An international human rights monitoring organisation has urged Ireland to introduce new laws to penalise hate speech as a matter of urgency and to ensure that expressions of hate speech are “punishable by effective, proportionate …
An international human rights monitoring organisation has urged Ireland to introduce new laws to penalise hate speech as a matter of urgency and to ensure that expressions of hate speech are “punishable by effective, proportionate …
The Department of Justice has received 269 emails expressing concerns about the proposed hate speech bill, highlighting issues like freedom of speech and gender discrimination. The proposed hate speech legislation in Ireland has sparked significant …
The Irish governments drive to pass Orwellian thought crime legislation, against the wishes of the majority of the Irish public, is garnering yet more media attention internationally as Irish media, for the most part, remains …
As the Irish government pushes forward with unprecedented speech restrictions that would see people criminalised for merely possessing material deemed “hateful”, the Irish Freedom Party has called for a rally in support of free speech …
“Silencing speech is akin to throttling freedom, and gagging expression is like suffocating democracy” Rural TDs are sounding the alarm over the government’s new Hate Speech legislation, warning that it poses a draconian crackdown to …
As the Irish government pushes forward with unprecedented speech restrictions that would see people criminalised for merely possessing material deemed “hateful”, the Irish Freedom Party has called for a rally in support of free speech …
Multi-billionaire titan of tech, Elon Musk, has tweeted his support for the ‘Free Speech Ireland’ movement, replying to a tweet by the movement, echoing their stance and stating that the proposed legislation represents a a …
The Irish government are pushing ahead with plans to criminalise speech it opposes under the guise of “hate speech” legislation. On Gov.ie website the new hate speech bill is described as having the following aim: …
Justice Minister Helen McEntee will publish new legislation today to tackle hate crimes and hate speech. The Incitement to Violence or Hate Crimes Bill is designed to facilitate the prosecution of these crimes and includes …
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