Posted on 04/30/2023 10:42:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Elon Musk has condemned forthcoming hate speech laws in one EU country as being a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.
Tech billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that impending hate speech laws in Ireland are a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.
Under the proposed legislation, Irish authorities will be given the power to criminally convict people for a variety of “hate” offences, including the possession of material that could “incite” hatred in others if disseminated.
The proposed law also states that the country’s justice system can simply presume that a person in possession of such “hate” material intends to distribute it if a court deems it reasonable to do so, prompting fear that the proposed law in effect is an attempt by the Irish government to usher in “thought crimes”.
Despite these criticisms being aired during a parliamentary debate earlier this week, Ireland’s progressive government has continued to push through the bill, with it now being only a few steps away from becoming law in the country.
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They plan to end Freedom once and for all in 2030
This is the EU “democracy” for which thousands of Ukrainians have died.
Ukraine would be much better off annexed by Russia, where free speech blooms without any fear of retaliation from the state.
Musk is right, I wonder how he feels about American Hate Speech Laws?
EUkesful Idiots.
Guilty until proven innocent
Better than the USA.
Twitter still sucks and limits people. He should police his own place.
You don’t snap your fingers and revise 300,000,000 lines of code.
The demon in “Nefarious” was laughing at the attorney listing the ways civilization is better with diversity, tolerance, and other woke things. Demon admitted that they (demons) did that. When the attorney mentions hate speech, demon said they didn’t even have to do that; mankind came up with that themselves which proves demons are successful in controlling minds.
See my tagline—Musk is guilty of hate speech!
Yes it is.
Maybe it is news to Musk, but it is not news to many of us.
Must should pull all operations from these countries and then tell them to go to H...
There a long list of people, journalists mostly who tried to criticize Putin and they're all room temperature now.
Right now Elon Musk is doing more for liberty than Donald Trump and Ron Desantis combined. He might be our last hope for free speech world wide.
Sounds insane…..but more true than most care to realize.
Uh, no.
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk
The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data.
It’s been exactly six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising a new era of free speech and independence from political bias. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance — especially in countries such as Turkey and India.
It’s all very confusing.
You are insane if you believe that.
But that must have been sarcasm. Surely it was…
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