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Great post. I am in South Korea. I could be imprisoned for the the things I have written here about Samsung and their owning family.



In Thailand you could be imprisoned if anything you say can be misconstrued as a criticism of the King.

This kinds of laws that make all kinds of utterly harmless speech a very serious risk are very widespread.

See also what happened to some poor guy that made a joke in Twitter about his trip to the US.

People in favor of "Real Names" are the same kind of people who say "If you have nothing to hide, why do you care about privacy?"


In Thailand you could be imprisoned if anything you say can be misconstrued as a criticism of the King.

I've heard that is also true in Memphis.


…but you haven't.




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