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Submission on hate speech legislation

The Department of Justice has invited submissions to a review of Ireland’s law against hate speech. It is considering changing the present law so as to make it easier to charge someone with ‘hate‘. The Iona Institute has made a submission of its own to the review and raises concerns that any change to the […] ionainstitute.ie/submission-on

Interesting.

This thread had a few followers-only toots, and I thought the public replies would be orphaned, but apparently not!

Well, I guess one learns something new every day! 🙂

I gave my fediverse talk last night and it went really well! lots of engagement and audience questions.

someone pointed out the analogy of "you know how you can do @technomancy on twitter and @technomancy on github and they mean different things and they don't interoperate? imagine if you could" which seemed like a really intuitive way to explain federation that people readily grasped.

I could only get 7 hours of sleep last night, despite setting my alarm for eight hours...is this bad? Or not?

I know plenty of people who can sleep for eight hours or more.

How are you spending your Saturday? Having fun or working hard? Tell me about your day :mastodance: :mastodon:

@F16VIPER01 I agree with your general points in your (memes? posts? gabs? whispers?) about transgenderism, except when you say "there is no such thing as transgender", or "there is no such thing as a transgender". What do you mean by this?

(Also, if I might add, you could serve to be a little more sympathetic. Neither you nor I agree with the lifestyle, but the least we can do is be loving towards these people. Like these people are definitely suffering dude. Many of them are emotionally and mentally fragile too; shouting at them and talking down to them will not help them at all.)

#SCOTUS found that Hate Speech Is Free Speech - All Speech Is Free Speech, unless it incites, encourages violent acts.

Free means unrestrained. That means there is no right speech, or wrong speech. What you are really saying is you hate how the other person expresses themselves. You hate their ideas. Suck it up #Snowflake, Cause I hate that shit!

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there's a blanket over me and since Sammy won't get under he's on top of it (and me) purring away
Hi, folks! I'm a niu.moe refugee trying out a few instances. This one seems pretty comfy.
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QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
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All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.