Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
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#2And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary.
... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
#3And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary. ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
Source?
What are the fines for using a banned service in the US?
Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
#4And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary. ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
--per day. Fined a year's salary per day of use of X/Twitter.
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Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
#6Look up what for people in Belarus are being locked up daily since 2020. Emojis, likes, simply caught with preview of the news cached on their phone... We call border crossing, either on land or thought airport, a "Belarusian roulette", because your never know... And it is not prominent people, just regular folks. And it is not in completely different culture - it is a very close to western traditions country, right across Poland's border...
Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
#7And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary. ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
Source? What are the fines for using a banned service in the US?
The only ways for a service to be banned in the US are by court order (i.e. judge says the site has to come down) which carries no penalties for visitors, and sanctions in which case visiting is generally still OK but paying the site is a no-no.
In general, users never face fines in the US even for visiting "banned" pages.
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Maybe they'll do a report on the Free Liberty USA passing a law to put Tiktok censoring in their hands.
Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader
#10And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary. ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
Source? What are the fines for using a banned service in the US?
Reuters, for example[1]: “[Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de] Moraes ordered that those who continued to access X via VPNs be fined up to 50,000 reais ($9,000) per day.” I don’t get how a thing like that could effecrively be ordered into law at a judge’s discretion, but evidently it was.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/lula-says-musk-must-respe...