This particular consultation concerns what the Government should do about “misinformation” and “disinformation”.
Different views
What RTE has in common with the Roman Catholic Church.
“The other side are worse” cannot be an excuse for bad behaviour on your own side.
You wouldn’t get a platform on RTE to say what he just said. And neither, you’ll note, will he.
Eventually, the scale of the problems created by liberalism and its prejudices allow people to overcome their fears about being called “far right”.
The episode has been withdrawn from the RTE player.
“They are coming for Russell Brand because he speaks the truth” is the kind of cheap slogan that is designed, and intended, to stop you from actually thinking.
We’ll wear this one as a badge of honour. If you’re taking flak, you are, as they say, above the target.
Organisations have this kind of thing in their DNA.
To say that all of this is a problem politicians do not want to have to deal with is an understatement:
in a more relaxed setting, politicians were obviously and perhaps understandably more open to expressing, and considering, a wider range of views.