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Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

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Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

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Post by ronsor »

SR2Z wrote: post #7
OKRainbowKid wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The US doesn't even block websites. Either the site is taken down (for everyone), or it's up.

Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

thimabi wrote: post #12

What is the message that the dot tried to convey?

The dot got more "likes" than Khamenei's Tweet. He was able to "ratio" the supreme leader's message without saying anything at all, and apparently the government decided that's worth 12 years in prison.

Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

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Post by arp242 »

hippich wrote: post #6

Look 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…

I work on an organisation that does anti-corruption reporting. We have some software for that and the search box has "Vladimir Putin, TeliaSonera" as a placeholder example.

Few months back a new hire quit on his second day when he saw that, because he was afraid he might get into trouble since he has to regularly travel to Russia (he was from, eh, somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Balkans or some such – I forgot).

We had some discussions about whether that was completely paranoid and stupid, or whether it was somewhat reasonable/understandable.

I was firmly in the last camp. Yes, maybe the chance of actually suffering consequences is small and in that sense it's paranoid, but people buy lottery tickets with a lower chance of winning. The arbitrariness of it is the point.

Re: Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

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Post by 0xedd »

ronsor wrote: post #11
SR2Z wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The US doesn't even block websites. Either the site is taken down (for everyone), or it's up.

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