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.