I wouldn’t mind but cheastys original post was hardly anything even remotely controversial. The far right in Ireland and all over the world were jumping straight on it … open borders etc then it turns out the killer is a common or garden born and bred native Aussie.
Fuckin hell just read the details of that now. If it’s a fairly well known online far righty that could be the death knell for the ‘movement’ here. Worst thing about the rise of it all over the last few years online is how it has emboldened far more teenagers etc to just be openly racist.
Can you give me an example of a few statements that will now be able to be prosecuted that weren’t before? I’m actually genuinely looking for an answer here as I’ve asked this of people on both sides of the debate and haven’t got one single example from either
In fairness, I’m not going to go searching for examples of things that I think are examples of hate speech that would be prosecuted under the new legislation and repost them.
The press release on the department’s website gives you the general gist of it I think. It points out that the laws we currently have are inadequate.