Comment Dear Feds. (Score 0) 120
Dear Feds. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Right?
Comment Re:But.. but... think of the children! (Score 0) 569
+1. Bono is a tax dodging muppet that doesn't deserve the word "Irish" anywhere near his name. His opinion isn't worth jack, and I and many Irish men and women would be only too delighted for him to feck off to The Netherlands and never return.
Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy 1376
An anonymous reader writes "Another European country clamps down on free speech. From the article: 'It does seem bizarre that, in 2009, a modern European nation would seek to shield religious belief from criticism — yet that is what is happening in Ireland right now. In repealing the 1961 Defamation Act, the Irish government sought to expunge the worst excesses of Ireland's draconian laws restricting free speech, but in the process it has ended up making offending religious belief a criminal offence. Aside from a 25,000 fine (reduced from the 100,000 originally sought by the government), the new Defamation Act gives the authorities the power to stage raids on publishers: the courts may now issue a warrant authorising the police to enter, using "reasonable force," premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of "blasphemous statements."'"
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