Brickbat: The Freedom To Shut Up If You Know What's Good for You

Igor Striz, the Czech Republic's top prosecutor, has warned that those who voice support for the Russian Federation's attack on Ukraine could face up to three years in prison. Striz cited a section of Czech law that make it illegal to state approval for a crime or to praise a criminal and another that calls for prison sentences for anyone who "publicly denies, questions, approves or seeks to justify Nazi, communist, or other genocide."

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[Cyto]

Remind me again.... Which side is the good guys who support freedom and democracy and which side are the bad guys who are for oppression and censorship?

[Salted Nuts]

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[Agammamon]

The animals looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and could not tell the difference.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...calls for prison sentences for anyone who "publicly denies, questions, approves or seeks to justify Nazi, communist, or other genocide."

You know who else locked up people for existing contrary to the state's approval?

[cgr2727]

Joe Arpaio?

[cgr2727]

FDR?

[Roberta]

The governors of NY, NJ, MI, and other states with those nursing home residents with Covid?

[Salted Nuts]

Justin Trudeau?

[cgr2727]

Every cop who got butthurt when someone didn’t respect his authoritah?

[Dillinger]

Judge Eric Moye locked up a Dallas lady for cutting hair.

[Utkonos]

Woodrow Wilson?

[Rich]

illegal to state approval for a crime or to praise a criminal

But one accumulates social-justice points by *condemning* a crime or criminal, right? RIGHT?!

[Gozer the Gozarian]

Speech laws are fucking awesome! We need more of them!
smh...

[Utkonos]

It may seem like something out of Kafka. Alas, it’s a fact, Czech!

[Art Stone]

Just wait until it hits common knowledge that the EU just decided it needs to cut off funding to Poland and Hungary because they won't accept EU laws superceding national laws.

[Carlos Inconvenience]

We are so much more enlightened here in the US, where we just outsource our government censorship to private companies who don't imprison us, but just destroy our incomes and ruin our lives.