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 …
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Replying to @AndyGrewal @annalecta
Not arguing for 1A restrictions. But there's countries that have less expansive 1A laws, and still aren't crazily incarcerating for speech.
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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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Don't think the German law in this area is perfect (can dig up prev refs if you want), but this 1A absolutism isn't healthy.
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It's not absolute in the US either. There's various compromises different countries make for good and bad reasons.
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Erdogan's prosecutions are primarily possible due to the lack of an independent judiciary.
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(FWIW, I think it's very doubtful a criminal prosecution of Böhmermann would've been affirmed before higher courts)
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