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Russian prosecutors requested a 3½ year prison sentence Friday for a blogger charged with inciting religious hatred for playing "Pokemon Go" in a church.
Prosecutors made the request as the trial of Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, wrapped up in the city of Yekaterinburg. A judge said a verdict in the case would be issued May 11.
Sokolovsky posted a video on his blog showing him playing the smartphone game in a church built on the supposed spot where the last Russian tsar and his family were killed. He has been in detention since October.
He is charged with inciting religious hatred. It is the same offense that sent two women from the Pussy Riot punk collective to prison for two years in 2012.
Source: ABC News
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(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:53AM (3 children)
I consider waking me up on Saturday morning, spreading the word of god a problem. If an astronomer did that I'd consider them a problem as well, but that has never happened.
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:26AM (2 children)
Thing is, if I really believed I could save someone's soul by converting them to my religion, I like to think I'd spend a lot of my time doing it. It's well within the bounds of freedom of expression.
Same goes for being a bit too evangelical about their atheism, if they really think it's improving the world to spread atheism. (This tends to be comparably annoying, of course.)
I certainly object to dangerous ideologies, but I don't see a real problem in people trying to spread their ideas in ways that might be a bit annoyingly. Free society can cope with the 'a bit annoying' stuff.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:37PM (1 child)
That's a slippery slope to the Inquisition there. What's a bit of harm to the mortal flesh in long run if you save the 'immortal' soul. I realize that's an extreme example but I hope you get my drift. I agree with you about atheism though, there is little difference between someone aggressively pushing their view of atheism or their personal religious stance. Yes as much as it is annoying everyone has the right, or should, to express their opinion, be it reasonable, or less than so. Boy Scouts to the LDS, the KKK, to the Black Panthers. Just not on my front porch on Saturday at 09:00 :)
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:41PM
But it's not a slippery slope. Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose, and all that. Crazy superstitions are allowed, but aren't an excuse to break the law. Simple as that.
The front-porch-at-9:00-on-a-Sunday issue might be within the scope of laws regarding 'disturbing the peace' and such, at least if you have a clear sign on your property. Personally I get it easy: there are some such evangelists here in the UK (the Jehova's Witnesses spring to mind), but not many.