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Brickbat: Tough Crowd

Charles Oliver | 4.26.2017 4:00 AM

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A Spanish court has sentenced Cassandra Vera to one year in jail for tweeting jokes about the 1973 assassination of prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The court said her jokes were "disrespectful" and did not form part of a "healthy humoristic environment."

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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