Brickbat: You Hockey Puck

The Japanese legislature has increased the penalty for insulting someone online. Those found guilty of violating the law face up to one year in prison or a fine of up to 300,000 yen ($2,200). Previously, those found guilty of insulting someone online faced up to 30 days in prison or a fine of up to 10,000 yen ($75). The change comes two years after the suicide of professional wrestler Hana Kimura, who was the subject of abuse online after she got into a conflict with another contestant on a reality show.

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[Don't look at me!]

“ So, whaddaya in for, murder?”

“No, I insulted someone online “.

[SQRLSY One]

Speaking of murder, I was wondering…

If I call a known, documented, convicted murderer, a “murderer”… In Japan, is that “insulting” the murderer? Will I be thrown into the pokey with said murderer, and will my sentience actually be LONGER than the sentence of said murderer? If the jury (or judges; “the court”) convicts the murderer of murder (thereby calling him or her a “murderer”… Will said jury (or judges) be guilty of insulting the murderer? If said jury (or judges) are then convicted of being “insulters”, is that, too, too highly insulting?

Good Government Almighty, domino theory could work here! We could ALL end up thrown into the pokey! Or are we all, already there, anyway?!?!?

[SQRLSY One]

PS, Urban Dictionary has THREE pages for what “hockey puck” can mean!!! I had NO idea!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hockey%20puck

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[Brandybuck]

In England where defamation means to insult someone, regardless whether the claim is true or not. And it has led to some bizarre results. Decades ago a BBC newscaster was visibly drunk on the air. It was not allowed to call him “drunk”, and thus euphemisms like “disoriented and hesitant” were used.

Recently some US skeptics were sued for calling homeopathy fake, making demonstrably true statements about the practice. Because British homeopaths were insulted. Thankfully the skeptics won, but the fact that it made it to court in the first place is chilling.

We Yanks seldom realize how good we have it, which is why so many attempts to curtail out freedom of speech seem to be making headway.

[Cyto]

Yeah, that homeopathy case was worrisome. It went on way too long and the homeopath won way too many battles.

[The Encogitationer]

If that definition of defamation defeated and dominated in the U.S.A., * all the Junkyard Dog Litigators using Texas Abortion Law will also diversify into suing people for denying so-called “Gay Conversion Therapy” as well as for mocking chiropractics, Hallelujah Acres raw diets, exorcisms, and “faith healing.” We could very well be sued into a Theocracy!

* Sorry for practing my alliteration on you. It just fell off the tongue. 🙂

[Cyto]

“And they all moved away from me on the group W bench…”

[Adans smith]

So the Japanese are turning into pussies too huh?

[Brandybuck]

Why you insult pussies?

[Cyto]

A brickbat from reddit…

https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/vhteab/atlanta_va_employee_attack_elderly_vietnam_veteran/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[Cyto]

Why?

To highlight the brigades of young communists out there and the odd places their rhetoric takes them.

……
capitalism has run amock on public services, war, healthcare & general leadership.

Too much individualism and too much money=power.

I am seeing this thought process everywhere these days.

[Cyto]

So… federal Healthcare agency employee assaults an old vet, agency hides evidence until FOIA request finally produces video…. is proof of capitalism and individualism run amuck.

How do you even argue with this? This is the coming wave … this is who is moving into positions of power soon.

[Brandybuck]

People with no idea as to what capitalism means, even in the loosest sense.

People are of course allowed their own stupidity and ignorance, but that they are still allowed to vote distresses me.

[Longtobefree]

They should have addresses the root cause, and outlawed “reality” shows.

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[The Encogitationer]

All diets are for digestion!…You Hockey Puck!

By the bye, here’s where I first heard that hilarious insult:

Don Rickles for Right Guard (1974)
https://youtu.be/lSWAT7bT6mU

1987 – Anso V Carpet – Ready For Anything (with Don Rickles) Commercial
https://youtu.be/hmKgc97n0WQ

[Will Nonya]

The problem.is clearly those meanies online rather than the mental fragility we seem determined to promote.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but insult me online and you get to sit in prison.

[Dillinger]

are japanese jails a leg up on japanese apartment living?

[CE]

I think I see a way to finally get rid of our trillion dollar deficits….

[The Encogitationer]

Tax insults? Or better yet, tax Snowflakery?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The change comes two years after the suicide…

Don’t dis your own culture, Japan.

[Don Draper]

The country that prohibits display of pubic hair yet allows images of children sodomized via tentacle rape now purports to be the voice of reason on civility.

Yup…okey dokey…whatever…

[RandyGoldy]

It’s still weird to me that hockey puck means something like that, it was actually surprising to me, so urban dictionary keeps teaching me new things. And as a hockey fan, it’s pretty odd for me not knowing something like that, I even decided to read more about women’s hockey recently, so at that point, I thought I knew nearly everything related to this sport.