[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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