Human rights enthusiasts often portray the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights as a pure distillation of European values, bulwarks of protection for the fundamental and equal rights of human beings, institutions refreshingly above politics. Look more closely, however, and you might take a rather different view of the Council […]
“In what way is this credible?”: Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee is asked how activists and government-funded NGOs who have campaigned for hate speech laws for years can be cited as evidence that her hate speech bill is popular. #gript
Free speech is messy. And brands do not like messy.
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The head of the ICCL made the comments on Twitter.
“right to lawful free”
The hate-speech bill – or the anti-free speech bill as its critics would describe it – has become hugely controversial. Fine Gael senator, Regina Doherty, says she has “never received as many emails about a particular piece of legislation as I have in respect of this one”, perhaps with the “exception of the mother and […]
Alas, it can be said of the “Irish right” that they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Hoisted on their own petard.
In a democratic society, the right to speak your mind is of paramount importance