“The question is, who gets to say what’s hateful and what isn’t?”: Toby Young of the UK’s Free Speech Union says a Hate Speech law would stop people expressing “perfectly legitimate points of view”, as he talks about similar attempts to police speech throughout the UK. #gript
“This is out of the dark ages. This is not something that we would expect from a modern, progressive country like Ireland”: Journalist Michael Shellenberger says Ireland’s Hate Speech legislation is the “most draconian initiative anywhere in the world right now.” #gript