• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Can you provide proof that people in today’s US have been given jail time for posting online government criticism?

    • midorale@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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      1 year ago

      I tried to look through a lot of cases. It seemed like most every case was leaking information, threats of actual violence, stolen valor, or other generally agreed upon crimes. There’s truth to the notion that a government is more likely to look for crimes if you’re a specific person, but I don’t know of anyone in the modern US who goes to jail for lying about things the army has done. I use the word “lying” because Russia courts make the claim that that’s what happened here.

      Also, there are more recent cases of Russia imprisoning someone for essentially this same crime.