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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 2 years ago by SecurityPro@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is calling Epstein island visitors pedos hate speech?

Seriously, these NPCs give absolutely 0 thought to the negative things brain dead laws like this enable

…is calling trump supporters Nazis hate speech? That law is gonna have quite a lot of targets if so

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 2 points 2 years ago

Slippery slope fallacy. Hate crime laws have been on the books in America since 1968 and I'm not aware of them leading to the end of free speech in America.