Musk Warns Ireland Destroying Free Speech Rights
Tech billionaire Elon Musk warned that Ireland’s push to suppress free speech even further could lead to raids and arrests simply for having a meme on your phone.
New “hate speech” laws are being proposed after an alleged attack on women and children by an Algerian immigrant. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, instead of directing his outrage at the crime, is promising new regulations to crack down on free speech.
Varadkar said in the aftermath of the mass stabbing and riots that followed that the country will “modernize our laws against incitement to hatred and hatred in general.”
The prime minister added that the nation’s repressive statutes governing free speech are “not up to date for the social media age.”
Enter Musk, the owner of X, formerly Twitter. He posted on his platform, “Ironically, the Irish PM hates the Irish people.” In another statement he advised that “the people of Ireland should not stand for this!”
The Irish government took a particular interest in the words of immensely popular UFC fighter Conor McGregor.
He is under fire from leftists for his denunciation of the nation’s immigration policies. McGregor blasted “migrant crime” and said that the Irish people “are at war.”
These statements and others posted by the fighter on social media have him in the legal spotlight. McGregor is now under investigation “as part of an inquiry into the dissemination of online hate speech.”
McGregor said he did not condone looting and rioting but at the same time he did “understand frustrations.”
He added, “Believe me I am way more tactical and I have backing. There will be change in Ireland, mark my words.”
The Algerian immigrant suspected in last week’s atrocity was on a list to be deported in 2008. However, that move was rescinded and he instead obtained an Irish passport.
Besides the crackdown on free speech, the far-left Irish government promised a sweeping expansion of the surveillance power of the state. Leaders now talk of deploying AI-powered facial recognition technology to identify those protesting the stabbing of women and children.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee is under fire for her flimsy response to the horrific crime. She pledged to work to make the enhanced surveillance legal to crush the “thugs and criminals” who demonstrated against the horrific attack.
