Kuwait Sentences Two Men To Jail For Tweets Criticizing Ruler

New submitter Oxide writes "A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the country's ruler on Twitter, his lawyer said, the second person to be jailed for the offense in as many days. The Gulf state has clamped down in recent months on political activists who have been using social media websites to criticize the government and the ruling family. What's interesting is that the tweets in question did not mention the ruler directly but just indicated it might be him it is referring to."

Another argument for metric

[MrKaos]

As it's obvious this ruler was Imperial.

Damned Tyrants!

[neiljt]

Cripes, reading this makes the US sound like the Land of the Free.

Criticizing ruler?

[TheDarAve]

What did they post? "Your numbers aren't fully in line!" "You don't take exact measurements! " "Being flat and metal with writing all over you is evil!"

I don't blame them

[wonkey_monkey]

I still remember with bitter disappointment the day I discovered that the 30cm on one edge of my ruler didn't exactly line up with the 15" on the other side after all.

All Hail the Principle.

[MRe_nl]

Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah al-Streisand effect.