A man is going to federal prison for a meme. He’s going to prison for satire, for a joke. It began back during the meme wars of 2016 when memesters across the web were sending out jokes, essentially political cartoons, making fun of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, boosting Donald Trump, and generally wreaking glorious havoc on political discourse across the web.
Douglass Mackey shared a meme that essentially made the joke that Hillary Clinton supporters were too lacking in intelligence to realize they couldn’t submit their vote by text. https://humanevents.com/2023/11/10/libby-emmons-the-first-amendment-means-we-get-to-make-jokes-douglass-mackey-should-not-be-serving-time-for-a-meme
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