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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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snehk ◴[11 Apr 25 08:42 UTC] No.43651672[source]▶
> Yet to many Europeans the idea that free expression is under threat seems odd. Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice.

A journalist in Germany was just sentenced to seven months for posting a meme of a politician where she holds up a sign saying "I hate free speech".

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nancy-faeser-afd-...

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lm28469 ◴[11 Apr 25 08:51 UTC] No.43651760[source]▶
> sentenced to seven months

Which he will do exactly 0 months because it's a suspended sentence. Still crazy but nowhere close to "7 months of prison for a meme"

PS: Didn't the US just deport people to a foreign prison because they had tattoos ?

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closewith ◴[11 Apr 25 08:54 UTC] No.43651788[source]▶
That’s actually pretty close to “7 months of prison for a meme”.
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1. lm28469 ◴[11 Apr 25 09:13 UTC] No.43651921[source]▶
But it's not, words have meaning. Why did Trump say France should "FREE Marine Lepen" ? She isn't in prison, he probably read "sentenced to XX years" and assumed she was.