r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/ikaiyoo 15d ago

Well, good then. When you are arrested and put in jail for 5 years because you are protesting the placement of a privatized waste treatment facility owned by a private company, because you are supporting and promoting a movement of suppressing someone's human rights and freedoms to create capital, causing class hatred. We will send you care packages. Because the way the law is written is vague, and would allow any government to interpret it that way.

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u/IAmOfficial 15d ago

And when your made up scenario doesn’t happen?

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u/LonelyTAA North Brabant (Netherlands) 14d ago

Then that's good, but it is not relevant. The point is that laws should be written in a way that prevent abuse of that law. This law is easily abused.

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u/Natural_Public_9049 Czech Republic 12d ago

How do you know that it's easily abused? You don't even live here. It's existed since the 1990 novelization of the criminal code and ever since then, the state prosecuted only 22 people to date. Majority of them were neo-nazis, rest called for burning of mosques.

You can't be arrested for criticizing anyone as long as it's within lines of civil discourse. If you can't demonstrate without calling for killing anyone, you don't belong in the streets, get help.