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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by C4stor on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:39AM (#18346610)
> there are countless examples of prosecution that would be summarily dismissed here in the States.

Care to provide let's say 2 such examples ?

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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by manigandham on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:03PM (#18346853)
Articles from various perspectives with many examples within:

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/17/europes-free-speech-apo...

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/07/17113/

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/01/13/germany-is-silen...

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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by dahdum on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:27PM (#18347081)
From the first article you linked...just...wow. Soo many U.S. progressives would suffer under that law.

> In 2015, France’s highest court upheld the criminal conviction of 12 pro-Palestinian activists for violating restrictions against hate speech. Their crime? Wearing T-shirts that advocated a boycott of Israel — “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel,”

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