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We can look at russia arresting random foreign nationals for bullshit reasons right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/brittney-griner-russia.html

She did commit a crime by travelling to Russia with an illegal substance, for which she got roughly the same sentence as a typical Russian would get if caught with a similar amount of drugs. This case doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary, except for the "criminal" being a famous foreigner.

Using a VPN in China is also a crime.

That the party ignores to access Twitter for propaganda and privileged people ignore for entertainment.

The party isn't technically the government of China.

Half of 20-year-olds in StP and Moscow would be in prison if that was true. Her arrest and imprisonment was entirely political.

They also don't cross borders with such things, as a foreigner, I'm not defending it but it was stupid to do.

Of course a foreigner is going to be possibly vetted more.

“Young tourist is now facing death by firing squad in Bali after cocaine was found in her luggage: Here are the Indonesian rules everyone needs to know”

This is a headline from this year.

It turns out that when you break the law in other countries, you might get punished for it.

Who could have possibly expected that, right?

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