Wenn Sie der Ansicht sind, dass der Regierung auf die Einführung neuer Gesetze in Bezug auf Hassreden, Chatkontrolle, Desinformation und soziale Medienregulierung vertraut werden kann, kontrollieren Sie sich nur mit dem Portrait Gate von 2009.
Politiker bekommt seine Gefühle verletzt
Garda wird sofort entsandt, um zu untersuchen
RTé entschuldigt sich dafür, dass er die Geschichte ausgeführt hat und sie aus ihrem Archiv aus schrubbt
Garda kommt heute bei FM an („Auf Anordnungen höherer Ups“), um E -Mails zu suchen, um eine journalistische Quelle und den Künstler / „Hassdacht kriminellen“ zu identifizieren, der identifiziert wird.
Die Datei wird für den DPP vorbereitet
Wenn Sie den Humor und Absurdität von ihm überwinden, war es in Wirklichkeit absolut skandalös. Es zeigte, wie klein diese Verantwortlichen sind und wie bereit sie sind, die ihnen verliehene Kraft zu missbrauchen.
Die „robusten Überprüfungen“, die sie versprechen, die nichts bedeuten, weil sie diktieren, was diese Überprüfungen sind. Das „unabhängige Versehen“, das sie versprechen, bedeuten nichts, weil sie diese Aufseher ernennen und letztendlich ihren Lohn zahlen.
Der Umfang der Macht und die Beschränkung der Freiheit, die die Regierung im Jahr 2025 erfassen möchte, ist ziemlich unergründlich.
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Von Narwhal_2112
23 Kommentare
His stint as Taoiseach was an incitement to hatred!
I don’t remember that at all. Was somebody charged or were the robust checks and balances effective?
Bodyshaming as crime.
> The “robust checks and balances” they promise mean nothing, because they dictate what those checks are. The “independent oversight” they promise mean nothing, because they appoint those overseers and ultimately pay their wages.
How did the prosecution go?
Legitimately thought this was Graham Lineham.
This is my first time actually seeing this painting. I remember it was so HEINOUS at the time I’d only ever seen it as a blurred mass of pixels as the news presenter described people being absolutely horrified by the picture in question.
Moobgate
No one with a shred of decency wanted someone like him in charge of the country in the worst time possible, so some tend to be a little bit more emotional. Sometimes, they express their frustration by creating than destroying.
Thank God they didn’t have more important things to investigate so they could make time for this.
That’s a perfect example of it. I had forgotten about that. What we condemn in other places, particular the UK recently, has happened here. The gardai seem willing to be as bad as any other police force when encouraged by the political class. All it would take us for us to elected another prickly personality who doesn’t like it up him like cowen was.
Sleep paralysis demon .
https://preview.redd.it/vml8yspwmjkf1.jpeg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f2487a87e701afc043700b2209945d11c9c7718
„All the big boys, all the Berties…
All the envelopes, yeah, they hurt us…“
I sense great vulnerability, a man-child crying out for love, an innocent orphan in the postmodern world.
>When you get past the humour and absurdity of it, it was in reality absolutely scandalous. It showed how petty those in charge are, and how willing they are to abuse the power bestowed on them.
100% this. Wild that this basically happened unchallenged.
Reminds me of when Regina Doherty used the guards to intimidate a journalist
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/blogger-considers-legal-action-over-garda-caution-at-airport-1.3145958
The references to incitement to hatred were perhaps the most obvious indication that the gardaí were grasping for any possible pretext with which to charge the painter. There is no remotely plausible way to interpret the law which would have applied that legislation to a case like this.
Wasn’t in Ireland at the time, but damn the fact this happened is scary. And to think there’s a certain subset of the population nowadays that would fully support this.
Neither side should have this power.
The neoliberal Performative Right have been proven just as bad as the Performative Left at clambering for speech crime laws over the past decade.
Anyone else think we might be completely fucked? These laws are coming in just as there’s a surge in the far-right across Europe.
Labour are doing everything they can do to hand the next election to Reform in the UK, Nigel fucking Farage is going to be able to decide what you need to show your ID to see online over there.
Why act like the general public are any better?
[In 2010, people were losing their rag at women models in a Hunky Dorys ad playing rugby which resulted in the ads being banned.](https://marketing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Hunky-Dorys-Ad-201×300.jpg)
Anyone know where the portraits are now? Id love to go see them.
The whole „gardai barging into Today FM“ bit was really bad. When people talk about gagging the media, this is what they mean.
We may well have been brigaded, but I had many people arguing with me several months ago (maybe a year at this stage?) here in defense of Germany’s behaviour during protests over a year ago now in which police limited protests with speakers demonstrating speaking a language other than German (a translator must be present in order to „verify that it wasn’t hate speech“).
These kinds of actions, abilities or laws, however well-intentioned, will inevitably become political weapons of the state. We must have principled defenses of free speech, otherwise we will fall victim to pathetic proposals such as these.