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* Six Virginian workers were fired by their boss for liking the [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/man-fired-using-button-facebook-204016325.html;_ylt=AhshJoM7.uCnJv5MqVN4h9Ws0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtcmlra3Y0BG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDZTlhOWI5ZmEtZWFiYS0zZDM3LWIzZTQtN2Y2YThkNmQxYjQzBHBvcwMxNgRzZWMDdG9wX3N0b3J5BHZlcgMwNzQ5NTIxMC05OTRlLTExZTEtOTc2Zi05Y2NiOTlmNzE0NmU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFlamZvM2ZlBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc2VjdGlvbnM-;_ylv=3 Facebook page of Jim Adams].
* Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man, was beaten, tazed, and battered to the point of death by two Fullerton police officers when he refused to give his name and continued to resist arrest. Particularly tragic as he was apologizing profusely while being beaten and even deliriously calling out to his father that they were killing him amid deaf ears. Also an excellent example of [[Police Brutality]].
* And then there's the grand daddy of all DRs, at least in modern times. In 1989, a group of college students and other civilians began protesting their local government to implement economic and democratic reforms. The protests were largely peaceful, but the government, in their [[Sarcasm Mode|"great wisdom"]], responded by deploying the army against the protesters, resulting in hundreds if not thousands dead along with many more arrested and dropped into political prisons. Even worse, the government apparently knew this was a DR on their part, and so attempted to bar all foreign press from the country (they failed) and have since implemented a [[Elephant in
* A teen-aged girl in Texas (who is an honor student) spent a night in jail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150123/Exhausted-honour-student-shown-mercy-jailed-truancy--Works-jobs-support-family.html for missing school for many days.] The worst thing? She is ''working to help her family'' since her parents split up and is constantly exhausted from work, which is the reason she misses school so many times.
* Any time when an Imperial power has violently put down a peaceful rebellion in a colony.
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* A Japanese man was [https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/japanese_man_arrested_for_selling_hacked_pokemon_sword_and_shield_monsters arrested] for [https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/4/22266484/japanese-police-arrest-sword-shield-hacker-pokemon-sobble-sword-and-shield-nintendo selling] hacked ''[[Pokémon]] Sword And Shield'' monsters. Sure, the man profited from unauthorised modification of a ''video game'', but Western commentators have decried the arrest as being draconian and overkill considering how it's more of a misdemeanour than an actual threat to society: if it was something as heinous as drug trafficking or possession of child pornography, an arrest would be justified, but an arrest for something as simple as modding a video game is too much.
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