“Vicar Street has earned a reputation for professionalism and for contributing to Dublin’s cultural life. That reputation is at stake.”
This is the thing about our political class, and it explains a lot of the problems in the country: If it does not affect them personally, they do not care.
It is not the job of the Garda Commissioner to make the laws – merely to enforce them.
Tweets
“Extreme state-overreach.”
After X brought High Court action
Taoiseach said the 1989 Act needed to be “modernised” to deal with online speech.
“broader architecture of censorship”
“We want to be in compliance with the European framework.”
To live in the era of liberal governance and to understand it, one must first know that ancient quote, oft attributed to Cicero: “For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law”.
To censor; or not to censor; that is the question.
New backlash.