• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It started during covid, but nobody cared because the people being locked up were anti vaxxers. It didn’t stop there. It never does.

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      4 days ago

      Give us literally one example of someone being thrown in prison for expressing anti vax views, we’ll all wait.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 days ago

          According to the Evening Standard newspaper, the leaflet featured a cartoon of the Auschwitz death camp where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished, with the sign above its gate changed from “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) to “Vaccines are safe path to freedom”.

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                I mean didn’t even take the time to see it wasn’t from being antivax, it was because they were being assholes to others or the cops asking them to stop

                The 73-year-old is suspected of malicious communications and public nuisance, and the 37-year-old was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. They have been released on police bail until a date in early March.

                • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  The 73-year-old is suspected of malicious communications and public nuisance, and the 37-year-old was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. They have been released on police bail until a date in early March.

                  Hey look again from your own article it wasn’t because they were anti vax

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                    2 days ago

                    Yes that is the very problematic and dangerous mechanism by which they stifle free speech, and you won’t care until Palestine action people are similarly charged. Which is my entire point.