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Indian comedian jailed for joke he didn't even tell

bbc.co.uk

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PILATE: I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldiewy. Anybody else feel like a little... giggle... when I mention my fwiend... Biggus...

GUARD #1: chuckling

PILATE: ...Dickus?

GUARD #1: chuckling

PILATE: What about you? Do you find it... wisible... when I say the name... 'Biggus'...

GUARD #3: chuckle

PILATE: ...'Dickus'?

GUARD #1 and GUARD #2: chuckling

PILATE: He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called... 'Incontinentia'. 'Incontinentia Buttocks'.

GUARDS: laughing

PILATE: Stop! What is all this?

GUARDS: Ha, ha ha ha ha ha...

PILATE: I've had enough of this wowdy webel sniggewing behavior. Silence! Call yourselves Pwaetowian guards? You're not-- Seize him! Seize him! Blow your noses and seize him!

So what was the joke? At the bare minimum a description of the joke seems like a crucial part to this story.

Why does the content matter? I should be able to shout anything and not be thrown to jail.

(Btw they criticized a Supreme Court decision)

The story's headline is "Indian comedian jailed for joke he didn't even tell"...so it matters to the people reading the story, otherwise it is not a very good story.

if it is not important, then why include it in the headline?

People here in India in panic on some related things. I think this is more of human right issue than a political.

As a request, can we stop posting deeply political content to HN? Especially anything about India turns into a flamewar here.

My wish for 2022 would be that more people would care about protecting civil liberties and free speech, and that fewer people would see issues such as those as "deeply political".

Posting that to HN doesn't make it any better. Just brings the propaganda machine here too.

If you don't believe it, look at the amount of propaganda in any India related threads, from both sides of politics.

Is wanting people all over the world to have basic freedoms "deeply political"? Personally, I think it is a lot more important than the latest tech trivia.

It is time that fighting for civil liberties like free speech and others becomes a left wing topic again. No more protecting false sentimentality, no minority profits from exception to free speech, this is about enforcing opinions on others.

It is happening all over the world. In the UK the government have recently criminalised many forms of peaceful protest.

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