The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

SecurityPro@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

khannie@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

The law seems well intentioned and I agree with that intent but there is definitely potential for abuse. One thing benevolent governments should assume when drafting legislation is that there will be a government in the future that will try to abuse legislation to hold on to power and word it to prevent that abuse happening.

Still reading through the full text but it is quite broad so that is a legitimate concern.

Edit: The “protection of freedom of expression” part is four lines of nothing.

It’s not clear to me yet if satire is protected. Like is a comic mocking an aspect of religion “hate”?

It’s 40 pages but I will read the whole thing.

Link for anyone interested:

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/105/eng/ver_b/b105b22d.pdf

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The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".