Tag: Censorship
What’s Behind the ICCL’s Data Commissioner Offensive?
To the casual observer, the DPC is a sleepy bureaucracy. To the informed, it is the Republic’s regulatory crown jewel—a node of transatlantic leverage that determines not only data flows but, increasingly, the limits of digital sovereignty. As the Trump...
Chat Control Thwarted: The Covert Truth in Ireland’s EU Censorship Wars
Ultimately, Chat Control is not about “protecting children” so much as Brussels establishing a continental surveillance template that weakens US tech dominance, undermines free speech, and creates a model authoritarian regimes from Belarus to Beijing could copy.
The Minister for Algorithms? ENFORCE, Joe O’Brien’s new Hate Speech Unit
O’Brien’s move from party politics to this new enforcement role mirrors a broader shift: as street-level activism loses traction, Ireland’s NGO class is embedding itself inside regulatory frameworks. For the open borders left, the fight is no longer about rallies...
McSweeney’s Great Migration: Anti-Musk Twitter Star Embedded in Ireland’s EU Infrastructure
As discussions rage about European Union censorship of American social media companies, the Institute of International and European Affairs quietly hired Twitter’s former global vice president of public policy Sinéad McSweeney. Fired amidst Elon Musk’s spring cleaning spree, McSweeney failed...
FuJo: America’s Censorship Complex Finds a New Home in Dublin
In retrospect, 2010s was a golden epoch for digital transatlantic relations in Ireland courtesy of Dublin’s launchpad status for Big Tech. The relationship wasn’t just business however, Irish activists , ministers, and civil servants built personal ties with tech giants...
How Musk Could Take Ireland to Task Over Hate Speech Legislation
Twitter’s Fenian Street HQ was a powerful place to be in the mid to late 2010s. The cockpit of the social media giant’s European operations, a generation of activists that came of age during the 2015 Marriage Referendum accrued immense...
Jimmy Carr & Inappropriate British Outrage
The furore that has gripped the English press in recent days over a tasteless joke rightfully invokes ridicule and mockery of the English psyche - the English Government calling for new laws to punish comedians comes at an opportune time;...
Anti-Fragility and the Right: Why the Banning of Imperium Press and Mystery Grove Matters
“I posted this last time we got banned and it's still true: we're so antifragile that liberalism doesn't know what to do about it. Our "network-of-networks" dynamic can reconstruct online scenes very quickly…This is because of something ancient and very...
Kinzen’s Missing Contracts
Shocking is the only word to describe a report by Gript where the Department of Health stated they ‘could not locate the information (on contracts signed with Kinzen) due to the cyber attack’ which had encrypted the HSE and DoH...
Baseless ‘Far-Right’ Witch-hunt Reaches Official Ireland
While the NGO-Media complex has been stirring up bogus claims about the so-called ‘far-right’ in Ireland for years now, the last few days have seen the infection spread to oversight bodies within Official Ireland. Yesterday, the Standards In Public Office...