Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail

blindbat writes While back home in the U.S., a man working in the United Arab Emirates posted negative comments about the company he worked for. Upon returning to the country to resign, he was arrested and now faces up to a year in prison under their strict "cyber slander" laws designed to protect reputation.

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Freedom of speech is absolute, is not it?

[mi]

Well, as we are often reminded by various Illiberals here at home:

• Freedom of Speech is a privilege ;
• Hate Speech should be banned;
• “This isn’t really the ’60s anymore [...] people can’t really protest like that"
• "Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Given the "pragmatic" approach to rights even in the country, which explicitly puts them in writing, should we be surprised, other places are even more restrictive?