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Apologies, I appear to have overstated things for sure. That said, satire against the police force lands you in court: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/

Apologies, I appear to have overstated things for sure. That said, satire against the police force lands you in court: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/07/satirical-article-spanish-riot-police-cocaine-lands-editor-el-jueves-court-catalonia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/07/satirical-arti... And tweeting can get you a suspended sentence (which got overturned on appeal, but didn't prevent the original conviction): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/spanish-student-cassandra-vera-conviction-twitter-joke-overturned https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/spanish-studen... I did overstate things, but "total BS" doesn't seem fair either.

narag 8y ago
First of all, I'm opposed to that law. If it was up to me, it would be annihilated from existence. Please understand that joining a few imprecisions, innocuous in isolation, the result is totally incorrect. 'Incorrect' would have been better than 'BS' indeed, sorry. The reason for verbal escalation is we have to see this kind of "imprecision" very often and it's not funny anymore.
narag 8y ago
Oh, one more thing. Satire is a different thing than outright insult. Putting the insult in a cartoon makes no difference. The Guardian makes a good job mentioning the context, maybe because in the UK there're a libel laws. Also in the other article correctly mention that the "rapper" was accused of death threats and asking terrorists to attack people. The guy is at large, thanks to certain terrorists haven country that happens to host EU institutions.