Daily Links: 09/14/17 – Thousands of Turks arrested for downloading encrypted messaging app

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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• Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens were arrested or fired simply because they downloaded an encrypted messaging app.
  (via @trevortimm; RT: @Popehat)

• Why “hate speech” laws are a bad idea: Scottish man arrested and faces jail time over a YouTube video of a pug trained to give Nazi salutes as a prank.
  (via @ENBrown; RT: @Popehat)

• Meanwhile, Australia passes a new law penalizing “threats, intimidation or vilification” ^{[my emphasis]} during its same-sex marriage plebiscite. I’m sure this has absolutely no chance of being abused in any way.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Appeals court: Trump’s travel ban is unconstitutional and must be loosened. SCOTUS: Ignore that.
  (via @fark)

• Finally, Missouri man gets tired of being called racist for flying the Confederate flag, proves critics wrong by … hanging a “slaves 4 sale” sign.
  (via AlterNet | Facebook)

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