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Influencer facing 10 years in jail for posting memes

@musicisgood, I have split your last post and moved it here, as the topic wasn't related to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki thread.

Anyhow, I want to state that this has nothing to do with the Biden administration. The issue looks a little different when you read the DoJ report:

Defendant Unlawfully Used Social Media to Deprive Individuals of Their Right to Vote

 
@musicisgood, I have split your last post and moved it here, as the topic wasn't related to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki thread.

Anyhow, I want to state that this has nothing to do with the Biden administration. The issue looks a little different when you read the DoJ report:



True, it did get world attention though. Hopefully here in Japan we will be able to express ourselves on the net without fear.

And after reading it, yes, he most likely broke the election laws.
 
Facebook jail is not too bad. Been there several times for posting memes , LOL. What frosts my butt is , I repost memes I found on Facebook and I get jailed , LOL. They sometimes use an AI program that needs a lot of tune up at times. For example , I posted a "color" picture of a Revolutionary war "reenactment" that showed actors "playing" dead. They blocked it for "violent" content showing dead bodies?? I got 3 days in jail for a Facebook picture I shared of a large group of Arabs holding signs "death to Americans/infidels"?? I guess if you figure that I post about 10 to 20 memes a day on Facebook , a few days in jail isn't too bad. Oh , and I forgot to mention , I have about 1 or 2 thousand pictures in my private Facebook picture collection that they went through and blocked several they didn't like. I often wonder if they have me marked as a "discouraged" member that needs "special" attention , LOL.
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I think I am blacklisted on YT for telling the truth about Biden sniffing young girls hair. I can still post, but my browser moves without me moving it. I don't know why. I'm going to have NTT run spy/virus check on my computer. Strange I tell ya.
 
Anyhow, I want to state that this has nothing to do with the Biden administration.
Well it does in the sense that clearly somebody in the Justice Dept sat on this case until Biden came in. They probably assumed the case would get quashed internally if they tried to bring it during Trump's reign of terror. It's additional evidence of cheating by Trump's supporters that they would not have wanted public.
 
Seeing an influencer punished so harshly for sharing memes is depressing. Although information on the internet should be responsible, ten years in prison sounds long. This raises questions about how, in the digital era, freedom of speech and legal ramifications should coexist.top follow
 
Which it seems like America is now being attacked within. Freedom of speech now is punishable up to 10 years in prison now with the Biden administration.
I'll see if I can post the link.
Give me some time, seems like it has disappeared from the net.

Here is the link: The influencer facing 10 years in jail for posting "memes" | tellerreport.com
The Biden administration represents the executive power, not the judicial one. Democratic countries have a separation of powers between executive, legislative and judicial. So in theory the president and his administration have no influence over court decisions.
 
So, a couple months ago this far right wingnut was finally sentenced to seven months. This is far too short/lenient a sentence, in my opinion.
The a**hole was also posting using a made up name, an alias.

NEW YORK (AP) — A right-wing social media influencer was sentenced to seven months in federal prison on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods via Twitter, now known as X, in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election.

Douglass Mackey, who posted under the alias Ricky Vaughn, was convicted in March of the charge of conspiracy against rights after a trial in federal court in Brooklyn.

Prosecutors said Mackey, who had 58,000 Twitter followers, conspired with others between September and November of 2016 to post falsely that supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton could vote for her by text message or social media post.

For example, they said, Mackey tweeted a photo of a woman standing in front of an "African Americans for Hillary" sign. "Avoid the Line. Vote from Home," the tweet said. "Text 'Hillary' to 59925."

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement that Mackey "weaponized disinformation in a dangerous scheme to stop targeted groups, including black and brown people and women, from participating in our democracy."

Mackey's attorney, Andrew Frisch, asked in a memorandum to the judge that his client be spared prison. Frisch said that Mackey started psychotherapy in 2018 in an effort to change his life and "is not Ricky Vaughn of seven years ago."

Judge Ann M. Donnelly denied the request. The New York Times reports that before issuing his sentence, Donnelly said Mackey had been "one of the leading members" of a conspiracy that was "nothing short of an assault on our democracy."
 
Seeing an influencer punished so harshly for sharing memes is depressing. Although information on the internet should be responsible, ten years in prison sounds long. This raises questions about how, in the digital era, freedom of speech and legal ramifications should coexist.top follow
He didn't get 10 years. Only 7 months. Although the headlines always mention the max possible sentence it's rare for people to actually get the harshest sentences.
 
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