“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

- George Washington

COMMENT | Rational people have to understand that there is a reason why Madani is playing cat and mouse with the detention of the TikTok user known as “Jorjet Myla” using the Sedition Act.

Nobody with certainty knows what she said that hurt the feelings of the ruling regime, and while social media is filled with first, second, and third-hand knowledge of what she said and screenshots are being passed around and how she said it, there is no official verification of her speech, which warranted a three-day remand and sanction from the state.

And this is what the state wants. People have to understand that laws like the Sedition Act are capricious by design.

American journalist and author Christopher Hitchens said it best - “The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.”

The state wants to...