Hacker News Reader

Comment by poikniok | Hacker News Reader

Scary to see how this is just a small step away from prohibiting any criticism of the police. I feel sorry for Canadians now, and hope that one day they can recover their freedoms.

View on HN

This person has in fact been prohibited from criticizing the police.

Is tacitly calling for a specific persons murder "criticism"?

Regardless of what you feel about the original upload, the article does in fact claim that she is barred from criticism:

"Pawluck is also prohibited from posting anything about police or anyone associated with the judicial system."

Right, but isn't there precedent here wherein people guilty of a crime were forbidden from communicating with, or posting about their victim on social media? Just that in this case, the victim is the police force, and not some random individual.

No, I literally just meant: this person was forbidden by the government of Canada from criticizing the police. Apparently in any direct fashion, violent or not.

We don't even reach the question of whether the original imagery qualifies as "criticism".

Yes, and my point is that this is very similar to how, for example, convicted harassers aren't allowed to talk about their victims on social media, even if it isn't in a manner associated with their crime?

Different countries have different attitudes to how free people can be in whatever they want to say. Canada is basically in the middle of the pack: http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi#data_table/...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com