Tag: Censorship
Institute For Strategic Dialogue: Case Study in Media Astroturfing
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue released a report this week detailing their intelligence-gathering on what they call the Irish "far-right". There is nothing new in this document, and it seems more like a compendium of their greatest hits already released...
Students Mobilise Against NUIGSU Deplatforming Proposals
A small mercy existent hitherto on Irish campuses has been the dearth of hate speech regulations. While your garden variety anarcho-communist or trot SU official could foam at the mouth at the activities or even existence of a publication like...
ROXANNE: Ireland’s New Anti-Hate Speech Surveillance Technology
Marketed as a multiplatform analytical tool to evaluate speech and facial patterns in order to create visual mapping for authorities and identity suspects, ROXANNE is a new breed of surveillance technology in the process of development and currently being backed...
Being Easily Offended is a Form of Status-Signaling
There is a common notion among people about how someone being easily offended is an indication that they just can’t control their emotions. While this is true, another dynamic is being overlooked. When someone gets offended about something you said,...
Dave Cullen (Computing Forever) Banned from YouTube
In a dark and precedent-setting week for online censorship, the axe has fallen on yet another dissident Irish Youtuber, this time in the form of Dave Cullen, who had his channel purged Sunday morning from the embattled video hosting site....
Hate Speech Laws in Ireland : How Screwed Are We?
Answer: Fairly, but hold off from purchasing those one way tickets to Budapest just yet. All of this is dependent on the State’s actual ability to prosecute recalcitrants en masse, with the actual legislation unlikely to come until late 2021...
Draconian Hate Speech Laws Coming Soon To Ireland
On the 17th December 2020, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee launched the blueprints for what will become Ireland’s new laws on so-called ‘hate crime’. Under the proposed laws, it will become a crime to speak or write in a way...
BitChute Removes Extremist Content in Partnership With Hope Not Hate
To the shock of many the alt tech platform Bitchute has commenced removing what it deems to be extremist content under the auspices of a report commissioned by the UK anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate. Founded in 2017 as an...
Irish Antifa Project Investigation into Dr. Lucy Michael Censored by Youtube
Audio of activist Dr. Lucy Michael discussing strategy with Burkean writers posing as antifa activists has been censored from Youtube. The audio of the International Organization for Migration affiliated activist was removed after a continuous campaign of harassment made against...
Corruption, Antifa, and Dr. Lucy Michael
Dr. Lucy Michael's audio from the Irish Antifa Project, which investigated Antifa related corruption as it exists across Irish politics is now available on BitChute. Please find the link here Dr Lucy Michael is an academic active in a variety...