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The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful". (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind... Anywhere!

https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09[https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09](url)

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[–] FrankTheHealer 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm.irish and this is the first I'm hearing about this.

I'm doubtful such a thing would be a priority for this government since they are very unpopular given the housing crisis and cost of living increase. They will do everything to scrape votes ahead of the next election.

[–] khannie 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd never heard of it either but apparently it's already passed through the dáil. Seems like it's coming. I believe it's well intentioned and I generally agree with it but my concern is around a future potentially authoritarian government that might abuse it to silence dissent.

I'm just about to add a top level comment with my digging. Will link it here in a minute.

https://lemmy.world/comment/6751657