alt Hacker NewsIt's not in the comment I'm responding to,
>> Someone above asked me how it was nonsense. I responded that people parotting the point about getting arrested for criticising the king is nonsense
Protesting against the king is criticising the king IMO. I didn't see his quantifier, since I would agree that online critique of the king in particular is not yet penalised.
Not surprising you're implying bad faith though, if we're splitting the hair this thin.
(and this specific planning of the protest was so heavy handed, because it belong to one of the two naughty protests, environmental. The second naughty one is protesting against the genocide. The rest is okay)
> It's not in the comment I'm responding to,
It's in the original comment you responded to, and it's a critical part of the conversation chain.
"And yes, UK has some awful laws around this. Yes it has put people in jail just for planning a protest before. Yes you can go to jail for not disclosing your passwords. But what you read on the internet is almost laughably out of proportion - no, you won't get arrested for posting a meme about the king."
I'm not saying bad faith, I'm saying you misread their argument pretty badly.
Your citations support the problems they already admitted. The hair was split before you got here because they're distinguishing in-person and online actions.