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Old 08-17-2010, 10:01 AM   #1
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Default Brazilian broadcasters forbidden from making fun of election candidates

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...ions_no_joking

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They call the anti-joking law — which prohibits ridiculing candidates in the three months before elections — a draconian relic of Brazil's dictatorship that threatens free speech and a blight on the reputation of Latin America's largest nation.
Wow...democracy at its finest.
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