A comedian’s job is to make you laugh, there are no boundaries, not every one has the same sense of humor. If you know the kind of material a certain comedian talks about then it should be a pretty simple decision for you to not attend their show. As for that woman who heckled Tosh , she got what she deserved. You do not go to a comic show to take a stance on what is politically correct. You go there to laugh. Once you start taking a comedian serious to that point , you’re no longer searching for entertainment. This is one of Louis C.K.’s rape jokes and not one person in the audience objects to this. Because they know it is merely a comedy show not a lecture.
Good point, human male. But if I may…
The problem with this comparison is that Louis C.K.’s joke is not trivializing rape or making fun of rape victims. His joke is pointing at the ridiculousness of a rapist’s perspective and thought process. “I want to fuck somebody and they won’t let me? I will still fuck that person.” Louis C.K.’s rape joke is about rape, sure, but the punchline is the rapist. Rapists are being made fun of here.
Daniel Tosh said that rape jokes are always funny because he thinks rape is hilarious, and then when a woman spoke up, he said “Wouldn’t it be funny if this woman here got raped by five guys right now?” Now, it’s pretty common knowledge that 1/4 of women have been sexually assaulted in their lives (not including unreported assaults), and if a comedian outright says that the terrible violent act against a woman is hilarious, the comedian should not be surprised when a woman speaks up about it. I’m not saying the woman in question was a victim of rape, but there’s more than a 25% chance that Daniel Tosh told a rape victim that it would be hilarious if she was raped by five guys at that moment. “Got what she deserved”, apparently.
Anyway.
Daniel Tosh’s rape jokes are about how hilarious rape is. His punchlines are rape victims and the act of rape.
Louis C.K.’s rape jokes are about how stupid rapists are. His punchlines are rapists.
Because fuck rapists.
Rape them, in fact.
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: All Richard O’Dwyer did was start a website that linked to external sources where people could watch U.S. TV and movies online. He didn’t even get rich doing it.
Now the 24-year-old U.K. student is being targeted for extradition by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has decided to make O’Dwyer its prime target in its battle against digital copyright infringement.
O’Dwyer has been charged with criminal infringement of copyright, and conspiracy to commit criminal infringement of copyright. Each carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.
How is this possible, when O’Dwyer’s site merely functioned as the middle man? The Guardian explains:
To sell a counterfeit CD or DVD of a copyrighted work is an offense, as is deliberately uploading such a work to the Internet.
American customs officials, after campaigning from industry bodies, contended that linking to such items on other sites (as search engines and others automatically do) would also be covered by such laws.
This is a contentious interpretation of the law, even in the U.S., where linking has in some court cases been regarded as protected speech under the first amendment. Part of the reason for the huge backlash against proposed copyright laws, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect [Intellectual Property] Act, was that this provision would come under attack.
It’s been two years since ICE agents first knocked on O’Dwyer’s door in the U.K. and hauled him in for questioning.
Since he was released on bail, U.S. officials have taken over O’Dwyer’s domain,tvshack.net, and replaced it with a large warning against copyright infringement; seized his computer and paperwork relating to the site; and frozen the site’s PayPal and email accounts.
O’Dwyer’s mom is campaigning online to keep her son from being made a scapegoat, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has started an online petition to raise awareness. But so far, they’ve had little luck.
Adding insult to injury, officially challenging the details of the case can only be done in U.S. courts — not in the U.K.
As he waits for his case to progress, O’Dwyer is perplexed at how his life has turned into one big, bad dream.
“There’s literally no reason I can think of why it has to be heard in America… at no point was the site ever in America,” O’Dwyer says. “I think they’re trying to use my website as a sort of guinea pig to try to scare everyone else making linking websites.”
(A complete timeline of the case, in reverse chronology, can be found here.)
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$49,000 down the drain (TVA)
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Rémi Nadeau June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2012/06/20120618-045957.html
Tuition raise advertisement goes unused
In their current ad campaign in support of tuition raises, the Quebec government had invested $49,000 into an ad shoot. In the end however, the ad was never used.
Last week, the Journal de Québec revealed that Charest and his government have channeled $866,000 into current ad campaigns in support of tuition raises.
In order to produce the public announcement, (intended for television and online viewers), the government spent $49,000 for one day of shooting, which took place on June 2nd.
A studio production company, hired by the government, engaged a full team of workers, and all required production equipment to execute the project.
