Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke

Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by jellicle on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:20PM (#12321153)

Urgh. What Hacker News doesn't need is more right-wing misogyny cluttering it up. Has nothing to do with technology whatsoever. Flagged.

If you are curious about this decision, the CBC has an excellent explanation of it. Read this, and then decide if what happened is a travesty or not.

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

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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by phonon on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:27PM (#12321225)

Yeah, it's a travesty. I can't make a joke about you "if it offends your dignity"?

That's even more overreaching than when Thailand sends you to prison for "insulting the king". There at least it only prevents you about joking about one person! (OK, and his family...and pets...) http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/08/08/dont-dare-speak...

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Re:Canadian Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke by drewcrawford on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:38PM (#12321323)

I did read it. I do think it is a travesty.

It seems unfortunate to me that we can't have a civil debate about important issues without importing baggage like "right-wing misogyny". Perhaps that is a good reason to flag the story, but if so it seems like more of a bug than a feature.

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