[HN Gopher] Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeti...
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Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at
supreme leader
Author : geox
Score : 39 points
Date : 2024-09-02 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.npr.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.npr.org)
| DataDive wrote:
| And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a
| year's salary.
|
| ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
| OKRainbowKid wrote:
| Source?
|
| What are the fines for using a banned service in the US?
| SR2Z wrote:
| The only ways for a service to be banned in the US are by
| court order (i.e. judge says the site has to come down) which
| carries no penalties for visitors, and sanctions in which
| case visiting is generally still OK but paying the site is a
| no-no.
|
| In general, users never face fines in the US even for
| visiting "banned" pages.
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| Reuters, for example[1]: "Moraes ordered that those who
| continued to access X via VPNs be fined up to 50,000 reais
| ($9,000) per day."
|
| [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/lula-says-musk-must-
| respe...
| ignoramceisblis wrote:
| --per day. Fined a year's salary per day of use of X/Twitter.
| hippich wrote:
| Look up what for people in Belarus are being locked up daily
| since 2020. Emojis, likes, simply caught with preview of the news
| cached on their phone... We call border crossing, either on land
| or thought airport, a "Belarusian roulette", because your never
| know... And it is not prominent people, just regular folks. And
| it is not in completely different culture - it is a very close to
| western traditions country, right across Poland's border...
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