Defend the right to be stupid in the middle of Ranveer Allahbadia Storm | Opinion

The most serious messages of life are transmitted better with ingenuity and humor. The same remained true to Ranveer Allahbadia and Samay Raina’s controversy That exploded this week. As most chose the outrage, the national obsession of India, the humorists helped to see madness. The problem here is serious: the right to freedom of expression and the criminalization of black humor.

The jokes are a serious business, and there are many possible possibilities that they do not terrify and that the comic in problems in problems. That is exactly what happened with the Podcaster Allahbadia, better known as Beerbiceps, in the Raina YouTube show, India has latent.

“Comedy is not my forte,” Allahbadia admitted while he offered an unconditional apology.

But by then, the problem had taken the form of a national controversy when presenting FIRS, and the Parliamentary Committee for Information Technology (TI) planned to issue a notice to Allahbadia and Raina.

As politicians and people outraged by such shows “denigrate Indian culture”, satirical moved to defend what should defend themselves, the right to be stupid.

“Defending your right to be stupid is not to defend your stupidity,” said columnist and satirical Kamlesh Singh in X. Singh is popular as Tau of the Taal podcast of Aaj Tak Radio, known for taking a look at the seriousness of life.

As democracy, there should be no need to defend the right of Allahbadia to be stupid, but that does not mean that one condemns its stupidity.

Here is also the fact that Allahbadia is being stupid at his coast. He is hurting his brand image and is not hurting anyone who the police need to intervene. It is a social problem, and society, not the State, must deal with that.

This is the greatest threat: allowing the State to intervene, and will regulate too much, since the word that is most associated with the State is a strict control.

The humorist Ramesh Srivats correctly equated the police action with tyranny, referring obliquely to the “hate crime.”

“He said something. Nobody liked it. They all criticized him. He apologized. Some people accepted. Some no. Crime.

How did society deal with issues like this?

Create filters.

It is your first filter. Do not see content that does not adapt to you. Anyway, most online content works in the ‘I don’t like it, don’t see’.

The second filter is his friends, online and offline. The algorithms throw you what they could have seen and liked. Do not hesitate to work on your friends.

The third filter is what we need to develop as a community before intervening the State.

YouTube was forced to remove the video of Allahbadia.

One way is that youtubers and podcasters mark their content, indicating that they are appropriate only for mature audiences. In fact, YouTube offers age classification for videos. Parent supervision works better in such cases.

There is also the comedy of the absurd in the complete work here.

After India has had latent controversy, a team of Mumbai police arrived at Khar’s study Where the program was filmed, Ani news agency reported.

Most likely, the police tried to find the beans after the roast.

The squeeze feels more for standing comics. From race to religion, from gender problems to disability, from politics to hypernationalism, no serious issue can be analyzed through the worst ingenuity.

Logically, there should be no restrictions on freedom of expression. This is because the social moral filter is a strainer with superfine pores. Once you begin to leak, nothing will leakes.

“The problem with ‘reasonable restrictions’ about freedom of expression is that it is always the most unreasonable people who end up defining what is reasonable,” said Ramesh Srivats.

That is what is at stake, for comics and for society in general. We should defend the right to be stupid. And no one defends stupidity here.

(The opinions expressed in this opinion article are those of the author)