Mexican congresswoman proposes prison time for creating memes - Nice Meme!

Via TeleSUR:

The lawmaker suggests a penalty of up to four years in prison and a fine of nearly US $2,000 for meme creators.

A Mexican lawmaker for the ruling PRI party will present a bill before her state's congress to criminalize the creation and dissemination of memes on social networks.

Martha Orta Rodriguez suggests a penalty of up to four years in prison and a fine of nearly US$2,000 for those responsible for creating these often humorous and satirical images on the Web.

Orta said she is trying to prevent “harmful" and “humiliating” images from being circulated on the Internet, but unsurprisingly her proposal was not received well online.

A viral campaign of memes has flooded the web in Mexico with all kind of jokes and comments making fun of the lawmaker’s plans to criminalize them.

Orta Rodriguez belongs to the most conservative wing of the PRI party in the north-central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.

The criticisms against her proposal have been fueled by the fact that the state she represents has more than 2.3 million people living in poverty.

Residents believe that lawmakers should be addressing other issues rather than being worried about what people do with memes on the Internet.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Via TeleSUR:

She just made an amazing meme

 

[ZehnBoat]

shit, i made a meme once for reals.
brb, going into hiding

 

[Splendid]

I would like to see this cuck come arrest me.

 

[Ruin]

I guess Mexico on the verge of being a failed narco state isn't as important as stopping.

 

[Tookie]

BUILD THE WALL

 

[Splendid]

@Everyone in this thread

Nice Meme

 

[AnimuGinger]

Too bad I'm behind 9 proxies. Bitch never gonna catch me.

 

[ZehnBoat]

I guess Mexico on the verge of being a failed narco state isn't as important as stopping.

to be fair doge is a stupid shitty meme, and anyone that likes it should be hung.

 

[Bokrug's Basement]

Is it four years for making memes in general, or four years for each individual meme you're in possession of?

Brb gotta truecrypt my meme content.

 

[Ruin]

four years for each individual meme you're in possession of?

Chantards are fucked.

 

[Splendid]

Too bad I'm behind 9 proxies. Bitch never gonna catch me.

Nice meme

 

[AnimuGinger]

Nice meme

I think it would be a bueno meme, in this case.

 

[melty]

Does the penalty vary with how dank the meme is? Like of its not very good I don't think you should get much jail time. Like getting caught with an ounce vs. a kilo.

 

[Functional Animal]

Do you you want to be humiliated with memes? 'Cause this is how you get humiliated with memes.

 

[DuskEngine]

http://nicememe.mx/

 

[bearycool]

In Spanish, instead of saying " nice meme" we say "el MAY-MAY bueno" or "el bien MAY-MAY"

These are revolutionary terms against the satanic drug cartels, and our patron saint "Dogesse" guides us with her immaculate WOW light. Woe unto those are not bathed in are bases that are belonged to us, for they shall surely perish. Our MAY-MAY shall surely triumph against those pinches cabrones, and we will rise into a new era of Mexican May-mays.

OLE~

 

[melty]

Wall just got 9000ft higher ayyyy

 

[Jack Haywood]

Via TeleSUR:

LONG LIVE THE INTERNET! NO-ONE CAN STOP US!

 

[Ian Brandon Anderson]

So what defines creating a meme? Would the guy who filmed Damn Daniel go to jail? Or would Daniel? Or would the people who create their own videos with the unfunny joke? Could you go to jail for saying "deez nuts?" Or would the first person who said it be held responsible? If it's image macros she's after, couldn't any image with text be a meme?

This is so fucked, I can't wait for the memes it generates.