A lot of us in the U.S. see stories about the censorship and prosecution of free speech and smugly think to ourselves that we're glad we don't live under such regulations. Wrong.
During the Bush years, there were agents that actively sought out internet sites for prosecution; most of them BDSM sites that were adult-centric.
We see stories about things like what happened to a man in Australia and chuckle:
Australian Man Arrested for Simpsons Images
What we don't know about are things like the outright violation of Mike Diana's free speech:
Mike Diana Wiki
It can't happen here? It
does happen here.