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demmiblue

(36,873 posts) Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:53 PM Nov 2017

Russian man sent to penal colony for insulting officials online

Source: The Guardian

A court in St Petersburg has sentenced a man to two years in a penal colony for insulting high-ranking Russian officials on social media.

Vladimir Timoshenko, 43, was found guilty of writing a post on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte that “contained text of humiliating and insulting nature towards high-placed officials”, the court said in a statement on Monday.

Timoshenko wrote the post in 2015 while serving a six-year prison sentence, the statement added, without giving details of his previous conviction.

In the post, which has since been removed from Vkontakte, Timoshenko called on Russians to rise up against an “unpopular regime”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/russian-man-sent-to-penal-colony-for-insulting-officials-online?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews#link_time=1511802210

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Russian man sent to penal colony for insulting officials online (Original Post) demmiblue Nov 2017 OP

When this happens here, and it will soon, relatively soon, will the Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #1

This isn't going to happen in the US snooper2 Nov 2017 #3

No they will be cheering dembotoz Nov 2017 #4

That's because they don't get it, they never get it FakeNoose Nov 2017 #14

Bet they will think the shower in the camp will be golden dembotoz Nov 2017 #15

No it won't, but Trump is probably salivating over the idea. n/t demmiblue Nov 2017 #6

The ONLY thing stopping it is the Dems taking back the house, or it absolutely happens Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #7

No, it won't. But we absolutely DO need majorities for other reasons... demmiblue Nov 2017 #8

Took me a minute to find this one Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #11

Martin Shkreli jailed after Facebook post about Hillary Clinton TomVilmer Nov 2017 #12

You mean Shrkeli called for a violent uprising? Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #13

Every year since DU started Dreamer Tatum Nov 2017 #9

Use it against them. LiberalFighter Nov 2017 #2

In totally unrelated news, Russia wants to do away with anonymity on the Internet. DetlefK Nov 2017 #5

Was that similar to laughing at Sessions? C Moon Nov 2017 #10

aka gulag. nt Javaman Nov 2017 #16

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. When this happens here, and it will soon, relatively soon, will the

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:55 PM

Nov 2017

deplorables notice?

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

3. This isn't going to happen in the US

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:00 PM

Nov 2017

For all of the doom and gloom we will survive the Drumpf years intact. Should be the last stand of the old white fundies actually. I wonder how many will die off that voted for Drumpf before 2020. That should give us a percentage point or two alone LOL

dembotoz

(16,812 posts)

4. No they will be cheering

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:01 PM

Nov 2017

FakeNoose

(32,681 posts)

14. That's because they don't get it, they never get it

Reply to dembotoz (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:53 PM

Nov 2017

dembotoz

(16,812 posts)

15. Bet they will think the shower in the camp will be golden

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #14)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:09 PM

Nov 2017

demmiblue

(36,873 posts)

6. No it won't, but Trump is probably salivating over the idea. n/t

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:06 PM

Nov 2017

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

7. The ONLY thing stopping it is the Dems taking back the house, or it absolutely happens

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:06 PM

Nov 2017

demmiblue

(36,873 posts)

8. No, it won't. But we absolutely DO need majorities for other reasons...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:13 PM

Nov 2017

women's agency over their own bodies, the environment, healthcare, policies that support/respect minorities, protecting the poor, the courts, reestablishing our place in the world, etc. ad nauseam.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

11. Took me a minute to find this one

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:18 PM

Nov 2017

In Texas last winter, a working 18-year-old was jailed, and is still being held on $500,000 bail, because a Canadian woman reported a single, frivolous Facebook post that he had marked "LOL" (laughing out loud) and "jk" (just kidding). Ignoring those cues, local police went ahead and charged him with "terroristic threatening." Really? That is darkly humorous even in post-terrified America.

https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/criminalizing-free-speech

I can find more...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-comments-arrest-prosecution

Robert Peralta’s life was derailed by a single Facebook comment.

When the San Franciscan saw a well-known local activist had posted about being “choked” and “slammed” by a sheriff’s deputy at city hall, Peralta fired off a short response: “Wow, brother they wanna hit our general. It’s time to strike back. Let’s burn this motherfucker’s house down.”

Peralta, a 35-year-old activist and musician, didn’t think twice about the 23 January Facebook thread until two months later, when he learned that police had issued a warrant for his arrest – accusing him of threatening to kill law enforcement.

Peralta’s felony criminal case is part of what civil rights campaigners say is a disturbing trend of police and prosecutors targeting activists for social media posts, arresting users over innocuous political messages that constitute free speech.

How far is the jump from here to a Gorsuch future? not far...Gorsuch and the like will absolutely find ways to jail political opponents.

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)

12. Martin Shkreli jailed after Facebook post about Hillary Clinton

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #11)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:37 PM

Nov 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/09/13/martin-shkreli-apologizes-for-facebook-post-about-hillary-clinton/

This happens also in the USA since in most countries there are laws controlling what you can say - and the Internet does not change that.
If you are calling for a violent uprising against your government, and the threat looks bad enough, you will get a visit and maybe then some time in a prison camp. Actions or even plans are not needed, especially if you are a Muslim.