Repeated insistence.
Free speech has to extend to extend even to the dumbest slogans, otherwise it is not free at all.
“We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media.”
Simon Harris destroys Helen McEntee’s hate speech argument
When your culture has elements within it that are evidently harmful and self-destructive, it is not the duty of the state to try and mitigate that.
Ex-footballer faces malicious communications charge
According to newly-elected Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman, Ireland’s hate speech bill should be passed within a matter of months.
Protests
“Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, sticking together to hold out what the centre perceives as the fringes.”
Base politics.
Perverse incentive.
Green Party pushing for EU-wide hate speech laws