Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/12/thin-skinned-dictator.html

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For your honesty Sir, you’ve won an all expenses paid trip to prison, just in time for Christmas too.

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Sounds like a government being a government. This will never stop as long as people see it as an abuse of power by an individual politician, rather than a reflection on the legitimacy of the entire power structure that perpetrated that abuse on his behalf.

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Well, one senator anyway.

I’m guessing at least half of them are looking at ways to get Nigeria’s version of cyber-stalking laws implemented in the USA

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“causing insult, enmity, hatred and ill-will on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

It ends up being more like lese majeste than an anti-cyberstalking law.

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That is precisely what it would be in Thailand.

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You can’t take the major general out of the president …

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