Mike Ward, a Quebec comedian, was ordered to pay a fine of $42,000 for jokes about Jeremy Gabriel, a disabled singer, after a human rights tribunal ruling. Ward appealed and eventually won his case in the Supreme Court, which ruled that his jokes did not breach Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Despite the financial penalties, Ward was not imprisoned.
If it’s only a joke possibly none. If it is slander quite a few, but listing the nuances of the decades of weighting freedom of speach (and press) against the freedom of privacy and human dignity is way too much for a comment
Mike Ward, a Quebec comedian, was ordered to pay a fine of $42,000 for jokes about Jeremy Gabriel, a disabled singer, after a human rights tribunal ruling. Ward appealed and eventually won his case in the Supreme Court, which ruled that his jokes did not breach Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Despite the financial penalties, Ward was not imprisoned.
Ok, not jail.
Well one’s freedom ends when it infringes on another’s
What freedoms are infringed by joke telling?
If it’s only a joke possibly none. If it is slander quite a few, but listing the nuances of the decades of weighting freedom of speach (and press) against the freedom of privacy and human dignity is way too much for a comment