• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Wait, does (a) mean they can simply arrest you for swearing!? Who decides if what you did was ‘disorderly’? This sounds dangerously vague

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      There was a clarification done more recently that helps explain. The Wikipedia page explains it.

      Basically: just casually swearing? No. Cursing out a person in their face, causing severe anguish and/or a public disturbance? To the point where it might be described by bystanders as verbal assault? Yeah, that’s illegal.