It was only 90 days in jail. It was a social punishment. Some things you don't joke about publicly. Is it ridiculous? Sure it is. But when you have a minority opinion, even a minority sense of humor and live within a culture that wouldn't put your opinions on billboards, there's likely consequences for opening the mouth, whether drunk or sober. It's just a reality. Wanna change it? Go ahead. You can complain about it. You can work towards a change of laws. There's a number of ways. Those freedoms are allowed. Some speech freedoms are not. I think it's ridiculous, but living on the planet in these societies that we live in, it's ridiculous to believe that there could even *be* a magical place where anything goes. There's no such place.