It's frightening how quickly institutions fall.
That country went from crying about Free Speech on every slope that could be even slightly slippery, to having the government directly and personally retaliate over a rumor that someone may state a fact that makes the king look bad.
Whether that's legal or not also ceased to matter, because legality of things is now decided by the king's drinking buddies.
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