Members of Free Speech Ireland are attending the second Seanad debate on the Hate Speech Bill today.

Best of luck to all Senators speaking in opposition!

Thank you to Russell Brand for hosting a watershed talk last night on the international censorship industrial complex.

All around the world governments are cracking down on Free Speech. Its time we identify the bad actors and fight back.

Another damning reality of the Hate Speech Bill:

"The power to arrest suspected incitement [to hatred] offenders is not to be restricted to members of An Garda Síochána; it is available to anyone."

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Alex Sheridan told Ezra Levant about the anti-free speech bill that would criminalize insults and even the possession of digital assets such as memes or online jokes.

https://rebelne.ws/443bqI3

“Upon such evidence being given, and a warrant granted, the guards can enter your home, search every person there, seize every single electronic device in the house, your phones, your laptops, your tablets, those of your partner, children’s phones, they can take anything, diaries, books, any object at all, and hold them for an indefinite amount of time.”

Sharon Keogan criticising 15 of the Hate Speech Bill, which covers search warrants.

"You have sought to reassure us... I am far from reassured, instead I'm more fearful now than I ever was."

Senator Gerard Craughwell made the case the government has been misleading in their defence of the Hate Speech Bill. Refuting claims made by no one and rubbishing concerns made by the opposition.

This is great news

"It is understood that following the Seanad debate on the Bill last month, a number of government senators requested a meeting with the minister to highlight their concerns about the new law."

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“ As a person who was heavily involved in drafting the human rights and equality sections of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, I am appalled that [the Hate Speech Bill] strikes directly at the ethos of the GFA. ”

https://t.co/GcOnBuIneM

Minister McEntee has resorted to playing with words in an effort to placate the public's concerns about her bill.

While the Minister may assure us that Freedom of Expression is protected, Gardaí, prosecutors and judges operate based on laws, not the promises of their sponsors.

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"If you ask a child what something means and they give you a circular definition back you could probably accept that
[..]
you certainly wouldn't accept it in a law that criminalises people on that circular definition for speaking"

- Peadar Tóibín

This senseless violence occurred right next to Dublin's busiest Garda Station.

With an already overburdened police force, Justice Minister Helen Mc Entee is more focused on legislating for thought crime than tackling violent crime on our streets.

https://t.co/KjKltvVWqb

While the US Embassy warns about safety on our streets, Gardaí brace for speech crime paperwork.

Fine Gael should follow their youth branch in dismissing this bill.

Our spokesperson Sarah Hardiman comments on the cancellation of “Think Local” festival, the authoritarian overreach of the NGO sector and unaccountable activists in Ireland.

Published by Gript media

https://gript.ie/intolerant-ireland-the-cancelling-of-the-think-local-festival/

Ran into Zuby who sends his support for the fight against the “Hate Speech” Bill in Ireland

The youth branch of Fianna Fáil has joined FG's in opposing the Hate Speech Bill.

There is a widespread misrepresentation of younger people as favouring censorship. The 'woke' ones who do are a very loud minority.