Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

Post by kypro » Thu, May 21, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC

mghackerlady wrote: post #300

kypro wrote: post #281

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> The second one was for specifically racist messages - i.e. breaching hate speech laws - not just being mean. Can you provide a definition of "hate speech" which doesn't also apply to "mean words"? Are you suggesting racist words are a special category of mean words or something? If so why?

Hate speech is a subcategory of mean words that needs to be legally prevented for a just society where people are equal. Racist words are only hate speech if they are uttered and used in a discriminatory manner. Since whatever group is targeted by hate speech is the only group that can be harmed by the hate speech, they should be handled differently in the eyes of the law to ensure no one group is excessively discrim…

Post by pseudalopex » Thu, May 21, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC

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OP says that they left out information (which cops do all the time) but that the warrant shouldn't have been granted either way because of SCOTUS precedent. Would welcome reform that makes it harder to lie on warrant affidavits, although again, that should be civil in nature.

> they left out information Yes, we call that lying by omission. They knew that information would result in the warrant not being granted, so they left it out.

Post by account42 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC

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Most people would spend 40 days in jail for $800k. Why wouldn't police collude together to arrest one another? This feels like a free money glitch. I agree without accountability this provides a huge incentive to enrich your friends quite easily off the taxpayer.

You're making a big mistake by completely failing to account for the inherent (not to mention quite large) uncertainties in this kind of situation. A priori, it's not "40 days in jail == $800k payday", it's "some unknown number of days in jail and risk of a conviction in exchange for a chance at a payday of unknown value".

Post by account42 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

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In the UK 30 people are arrested a day for social media posts online. Only about 10 percent resulting in convictions. Police don't face criminal charges for this. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

Those 30 aren’t arrested for just for writing “social media posts” but for possibly “harmful communication including incitement to terrorism and violence, online threats and abuse, and unwanted communication via email and other means” Of the 90% many will accept their fault and receive a caution or warning Edit: and none of those cases would involve pretrial remand/jail

Post by breezybottom » Thu, May 21, 2026, 11:11 AM UTC

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How do you "turn in" a sheriff? It's an elected position

You report them to state police or the FBI?