By your standard, every single country that is not the US is authoritarian, because no other country is extremist in their interpretation of what freedom of speech means.
I want people to have freedom to criticize the government and question those in power. I don't want people to have the freedom to say that blacks or jews are subhuman, because the results of that freedom are not good.
Yes, because it is the topic of this thread. It's about Ireland implementing the EU directives on hate speech, such as Holocaust denial.
> and yet even with that freedom to say racist things, so many non-whites are trying to move INTO the United States
We are taking about Ireland and the EU.
I have no idea why people want to move to the US. More power to them, not my problem.
> Your limits on free speech are a slippery slope. Yes most of the world is authoritarian. I experienced it during the pandemic in a so called First World country.
Ah... I see the problem now. You are one of those people.
I won't reply to you any further. Feel free to have the last word. This conversation will never get anywhere.
Thankfully I don't live in the US. No such cancer here.
> Authoritarian control of the narrative. North Korean style.
Nice false dichotomy there.