The more you overtly try to crush dissent, the more obvious it becomes that the dissenters might be saying something worthwhile.
Ireland’s official anti-disinformation body failed to provide a single example of disinformation when asked, despite its CEO claiming that electoral disinformation is spreading at an “enormous” scale. Ben Scallan reports: #gript
To discuss the hate speech bill.
One shudders to think of the national conversation that would presently be ongoing if the attacked migrants had been handing out leaflets in favour of more immigration, rather than in favour of more prayer.
The surest way to eliminate violence, over time, is to make violence a futile endeavor.
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.