This is not a hateful website. Ireland has just passed new legislation in the Daíl, (Irish Government) that will make certain forms of 'hate speech' illegal. 'Hate speech' already is illegal under existing legislation but this new extreme legislation has been pushed through with little debate and is believed by many to be unconstitutional.
I and many others are opposed to ALL of the new legislation, however one part of the legislation is getting a large amount of attention both at home and internationally. If you have 'hateful' material in your pocession, you are liable to be prosecuted. You must also prove yourself innocent. Who remembers 'Innocent until proven guilty' this is a law that actively steps all over that beautiful concept.
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/105/eng/initiated/b10522d-p-c-sent.pdf
Offence of preparing or possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics
1. (a) prepares or possesses material that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics with a view to the material being communicated to the public or a section of the public, whether by himself or herself or another person, and
(3) In any proceedings for an offence under this section, where it is proved that the accused person was in possession of material such as is referred to in subsection (1) and it is reasonable to assume that the material was not intended for the personal use of the person, the person shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been in possession of the material in contravention of subsection (1)
May 8 '23
Who wrote and proposed: Minister for Justice - Helen McEntee wrote drafted proposed reccomendation from the EU Spearheaded by irish minister of justice but led by the EU
Why do the EU have such strong interest in Irish Hate Speech Laws ?Ireland is important with regards to internet use
The current Data protection laws are Europen wide.
If you Have to raise privacy conerns from anywhere in Europe.
You raise a problem with the Irish Data protection.
We regulate these companies in Ireland.
While enacted in Ireland this will be in effect the European hate speech law and in fact the hate speech law for the world its about setting the precedence sets the model for how it will be done around the world
(ALSO once the software controls and reporting systems are already created and in use, it will be very easy for other areas of the world to follow suite and piggyback on what already works)
This is the CLEANEST way to do it from a European angle
On the Level, Life, 93.1 FM
Broadcast 10 May '23
There has been a lack of information presented
In the weeks coming up to this, people were not aware that the Final version was ready. People can subscribe to automatic email update from oireachtas.ie that emails the upcoming schedule for things, the information about when this debate and vote were scheduled only showed up a day before the vote. This is what FreeSpeechIreland said, as they only received the email then.
FreeSpeechIreland think it was the same for political parties, and TD's. PeopleBeforeProfit a party, only prepared amendments the day before. The debate before the bill only had 4 tds present. 30 tds were not present for the vote.
They said it was slipped in under our noses and maybe deliberately
if sent to supreme court
Call a senator from your area or alma mater
Call today / call tomorrow
Alexander Sheridan - Director Free Speech Ireland
08 Mar 2022
lawsociety.ie ireland opt inIreland will opt in to collective European measures to ban hate speech, justice minister Helen McEntee has said. She was speaking after the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels (3-4 March).
The minister said that hate speech undermines the foundations of a democratic and inclusive society, and the common values enshrined in the EU treaties. Extending the ‘EU crimes’ list is the first step in addressing this, she added.
>> We must go further than what the EU defined
>> This also shows we do not have to accept the current Hate speech bill in its current form
However, any proposed legislation to regulate the media or online content must satisfy the requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality, IHREC has said. https://www.ihrec.ie/app/uploads/2021/03/IHREC-Submission-to-the-Joint-Committee-on-Media-Tourism-Arts-Culture-Sport-and-the-Gaeltacht-on-the-General-Scheme-of-the-Online-Safety-and-Media-Regulation-Bill-FINAL.pdf Only certain, more severe, hate-speech expressions meet the threshold of incitement to hatred, the organisation said last March, in a written submission to the Oireachtas. >> again this is not what is in the current bill >> the government have managed to squeeze in so much more The human-rights body has pointed out that not all hate speech merits a criminal-law response. In particular, the rights to freedom of expression, privacy and freedom of assembly must be protected. IHREC adds that the right to freedom of expression is protected under the Constitution, European and international law, and includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, without interference by public authorities, and regardless of frontiers.
‘Irritating or shocking’ views IHREC added that the right to freedom of expression also imposes positive obligations on the State to protect authors and journalists, in order to create a favourable environment for expression of opinions and ideas without fear, even if these ideas are “irritating or shocking”.