On facebook, underneath this post, there will be an official message from facebook urging you to seek out trustworthy vaccine information.
A panicked political class is running out of alternative ideas, and when in doubt, they go back to what’s worked for them before.
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist
Perhaps, in a tolerant society, we might tolerate the fact that from time to time, people will get it wrong, and say silly things. Is that too much to ask?
“dangerous precedent”
Pour encourager les autres.
This is part of a legislative pattern: The Government’s most abiding fear, at this moment in time, is that you the public are seeing things and hearing things that it does not wish you to hear.
It does count, without any doubt, as a social media company actively putting its thumb on the scale of public discussion and debate to influence public policy outcomes.
“They’re afraid to speak out”: Senator Sharon Keogan speaks on the Ireland’s new hate speech bill, and says that other politicians are fearful of discussing their views on certain issues.
Innocent curiosity
People gathered in Dublin to discuss the implications of Helen McEntee’s hate speech law. Speakers include Senator Sharon Keogan and Prof. Gerard Casey and Mattie McGrath TD. Organised by Free Speech Ireland the proposed law has been described as “chilling”
During covid, people were not just banned for vaccine conspiracy theories. They were also banned for reasonable questions.