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I remember when Russia passed those first "anti-extremist" laws making it illegal to target "identifiable social groups" with "hate speech".

Then we found out that police is an "identifiable social group", and so are the MPs...

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Well, I remember that case[0], the guy had written that there are no good cops and was calling for burning policemen alive on the city square in a crematorium "like in Auschwitz" and got one year of suspended sentence for that. I can't say that I disagree with the court, but that's the problem.

[0] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дело_Терентьева

To add how the spiral works, those "anti-extremist" laws included the first amendment to the Internet blocking one.

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