[ExI] im one of the 10k

[Will Steinberg]

Even in the UK you can get jailed for words.  A bunch of people recently
were arrested for public disturbance just for quietly holding up signs that
said "not my king" and the like.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 12:54 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Yesterday I was one of Randall Munroe’s 10k who didn’t know something
> everyone else knew (and I still don’t know that) but today I find out
> something perhaps everyone else already knew: in Norway a person can get
> jail time for words?  It never occurred to me that Norway didn’t have
> freedom of speech laws similar to the USA.  I hear Norwegian Tonje Gjevjon
> is in trouble.
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> Was anyone else here aware of that?  Do I get to score in the 10k zone
> twice in the same week?
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> This brings up new questions regarding Twitter.  What if… someone tweets
> something illegal in Norway.  Is Elon Musk a co-defendant now?  What if she
> tweets it while on vacation in the states, where it is legal?  And
> regarding that whole refugee business, could not any Norwegian just take
> trip to the states, tweet something illegal in Norway, then legitimately
> claim refugee status?  What about the other outfits in Europe, such as…
> like… “France” and “Australia.”  Do they have free speech?  And why can’t
> every nation just adopt the US Bill of Rights and be done with it?
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> All of this stands as evidence that technology is fast but law is slow.
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> spike
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