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RT @DiarmaidOCon: Basically every week a homeless Irish person dies. No fuss.
But if someone in DP thinks their free meal and roof isn't up to standards, NGOs line up for advocacy. Or our courts rule that a foreigner didn't get enough free stuff. Not a word I use often, but this is sinful. https://twitter.com/DiarmaidOCon/status/1666155091353534475/photo/1
RT @DiarmaidOCon: Basically every week a homeless Irish person dies. No fuss.
But if someone in DP thinks their free meal and roof isn't up to standards, NGOs line up for advocacy. Or our courts rule that a foreigner didn't get enough free stuff. Not a word I use often, but this is sinful. https://twitter.com/DiarmaidOCon/status/1666155091353534475/photo/1
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Tonight on RTÉ's Primetime we learned that 'direct action protests' are a novel concept in Irish society and they involve members of the public entering libraries and pharmacies to ask the staff questions about the products they're supplying.
This was Sarah McInerney's chilling opener:
"It's something we haven't seen before, ordinary people confronted by protesters who accuse them of being personally responsible for things they disagree with." 🤣
No matter what level of spooky background music accompanied their blurred footage, it was always going to feel more like a lost episode of Brass Eye.
Apparently these 'direct actions' are being organised under the cover of 'unregulated' apps like Telegram and now even twitter so something needs to be done about it.
Their immediate reaction was to turn off replies to save themselves some ridicule.
This was Sarah McInerney's chilling opener:
"It's something we haven't seen before, ordinary people confronted by protesters who accuse them of being personally responsible for things they disagree with." 🤣
No matter what level of spooky background music accompanied their blurred footage, it was always going to feel more like a lost episode of Brass Eye.
Apparently these 'direct actions' are being organised under the cover of 'unregulated' apps like Telegram and now even twitter so something needs to be done about it.
Their immediate reaction was to turn off replies to save themselves some ridicule.
Forwarded from Free Speech Ireland
Attention all!
The Hate Speech Bill enters the second stage of The Seanad this coming Tuesday, 13th June.
We will be hosting a Twitter Space at 7pm this evening to discuss the matter:
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpmXkwVZxE
The Hate Speech Bill enters the second stage of The Seanad this coming Tuesday, 13th June.
We will be hosting a Twitter Space at 7pm this evening to discuss the matter:
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJpmXkwVZxE
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At 00:45, RTÉ Primetime assert that Juno Dawson's 'This Book Is Gay' is a "sexually explicit book written for sexually active young adults" but what they don't mention is that 'young adult' is a library and bookshop category accessible by 12 to 17 years olds.
Children's Books Ireland removed the book from their Pride Reading Guide after deciding the book, which lists anal fisting and the consumption of human excrement as valid sexual experiences readers might like to engage in, was perhaps more suitable for children over 15 years old.
So even they, I presume, must think there's obviously some validity to the campaign by @naturalwomenscouncil against it being available to children as young as 12 in some libraries and bookshops.
Libraries Ireland and the Garda say the matter is out of their hands so who else are campaigners supposed to complain to?
At the end of this clip, an RTÉ journalist tells Ross Lahive that the book has been vetted as an educational resource for 12 year olds.
Vetted by who?
Children's Books Ireland removed the book from their Pride Reading Guide after deciding the book, which lists anal fisting and the consumption of human excrement as valid sexual experiences readers might like to engage in, was perhaps more suitable for children over 15 years old.
So even they, I presume, must think there's obviously some validity to the campaign by @naturalwomenscouncil against it being available to children as young as 12 in some libraries and bookshops.
Libraries Ireland and the Garda say the matter is out of their hands so who else are campaigners supposed to complain to?
At the end of this clip, an RTÉ journalist tells Ross Lahive that the book has been vetted as an educational resource for 12 year olds.
Vetted by who?
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Maynooth University's Dr Barry Cannon saying the quiet part out loud in last night's Prime Time:
"We've got to shift the narrative back to where we want to talk about and not allow them to dominate our narratives too, and not to talk on their playing pitch."
He garbled it, but you get the idea.
They know they've lost control of public opinion and the only way they can get it back in the era of social media is through censoring and criminalising their political opponents.
But they can't just admit they're authoritarians and lock their opponents up as they have to maintain their facade of liberalism so instead we get Hate Speech Legislation, Online Safety Regulation and a Disinformation Act which are all vague enough so those in power can select who is guilty of breaching them.
They'll tell you it's all required to protect democracy but just not the kind of democracy where 75% of people oppose bringing in any more so-called refugees.
"We've got to shift the narrative back to where we want to talk about and not allow them to dominate our narratives too, and not to talk on their playing pitch."
He garbled it, but you get the idea.
They know they've lost control of public opinion and the only way they can get it back in the era of social media is through censoring and criminalising their political opponents.
But they can't just admit they're authoritarians and lock their opponents up as they have to maintain their facade of liberalism so instead we get Hate Speech Legislation, Online Safety Regulation and a Disinformation Act which are all vague enough so those in power can select who is guilty of breaching them.
They'll tell you it's all required to protect democracy but just not the kind of democracy where 75% of people oppose bringing in any more so-called refugees.
Just to give you an idea of what's coming down the tracks after the hate speech legislation — these are excerpts from the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022.
It was signed into law by the President in February and is in the process of being implemented.
Here's what it gives the new Media Regulator the authority to demand websites remove:
🔹 Online content by which a person bullies or humiliates another person.
🔹 Online content which could cause a risk of significant harm to a person's mental health.
🔹 Online content which is threatening, abusive or insulting.
🔹 Online content by which a person harasses another.
A committee recommended that 'disinformation' be included as a category of harmful online content but were told this is being addressed through EU legislation.
It was signed into law by the President in February and is in the process of being implemented.
Here's what it gives the new Media Regulator the authority to demand websites remove:
🔹 Online content by which a person bullies or humiliates another person.
🔹 Online content which could cause a risk of significant harm to a person's mental health.
🔹 Online content which is threatening, abusive or insulting.
🔹 Online content by which a person harasses another.
A committee recommended that 'disinformation' be included as a category of harmful online content but were told this is being addressed through EU legislation.
Forwarded from The State of Ireland
This petition is 250 short of the 10k mark. It will be delivered to the President tomorrow. Please please sign and share!
https://www.change.org/p/we-the-people-demand-a-supreme-court-referral-of-the-radical-hate-speech-bill
https://www.change.org/p/we-the-people-demand-a-supreme-court-referral-of-the-radical-hate-speech-bill
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Forwarded from The Irish People (Official)
WeThePeople.ie are proud to announce Stephen Sutton's new song 'Thought Crime'. It is high time that all those great Irish people who took to the streets against the regime had a song written for them. It was a pleasure to work on this project.
Make sure to share this with your friends, and family. Let's get this song out there for everyone to hear!
🇮🇪 ☘️
https://youtu.be/OhninoTDBPA
Make sure to share this with your friends, and family. Let's get this song out there for everyone to hear!
🇮🇪 ☘️
https://youtu.be/OhninoTDBPA
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Thought Crime - Stephen Sutton
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At least five people, including four children were injured with a knife in a park near Lake Annecy in the Alpine region of France at 9:45 this morning.
Le Figaro reports the assailant is believed to be a 32-year-old Syrian male asylum seeker with no police record who submitted his asylum application in November 2022 but had obtained refugee status in Sweden, his request having been refused in France.
Edit: Reports are now naming the assailant as Abdalmasih H. and also say his child victims were around three years old and in kindergarten. Several classes of school children were present in the park on Lake Annecy at the time. A witness told 'France Bleu Pays de Savoie' that the children were “clearly his target”.
“At first we all thought it was a set-up, but when people started screaming, we realized it was real.”
Edit: Eight children and one adult are believed to be have been injured in total.
🔗 lefigaro.fr 🔗 twitter.com 🔗 hln.be
Le Figaro reports the assailant is believed to be a 32-year-old Syrian male asylum seeker with no police record who submitted his asylum application in November 2022 but had obtained refugee status in Sweden, his request having been refused in France.
Edit: Reports are now naming the assailant as Abdalmasih H. and also say his child victims were around three years old and in kindergarten. Several classes of school children were present in the park on Lake Annecy at the time. A witness told 'France Bleu Pays de Savoie' that the children were “clearly his target”.
“At first we all thought it was a set-up, but when people started screaming, we realized it was real.”
Edit: Eight children and one adult are believed to be have been injured in total.
🔗 lefigaro.fr 🔗 twitter.com 🔗 hln.be