As evidence of the emptiness of the free speech rallies last week in Paris, I offer the following story:
France – Don’t Criminalise Children For Speech by John Sargeant.
John details the arrest of a 16 year old who published a parody of a cover by Charlie Hebdo. Take the time to see it and side by side comparison of the original cover and the parody.
Ask yourself, could I make a parody of the parody with certain elected officials of the United States in the parody?
Not a good area for experimentation. My suspicion, without looking in the United States Code, is that you would be arrested and severely punished.
Just so you know that you can’t parody some people in the United States. Feeling real robust about freedom of speech now?
I first saw this in a tweet by Alex Brown.