[tasogare]

Time will tell... For the moment an arrestation over a trivial matter like this is a very big deal. Also the red guards are actively brigading here, elsewhere on the net and irl to impose their cultural revolution, in addition of hijacking the legal system, so the comparison with communist China is very apt.

[pwinnski]

So you made a false claim, and supplied with evidence your claim was false, you reply with "Time will tell" rather than admit your claim was false.

This is not helpful to anyone.

[JumpCrisscross]

> over a trivial matter like this

Contempt of court is anything but minor. Violating a court order, in particular a gag order regarding an ongoing case, is a very serious offense. Casting it as a law banning speech in any way similar to what Beijing is doing in Hong Kong is dishonest.

[op03]

This modern red gaurd you worry about is built on top of what social media enables, amplifies and rewards.

Two points worth making about "revolutions" built on top of social media -

1. They dont generate outcomes. We now have 15 years of data on social medias bullshit revolutions that prove it. Best example would be what has happened in Tunisia or what outcomes that Hope and Change guy produced beyond getting himself a job at Netflix.

2. The clueless buffoon class behind social media algos of the last 15 years have finally woken up to their own cluelessness, so the algos are changing. Reward mechanisms are changing. What gets amplified is changing. Who gets thrown off the network is evolving. And even though all these changes are still in the realm of half baked shit, one thing they ensure is the type of "revolutions" and "revolutionaries" propped up over the last 15 year wont resemble what gets propped up in the next 15.

So I wouldnt loose too much sleep. Especially in Canada.