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Re:Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters by krylonkid on Friday October 25, 2013 @01:34PM (#6613117)
Sounds like the UK where you can be jailed for a tweet.
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Re:Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters by eigenvector on Friday October 25, 2013 @03:05PM (#6613798)
You can be jailed for a tweet pretty much anywhere if that tweet is a direct, credible threat of violence.
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Re:Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters by krylonkid on Friday October 25, 2013 @03:10PM (#6613831)
In the UK you do jail time if it hurts someone's feelings.
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Re:Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters by sanityinc on Saturday October 26, 2013 @01:54AM (#6616518)
The law responsible for that was recently overturned: http://reformsection5.org.uk/

In short, it is no longer illegal to use what a policeman or court might judge to be "insulting words or behaviour".

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