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by fallingknife 921 days ago
You can have a government that can punish you for saying things it doesn't like, or you can have freedom of speech. And here is your own high court proving that you don't https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/calling-muhammad-paedo...
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RandomLensman 921 days ago
This is not the government wanting things, but a societal thing. These laws would not be particular difficult to remove if enough people wanted that. Germany removed something around insulting heads of states in 2017, for example.
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ExoticPearTree 921 days ago
It is discouraging that the ECHR thinks you should not call a religious figure a pedophile. How is it right to tell people what to think?
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