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Troll post. Adds nothing to the conversation, just wants to inject a tired meme.

What is the relevance of law and law enforcement around online messaging to renewable energy legislation?

Load of bollocks, this meme is tiresome. It's the USA that fires people and jails people for a month for social media posts

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-meme-tennessee-arres...

Or if you want some actual context rather than twitter outrage bait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I

There are literally people in the UK in jail for tweets deemed to be incitement to violence. Maybe you think it's a good thing! I don't care! But it's ridiculous to argue over the facts on the ground.

No you are thinking of AMERICA as I linked

What were the tweets?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

> Lucy Connolly, 42, whose husband serves on Northampton Town Council, pleaded guilty in September after posting the expletive-ridden message on X the day three girls were stabbed to death in July 2024.

> She was released from HMP Peterborough earlier after she was handed a 31-month prison sentence in October at Birmingham Crown Court.

Like this one? I mean this is not some hard to find secret.

Missing a piece of that?

>Connolly, from Northampton, called for "mass deportation now" and urged her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers.

This is probably not considered protected speech in the US either

Lol there would be 40 million Americans in jail if this wasn't protected speech. Either way, doesn't matter I made this claim two ways:

> the UK will put you in jail for tweets > people in the UK in jail for tweets deemed to be incitement to violence

and there is no question whatsoever that what I said was true. Like it or hate it, I don't care, these are true statements.

> This is probably not considered protected speech in the US either

You're absolutely right

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-man-charged-threaten...

> An indictment unsealed Tuesday lists out a series of angry Facebook messages that Streavel allegedly penned about Mr. Trump both before and after the election — some of which expressed a desire for him to be assassinated.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-woman-charged-mak...

> Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday, August 16, and charged in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

I don't have examples of tweets handy, but here are stickers that get you 2 years in UK jail: They reportedly contained slogans such as “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066”, “Mass immigration is white genocide”, “intolerance is a virtue” and “they seek conquest not asylum.”

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867 (does not quote a single sticker that he was jailed for)

https://www.gbnews.com/news/sam-melia-free-speech-activists-...

Ahh, the famous "criminal damage is tweeting" case

"putting stickers on things is criminal damage deserving of prison time" is no better of a position

But we should probably pay attention to what was written on the stickers.

America literally jails people for quoting the US president

The UK jails people for extreme incitement

Extreme incitement to changing government immigration policy.

Der Sturmer had no impact either?

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