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Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by sunaookami on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:28AM (#45114916)
In Germany you literally get your house raided if you critize a politician online. A journalist got a suspended sentence because he posted a pic of then-interior minister holding a sign that was edited to read "I hate freedom of speech".
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Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by graemep on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:16AM (#45116804)
Lots of bad things in the west, certainly, but there is a huge difference between a suspended sentence and getting murdered: https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/sri-lanka-failing-to...

Picking on not the worst country in the world, but one I know (and was living in at the time this was at its worst). Things have changed there since, thankfully.

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