This is by far the most insane law to suddenly pop up in Europe! What is really “misinformation”? The Irish government can basically arrest anyone over anything. Just say: I saw the grass in my yard was blue because I spilled some paint on it. Your neighbor can say: I didn’t see your grass being blue, grass is generally green, you are pushing “misinformation”! Government come please arrest my neighbor…… this is literally insane! SO WHAT IF someone says something false?? SO WHAT??
People talk bullshit all the time since the beginning of history but there was never any freaking “government” to come and arrest you and deprive your freedom for talking nonsense…….. maybe we do need anarchy, maybe we do need to end governments and police. Maybe the anarchists are on to something and come to think of it….
If you think about it, the anarchists of today are the people Romans used to call “barbarians” 2000 years ago, yet while it didn’t take long and the Roman civilization fell, the barbarian anarchists survived for many many centuries more gradually morphing into civilizations themselves such as Germany and now we also see the civilization of Germany falling apart so maybe it is better to be barbarian anarchists and live by the law of the jungle! What benefits really come with civilizations if you can’t really even speak freely anymore!?
Why do we need a “government” and a “police”? Why should a handful of people dictate of millions of people how to behave, what to do and what not to do and now more newly…………. WHAT TO SAY AND WHAT NOT TO SAY? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS???
Advocacy group Free Speech Ireland has issued a “civil rights alert” as the country’s authorities are working to introduce the Irish Online Safety Code – that seems to be, at least in part, inspired by the UK’s hugely controversial Online Safety Act.
For example, although at first glance much smaller in scope, one point from the proposal is reminiscent of the Online Safety Act’s “legal but harmful” doctrine – it is punishing online platforms, specifically video ones, for content that “indirectly leads to harm.”
One of the ways such harm would be interpreted is even if a video does not contain content of the kind – comments to it are branded as “hateful.” In other words, it’s a platform liability for third-party content. The regulation would treat it as “indissociable from user-generated videos.”
One of the consequences is absurd – as Free Speech Ireland notes, to protect themselves, video platforms would have to “censor user content that is not even regarded as ‘harmful’ under the Code.”
The rules, if adopted, would be enforced by a regulator known in Irish as Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM, “Media Commission”). Free Speech Ireland explains that CnaM has received the blessing to introduce the regulation both from the Irish government, and the EU. Age verification is also baked into the plans.
The targeted sites, known as Video-Sharing Platform Services (VSPS), include YouTube, X, and Facebook, and this particular regulation is supposed to be enforced only in Ireland.
However, given that many large tech companies have their headquarters for Europe in Dublin, this could eventually complicate the situation and bring the same kind of censorship to the users in the US as well.
Journalist Peter Caddle, who is based in Brussels, is cited as saying that it would “likely be easier to apply EU censorship rules to all users rather than to try to split the user base into EU and non-EU users.”
There is still formal time to influence all this, as the process of introducing the Online Safety Code for video platforms is now in a public consultation stage, with the deadline for submissions being the end of this month.
CnaM explains that after the conclusion of the consultation, the final version of the code will become part of Ireland’s “overall online safety framework, making digital services legally accountable for how they keep people safe online.”
The rules will incorporate the EU Digital Services Act and the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation, with the whole package to be enforced by CnaM.
This constitutes a grave violation of civil rights, basic human rights laws and the right of freedom of speech and expression. Not even in ardent communist states like China you have such laws. You can basically talk about ANYTHING in communist China EXCEPT for criticizing the communist leadership but in Ireland now you basically watch your mouth about ANY topic because ANY topic can be weaponized against you.
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