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Mocking the police got an Ohio man arrested – and the Supreme Court ignored The Onion's plea to define the limits of parody

  • Written by Jane E. Kirtley, Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota
Mocking the police got an Ohio man arrested – and the Supreme Court ignored The Onion's plea to define the limits of parodySatire can be dangerous.DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images

Can Americans be jailed for making fun of the government? Most would respond with a resounding “No, of course not! The First Amendment protects us from that.”

But Anthony Novak learned otherwise in March 2016, after he created and posted a fake version of the Parma, Ohio, Police...

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