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The lawlessness of humour
February 23, 2015
The courts will work their processes in the 'AIB Roast' case, but it is very rarely illegal to tell a joke, or a whole series of them, to listen to one, disseminate or laugh at one. The law does not criminalise a joke. The law cannot allow itself to be used as an instrument of suppression, of a citizen's right to speak sense or nonsense.
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