This helps show why people should pause before arguing that the U.S. should restrict free speech protections "since other countries do it."https://twitter.com/KMPensiero/status/917835235961733121 …
Using Turkey as an example rather than e.g. some western European countries makes this argument unconvincing.
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OK, how about Germany where a comedian was threatened with criminal prosecution for writing a lewd poem about the Turkish president?
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Threatened with prosecution isn't the same as being prosecuted. Plenty of bad prosecutions have been threatened/pursued in the US too.
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