In India, there's a law (paraphrasing)
IT, Section 66a. This is the core of it below.
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Let's also recognise Section 66A's misuse flows from its draconian nature and imprecise terminology. People can face up to three years' jail for electronic communications that "grossly" offend or cause "annoyance or inconvenience", or, in case of information known to be false, cause "danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will". Clubbed together, this amounts to gagging citizens in a day and age the internet's an indispensable everyday platform for exchange of news and views.
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Three years in jail for electronic communication that annoys someone?
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W O W.
Clearly we're not the only folks who have tried to codify political correctness. Recently there was a case in India where two girls were arrested for a Facebook posting. It wasn't like hate speech or revealing state secrets...
here's the story. They were accused of sedition because one girl said after
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Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan in Palghar for commenting on the Mumbai shutdown after the death of Bal Thackeray.
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