This comedian Mike Ward has made this kid the centerpiece of his repertoire for years now, and the ruling has to do with harassment more along the lines of the "Star Wars Kid" variety, where the consistent abuse heaped on him was making him hard to live his life.

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/4wod9b/david_mitc...

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> In context of Jeremy signing for the pope and along Celine Dion. Lets just say it; A kid sang a song, was not much of a performance and was looking kinda funny at the time no one knew about him. It was something that Ward refered to in once, twice...Again and again. Mike ward's bashings can be ruthless and he somehow though that this gag was shocking enough that he made it it his signature basically.

>> Have any people commenting on this ever listened to the entire bit? The only bit that people talk about and seems to get translated is the first part where he makes fun of his appearance. Nobody seems to talk about the second half of the bit where he launches into "Fuck, he's still not dead! The little fucker just won't die! [...] I defended you, you need to die now! Fucking heartless asshole, die already[...]"

https://youtu.be/zYrsECWQuM8?t=1m40s

I am in no way for this kind of ruling. Nobody has a right to not be offended. But, is someone repeatedly calling for the death of a child acceptable satire/humour?

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Also worth reading:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-hu...

It's yet another fairly complex ruling being coopted into the "omg the PC police are after us" boogeyman.