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'Bizarre' in what way? Are you alleging the hate-speech laws mentioned aren't real?

Hate speech law can be real without any of the interpretation or spin put on it by the threat being real. I’m canadian. Canada has hate speech laws, and has for a long time. The stuff that gets charged under that law is almost always genocidal garbage. A few cases of less extreme (but still pretty extreme) content have been tried and tossed out. Idk if the irish law goes further, but this thread isn’t a reliable gauge of how this law fits into the irish legal system

> Idk if the irish law goes further

Had you read the thread you would know that it does. It contains excerpts from the law, showing that mere possession of material that is "likely to incite hatred" is illegal. That's an incredibly broad definition. Does an article alleging there are many Jews in Biden's cabinet [1] qualify? Or a book alleging white people are racist and fragile [2]?

[1] https://forward.com/news/462330/enough-for-a-minyan-a-jewish...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility

I mean I’d say no on both accounts. Are you so familiar with the irish legal system that you’re confidant both of these would be made illegal by the law as written? I’m not. Both of those things are not getting charged under the canadian system and i’m pretty sure the wording of our law isn’t too far different from the proposed irish law.

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