Speaking at a Free Speech Ireland event in Dublin, Senator Sharon Keogan said the government’s new hate speech bill is partly designed to keep political dissenters quiet.
There’s a difference in other words between high status lunacy and low status lunacy.
It’s the classic Irish political solution – do somethingism
Independent Senator Michael McDowell is a barrister, and a sharp cookie. We probably don’t agree on many things, but he’s always struck me as a man who respects civil liberties and who is unafraid to voice an opinion, even an unpopular one. Today he wrote to Minister Simon Harris, to outline a devastating flaw in […]
Soft power does not need ‘public consultations’
“The few who dare must speak and speak again.”
“Chilling effect on the ordinary person”
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar defends disregarding the results of the public consultation on “hate speech” laws, arguing that “very often” such consultations are hijacked by “campaigning groups” and are not “reflective of public opinion.” #gript
Ultimately, the only way to resist is to completely ignore this law.
This initiative is not about inclusivity, and never was: It is about political and cultural insurance.
“Bertie should have been charged for crimes…people are tired of traditional politics”: Peter Casey talks Bertie Ahern’s return, hate speech laws, gender ideology in schools, should Ireland leave the EU, and how he thinks the President could have ended the lockdown restrictions. View all this and more on Gript: #gript
“Salami tactics.”