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Posted on 06/04/2025 7:04:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A court has sentenced comedian Leo Lins to more than eight years in prison for inciting intolerance through a stand-up performance viewed by over three million people on YouTube.
On Tuesday 3 June, Brazilian comedian Leo Lins was sentenced to over eight years in prison for making discriminatory remarks in a stand-up routine that targeted a wide range of minority groups — including black people, obese individuals, elderly people, those living with HIV, homosexuals, evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews, and people with disabilities.
The federal court in São Paulo ruled that the right to freedom of expression is not absolute, and when it comes into conflict with human dignity, the latter must prevail. Lins’s defence team has announced plans to appeal the verdict.
The court found that performances such as Lins’s contribute to “the spread of verbal violence in society and promote intolerance.” The jokes in question were part of a 2022 show titled Perturbador (“Disturbing”), which was also uploaded to YouTube. The public prosecutor’s office filed a complaint about the content, and in 2023, a different court ordered the video to be removed from the internet. By that time, it had already amassed over three million views.
Collective moral damages
In addition to the prison sentence, Lins has been ordered to pay a fine of 300,000 reais (approximately €54,000) for collective moral damages. His lawyer criticised the ruling, saying: “Watching a comedian receive the same punishment as someone convicted of drug trafficking, corruption, or even murder, all because of jokes told on stage, is deeply troubling.”
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WTF is “the spread of verbal violence?”
Dang. Commies gonna commie. Sorry to the comedian.
The US must crack down hard on such censorship with Russian level sanctions.
If it were up to me I’d give this guy asylum. Not that I condone jokes like that but freedom of speech SHOULD be absolute when it doesn’t incite violence. Even in a 3rd world shithole like Brazil.
Good God, they’re only jokes.
Every group has its good and bad people.
Euroweekly news or Euroweeny news?
It sounds like he did the old Dice-Clay routine.
You have to read half the article before you find out where it is, and not by chance. You could have known where it was in the first sentece with the inclusion of “Brazilian” in front of “court” but that would be too easy. It’s intentional to keep you reading and seeing ads
Par for the course....
I guess Rio isn’t a place where Americans should want to spend their tourist dollars anymore.
> The court found that performances such as Lins’s contribute to “the spread of verbal violence in society and promote intolerance.” <
The UK’s Starmer and Germany’s Merz will probably learn something from this. And not in a good way.
“Every group has its good and bad people.”
Given enough time, under Communism or socialism, there is only one good person left.
Well, at least he didn’t leave out any minority groups.
If only Stalin had come up with that phase he shaking his head in Hell...
He didn’t even trash the commies who stole the election.
Definitely should sanction that government.
Brazil is one giant ghetto.
Totally subjective ruling.
Freedom of expression does mean people can be told things they don’t like hearing. That is the core of freedom of speech. In certin cases such as slander, libel, and endangering people by ex. causing a false panic, the law has specific ways of dealing with these abuses.
Hurting peoples wittle feewings is not an abuse of free speech. Whether telling it in a humorous way, or straightforward.
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