Law Brazilian Comedian Leo Lins Sentenced to Over Eight Years in Prison for Stand-Up Routine - Brazil just criminalized offense in its purest form.

Brazilian Comedian Leo Lins Sentenced to Over Eight Years in Prison for Stand-Up Routine.​

TL;DR –
"the material denigrated a wide swath of Brazil’s population; including Jews, people with disabilities, the elderly, gay individuals, black citizens, indigenous groups, northeastern Brazilians, those living with HIV, evangelical Christians, and others.“
Sentence –
8 years, 1 month + fine of 300.000 Brazilian Reais
(I have it on good authority that this is the monopoly money Brazil uses, and it equals about €54000 or $60000 in real world money)

NB: This was by the government that “the West” liked because the guy he was facing was “Brazilian Trump” and basically the Brazilian second coming of Hitler.

In Brazil, telling the wrong joke now carries more jail time than most white-collar crime.

Cindy Harper

A Brazilian comedian has been handed a prison sentence of over eight years for a stand-up routine, setting off a storm over the growing use of state power to penalize speech that challenges cultural taboos.

Leo Lins, known for his provocative style, was convicted by a federal court in São Paulo for allegedly promoting intolerance through jokes delivered during a live performance and later circulated widely online.

The show in question, titled Perturbador (“Disturbing”), was posted to YouTube in 2022 and had reached more than three million views before it was taken down in 2023, following a judicial order prompted by a complaint from prosecutors.

In their case, officials claimed that the material denigrated a wide swath of Brazil’s population; including Jews, people with disabilities, the elderly, gay individuals, black citizens, indigenous groups, northeastern Brazilians, those living with HIV, evangelical Christians, and others.

Citing the scale of the video’s reach and the perceived harm of its content, the court framed the ruling as a defense of “human dignity,” arguing that the right to speak freely must yield when it allegedly infringes upon this principle.

The judgment labeled Lins’s comedy as “verbal violence” and claimed it contributes to a climate of social division. A financial penalty of 300,000 reais (around €54,000) was also imposed for what the court described as damage to the collective moral fabric.

Lins’s legal team swiftly denounced the sentence and announced plans to appeal. His lawyer issued a sharp rebuke of the court’s decision: “Watching a comedian receive the same punishment as someone convicted of drug trafficking, corruption, or even murder, all because of jokes told on stage, is deeply troubling.”

Among those speaking out against the verdict were fellow performers who warned that such actions risk eroding democratic freedoms under the guise of protecting sensibilities.

Link:

https://reclaimthenet.org/leo-lins-sentenced-to-over-eight-years-in-prison

Archive:

https://archive.ph/q9nhk

Further reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/07/brazil-comedian-leo-lins-free-speech/
Archive:

https://archive.ph/P7L5q

 

[pwnest injun]

You know how lower court district judges are trying to dictate foreign and domestic policy in the USA? That's how Brazil is, 100%. Total judicial tyranny.

 

[Safir]

Are you sure that's the rule you want to enshrine in law? Because that won't work out well for you.

This is quq thinking. If you hit your enemy hard enough, he won't recover. And the opposite, if you abstain from hitting your enemy, he won't abstain from hitting you.

(no opinion on the fag in the OP, I need to see the "jokes"; if he's a pedo, he can rot)

 

[AN/ALR56]

You know how lower court district judges are trying to dictate foreign and domestic policy in the USA? That's how Brazil is, 100%. Total judicial tyranny.

We adopted positivism.
I will get a chatgpt quote on how shit that ideology is:

Legal Positivism: A Degenerate Doctrine Undermining Justice and Order

Legal positivism is a decadent, soulless doctrine that treats the law as nothing more than what is formally written, regardless of whether it’s just, moral, or beneficial to the nation. Imported from decaying European ideologies, it has gutted the Brazilian legal system, disconnecting it from reality, tradition, and the natural order.

Blind obedience to corrupt laws

Under positivism, justice is reduced to mindless compliance. Even the most absurd or harmful law becomes “valid” as long as it follows procedure. This empowers corrupt politicians and ideologues, who can impose their will through legislation, knowing that judges will enforce it without questioning its legitimacy or morality.

A weak, politicized, incoherent judiciary

Judges have become cowards or ideologues, refusing to stand for truth or moral order. The same law is interpreted differently in each court, because positivism refuses to acknowledge higher principles that could guide interpretation. This leads to utter legal chaos, where outcomes depend on political bias rather than clear standards.

Paralysis and bureaucratic tyranny

Legal change becomes nearly impossible, trapped in a maze of formalities. Society is held hostage by legal technocrats and a bloated bureaucracy, and courts serve as arbiters of ideology, not protectors of justice.

In short, legal positivism has produced a morally hollow, incoherent legal system, where power is divorced from virtue and the law has become a tool of domination instead of a reflection of the natural and moral order.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Any pimps, rapists, or child-bisecters get 8 years down there? Or just this harmless edgelord guy?

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

The same people who scream the loudest about "Muh Military Dictatorship" are right now wishing for heavier control of social media and news, and also cheering on arresting people for decades over "attacks on the honor of the judiciary".

These people, who treat champagne socialists who left Brazil in the 1970s to spend time in Europe because of the Dictatorship as heroes and martyrs now call people who are fleeing this bullshit cowards. The same people who turn around to talk about "fascist Bolsonaro" are demanding decades of arrest to people who protested Lula and demanding the relatives and kids of people charged be arrested to force them to return to Brazil. And of course, they think it is perfectly justified because "muh Democracy".

Another thing that is important to understand: here in Brazil, you can be arrested for "insensitive comments" (i.e: Racism) since 1997. Basically, Racism/discrimination is a crime punishable by law. Yet, remains to be seen if "hatred of Whites" is treated the same.

That, and it's also a Maximum Democracy place, even thought nobody can even explain what the fuck that even means, because it's actually imposed on everyone in the country by a Lex Luthor looking creature, with the most anti-social physiognomy imaginable.

He's not only Lex Luthor, but Jonathan Greenblatt! A person with links to PCC (One of the main armed groups in São Paulo state).

As for Léo Lins' jokes, it is mostly "edgy" (but in the good sense) jokes, ones that make you chuckle. Dark humour, but with a sense of wit to it, and of course it had your usual mockery of the realities of being a Brazilian, coupled with how "we are fucked" daily, and even some things at the expense of fatasses, faggots, even darkies, Jews - but to a minimum.

 

[Would]

"the material denigrated a wide swath of Brazil’s population; including Jews, people with disabilities, the elderly, gay individuals, black citizens, indigenous groups, northeastern Brazilians, those living with HIV, evangelical Christians, and others.“

I'm not sure what's worse; the fact a man got jailed for a generic 90s stand-up routine that Chris Rock could've performed on a bad day, or that Brasil thinks homos, niggers, losers, aids fags, and kikes are "a wide swath" of Brazil's populace.

 

[The handsome tard]

No aspect of "Muh Democracy" is capable of maintaining form under scrutiny. We see this not only all throughout the West, but also with South Africa and Brazil. Especially in the latter, none of the BR neolibs have explained any benefit to “democracy” as a general matter, beyond claiming that it creates different viewpoints (lol). Democracy is not generally considered beneficial, as Russia, China, Vietnam and other Global South nations have figured out. Typically, the more similar and normal the viewpoints are, the better people get along with one another. This is pretty basic human biology.

Doesnt help a concerningly high number of brazillians are extremely uneducated (borderline incapable of reading and writing) and we are led to believe that they are capable of understand how voting works and who they are voting at all? Including their policies?

You try explaining this to them and they unironically look at you like this.



But if you dare to argue that there needs to be a proven level of education and understanding for voting, thats called "fascist" which is the magical word to shut down any argument because its also another word for "Thats what the nazis would do" and god forbid if any arguments need to go beyond the usage of history's super villains that are "ze nazis".

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Even 8 years for bad words isn't considered too severe a punishment by them, crazy.

This is why an AI was able to unironically trick them, the lack of personality, humanity, depth and disturbingly high levels of apathy towards anything beyond surface level (borderline sociopath) seems par for the course.

"You are so stupid that Im surprised you even gathered enough brainpower to figure out how to turn on a computer, let alone write this. Impressive."

The same people who scream the loudest about "Muh Military Dictatorship" are right now wishing for heavier control of social media and news, and also cheering on arresting people for decades over "attacks on the honor of the judiciary".

These people, who treat champagne socialists who left Brazil in the 1970s to spend time in Europe because of the Dictatorship as heroes and martyrs now call people who are fleeing this bullshit cowards. The same people who turn around to talk about "fascist Bolsonaro" are demanding decades of arrest to people who protested Lula and demanding the relatives and kids of people charged be arrested to force them to return to Brazil. And of course, they think it is perfectly justified because "muh Democracy".

The "military dictatorship" only did one single mistake

Not killing all the commies like God intended.

 

[Kyria the Great]

I love the fact that Brazil is spending more energy on a man doing a comedy routine than all the Favalea gangs and those who will rob and murder you out in the countryside. Anarcho-tyranny seems to be the true government type of Brazil and we should tell anyone that becoming more like LatAm is a good thing to "Get Fucked."

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Checking in on our friends at reddit

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Forgive me for referencing pop media but really

Really.