Canada might be closer to where I’m sitting and more likely to suggest you commit suicide, but it’s hard to beat the UK for garden variety tyranny. They’ve been known to arrest you for all manner of public expression unless, by the expression, you mean committing an actual crime. Not that they won’t arrest you for rioting if you happen to be pale of skin- that seems likely, but if you’d like to save yourself a trip out and the risk of bodily harm, you can now get arrested for retweeting.
Deemed hateful. Does that include the news and remarks by MPs? How about the clip I just shared? The idea that exchanging information about where there are riots – say you’d like not to be the victim of one – could get you a visit from the police, who have nothing better to do than watch your Twitter feed. I’m sure it’s not that bad, not yet, but it will get there. Any government willing to do it is capable of pre-censoring any speech at all with threats and then acting on them, which leads to it finding crimes in your words because it wants or needs to.
