The Babylon Bee filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court to support Anthony Novak, who created a parody Facebook page in 2016 to mock his local police department.
Babylon Bee Editor in Chief Kyle Mann discusses the amicus brief sent to the Supreme Court on behalf of Ohio comedian Anthony Novak.is pointless if Americans can’t mock government officials, according to satirical website The Babylon Bee. editor-in-chief Kyle MannThe Babylon Bee recently filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court to support Anthony Novak, a man who created a parody Facebook page in 2016 to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio.
The Bee, a wildly popular satirical website, joined the liberal parody site, The Onion, and urged the"What we're trying to do is get this heard by the Supreme Court so that a private citizen who is doing a parody of, you know, whoever it is, especially government entities and police and those in authority aren't in danger… those people wouldn't be in danger of being arrested for that," Mann said.
"Like Mr. Novak, The Bee is frequently the target of censorship and attacks from powerful people who don’t get—or at least don’t appreciate—its jokes. The Bee has faced the ire of a diverse group of establishment-media types—including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN—and the wrath of the massive tech companies who functionally control the lion’s share of public debate in our society," Babylon Bee legal counsel Emmett E. Robinson wrote.
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