ignores the law (has for a long time). So it really doesnt matter how well you know it
I believe @mobb is making this post due to my comments on the Steemitblog's TOS post.
Plenty of European Countries lock people up on all sides of the spectrum just for being offensive online.
https://staging.busy.org/@steemitblog/updated-steemit-com-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy#@truthforce/re-surfermarly-re-truthforce-re-surfermarly-re-truthforce-re-steemitblog-updated-steemit-com-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy-20180616t215118994z
i read the first link, it seems like they are arresting alt-right, which is fine by me
Anyone who posts "offensive speech" can be arrested in the UK. That includes you, me, someone from the LGBTQAAIYP, white people, black people, Christians, Muslims, you name it.
Unjust laws are unjust period.
Yes let the divide and conquer continue. They have won.
lol the police literally go out of their way to go to fascist rallies and protect them.
Its left vs right, not auth vs lib lmao