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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was ready to say, "Wow, I guess I won't be going to Tunisia, even though that's on my bucket list", but now that I ve read the whole article, I think I'm good to go there still.

That guy was really dumb to do that. Yes, the punishment is harsh.  But, do you remember the case where that young man was caned simply for spitting gum on the street in Singapore? But that’s the law there and it applied equally to everybody.

When in Rome, people!  Just don’t tempt fate, that’s all.[/quote]

Wow. Some of you really will make excuses for anything. The law and what is just and moral are not the same thing. No one should die for a Facebook post, law or not. [/quote]

No one seems that concerned about the UK putting people in prison for Facebook posts. If people post racist things, they go to jail. I'd venture to say that most democrats support that. And if you support that, then you're okay with criminalizing speech in general, even if you balk at the death sentence. [/quote]

The UK posts in question generally advocated for physical violence against groups of people or individuals. While those posts would not trigger police investigation in the US (the calls for violence were either said tongue-in-cheek or too generalized), the UK has always had more restrictive speech laws than the US. The speech would be investigated and prosecuted ex-poste after an incident of violence directly tied to the speech, whereas in the UK the speech is investigated and prosecuted ex-ante. Reasonable people can disagree on the correct approach in a civilized society.

Don't believe the half-truths you read on social media. Go to the source materials - i.e., the language of the posts. [/quote]

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