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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

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235 points nickcotter | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.632s | source
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mesk ◴[29 Mar 25 10:11 UTC] No.43514243[source]▶
USA, the land of unlimited possibilities...of how to get detained without a process...for expressing opinions...by the government repating that we have finally free speach and the dark ages are gone...while revisiting history to avoid dangerous words such as a 'women'...

And I've thought our wana-be-authorian politicians are greates idiots of all, but there seems to be running some kind of global world competion to find them and let them ruin their countries.

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johnisgood ◴[29 Mar 25 11:27 UTC] No.43514614[source]▶
Most of what you said applies to the UK as well, for what it's worth.
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sofixa ◴[29 Mar 25 11:34 UTC] No.43514647[source]▶
Does it now, dear whatabouter?

People are getting arrested and deported with no due process for expressing opinions? The UK government is rewriting history to remove women and gays?

No, you're just confusing the existence of hate crimes in UK law, and maybe the dumb migrant detention in Rwanda scheme (which has since been cancelled), both of which have due process, are public, and ridiculous to compare.

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1. johnisgood ◴[29 Mar 25 11:41 UTC] No.43514692[source]▶
You missed the first word of my comment.

Additionally, yeah there have been "social media offenses" in the recent years. Individuals have been arrested for comments made on social media platforms. Try it out. Communications Act 2003 come to mind.

Are people not entitled to lawyers in the US?

In any case, there is authority overreach in both countries (and more).