Pfft! You tankies always omit important data, like population! We should be comparing these numbers relative to the total population of each country! It’s easy to say the UK is worse like this, but if we actually look at the numbers:
The UK’s population is around 68 million, so this is only ~ 0.0049% of their population.
That’s practically nothing! A tiny blip! But as we all know, only like 200 people live in Russia, which means that Russia has arrested over 200% of their population! How evil of them!
(If you want the actual numbers for Russia it is ~0.000285% of their population of around 144 million.)
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Agora, a Russian human rights group, says law enforcement has opened 411 criminal cases against internet users in Russia in 2017, compared with 298 cases in 2016
More than 3,300 people were detained and questioned last year [2016] over so-called trolling on social media and other online forums, a rise of nearly 50 per cent in two years, according to figures obtained by The Times.
so that number is actually biased against Russia.
50% rise in 2 years means that even before 2016, UK was “detaining and questioning” 1750 people for their social media posts. But they don’t dare present that number honestly.
Ok but have you considered that Russia is evil? Or what? Are you sove kind of authoritarian tankie my good sir? /s
