Re:U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight c...
by sixstringtheory on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:07PM
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I think so too, sounds like a big stick the govt can use with wide latitude, to make an example out of something they don’t like.
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Re:U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight c...
by int_19h on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:06PM
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It's not uncommon, unfortunately (although the penalties are usually not so extreme). Usually it also happens to be the countries that have some large-scale territorial disputes with neighbors.
For example, in Russia, there's a law against "public calls to actions that would violate the territorial sovereignty". In practice, this means that saying something like "Crimea was illegally occupied" is technically illegal, and occasionally enforced.
I recall India mulled a similar law with Jammu and Kashmir in mind, although I don't think they ended up passing that.
Re:U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight c...
by mikeash on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:07PM
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It’s an interesting contrast with, say, sovereign citizens in the US. Law enforcement basically doesn’t care what they think about their sovereignty, they just treat them like any other person.