Tenacious D Australian tour date postponed after comment about Trump shooting
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Australian senator Ralph Babet demands the duo, Hollywood star Jack Black and musician Kyle Gass, be deported over the latter’s comment

The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

American comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass were due to perform in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, but the show – part of the band’s Spicy Meatball Tour – was cancelled without notice on Tuesday afternoon.

Concert promoter Frontier Touring said on social media that it regretted “to advise that Tenacious D’s concert tonight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been postponed”.

Video from the event showed (Kyle) Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I am not very well versed in Australian law, but this indicates to me that free speech is indeed protected in Australia.

    It aims to, but it is not a right.

    See the two exclusions on the page you linked.

    blocked when…

    ( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others; ( b ) For the protection of national security or of public order, or of public health or morals.

    In this case, public order may be considered valid, although my personal view is that it wasn’t.

    In Australia, humour has a long history of bad taste, but a longer history of religious repression through law. Think 1960s America - that describes much of Australian rural culture, with extra bad language. (Although NSW was a lot more tolerant when I travelled around the country)

    In the UK, free speech is not possible either. See D-notices, and later super-injunctions to stop media and individuals reporting on facts.

    • the_strange@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      In the UK, free speech is not possible either. See D-notices, and later super-injunctions to stop media and individuals reporting on facts.

      Please provide examples.

    • VodkaSolution @feddit.itEnglish
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      4 months ago

      ( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others

      So you can’t just insult someone, that’s not bad

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        That’s about defamation and privacy, we have the law in America. The First Amendment doesn’t protect defamatory speech or speech that infringes on recognized privacy rights, such as the right to self publicity, the right to be free of misappropriation of name or likeness, etc.

        • VodkaSolution @feddit.itEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Hoping a shooter would have killed someone, even Trump, is - not even borderline - hate speech, I don’t get it. Jack is right. And US laws mean nothing outside US

          • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            4 months ago

            “Hate speech” isn’t a ban on being able to vocally hate individual people.