We just got slashdotted over defamation laws..aka we are a laughing stock

Supercell

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1550224/Ireland-Criminalizes-Blasphemy

Someone remind me what fugging century this is and why fudgepacking aholes in power think this legislation is relevant and more important than the fúcking economy that [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] [blasphemer!!] the real world has to live in and deal with?
Fianna Fudgepackers, I cannot wait to give my vote to AN.OTHER

TheInquisitor

Screw god

Rented Mule

You think we're the laughing stock because of one law ?

Come on people....we're not paying attention......again.

4zn76tysfajdxp

TheInquisitor wrote: »

Screw god

That's hardly something I would expect "TheInquisitor" to say.

AlmightyCushion

It's illegal to do a lot of things in this and many other countries, it doesn't mean you'll get throw in front of a judge for it. Copying music to your ipod is illegal, I haven't heard of anyone getting jailed for that. Stupid law none the less.

That_Guy

TheInquisitor wrote: »

Screw god

There's always a queue.

ihadu

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It's illegal to do a lot of things in this and many other countries, it doesn't mean you'll get throw in front of a judge for it. Copying music to your ipod is illegal, I haven't heard of anyone getting jailed for that. Stupid law none the less.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/5172550/Landmark-piracy-case-sees-Swedish-four-jailed-for-a-year.html

i know theyre not in jail...

Wertz

We've always been a laughing stock...except for that brief 2-3 yrs when everyone was jealous and wondering where we got all that money from...and now we're an even bigger laughing stock. This bullsh*t just adds to the hilarity...

AlmightyCushion

ihadu wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/5172550/Landmark-piracy-case-sees-Swedish-four-jailed-for-a-year.html

i know theyre not in jail...

That's a bit different to buying a cd and ripping it to an mp3 player you own which is technically illegal here.

Poor Uncle Tom

Serves us right for getting up off our knees in the first place. How dare we think we're equal to the challenge of knowing what's right for us. We should be despised for thinking we could abandon the yoke of religeous dominence in just one generation. The heavens will quake with dissaproval at our lack of devine reverence.* If we're not careful we could do the priests,and bishops out of a job. This will probably lead to a self fullfiling prophesy of armageddon. We're doomed, doomed, DOOMED, I tells ya.

*sneaks off into a dark corner with the leaded flail for a good bout of self penetant mutilation.

Fratton Fred

What if they're right though. When you find out for certain, it will be too late.

ihadu

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

That's a bit different to buying a cd and ripping it to an mp3 player you own which is technically illegal here.

youre right i jumped the gun, i retract it.

Overheal

God gets gay with Xenu

/waits for Police raid on Digiweb server farm.

My name is URL

Well the only remedy now is to get on that awful Twitter and basically bribe basement dwellers to go to /. by promising their ****ty blog a few pageviews in exchange for them rating a couple of pro-irish fcukdash comments as 'insightful'

Archeron

Can I now call myself God and have people fined if they laugh at me???

Cool......

Biggins

I'm glad this law was brought in.
I'm hoping that more will come like it.
I hope they completely ban cigs.
I hoping they completely ban speaking out against Fianna Fail.
I hope the gov' bring in a law that says we cannot defend ourselves in any circumstances.
I'm hoping all rock concerts are banned from playing after 9 o'clock.
I'm hoping all women have to dress like arabs.
I'm hoping that all men are not allowed to be seen in the company of women unless they are married to them.

I'm hoping half of the above might come true - if only to force the public to FINALLY get off their lazy asses and start protesting for ****s sake against the government and their consistent stupidity!

Linku

Something being written about on Slashdot isn't what being 'slashdotted' means.

Poor Uncle Tom

Biggins wrote: »

I'm glad this law was brought in.
I'm hoping that more will come like it.
I hope they completely ban cigs.
I hoping they completely ban speaking out against Fianna Fail.
I hope the gov' bring in a law that says we cannot defend ourselves in any circumstances.
I'm hoping all rock concerts are banned from playing after 9 o'clock.
I'm hoping all women have to dress like arabs.
I'm hoping that all men are not allowed to be seen in the company of women unless they are married to them.

I'm hoping half of the above might come true - if only to force the public to FINALLY get off their lazy asses and start protesting for ****s sake against the government and their consistent stupidity!

Oh, you mean transport us back to the 1950's and take the fags off us..

galwayrush

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Oh, you mean transport us back to the 1950's and take the fags off us..

I think the Government have done a good job on that already.

Biggins

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Oh, you mean transport us back to the 1950's and take the fags off us..

Self-edited - Calmed down a bit.

BaconZombie

/. is always a month behind everyone else:

It hit Reddit ages ago:

Reddit.com wrote:

Who asked for Ireland's blasphemy law? New rules which forbid causing 'outrage' among religious people have baffled Ireland. We were getting along just fine without them

Irish blasphemy law is not sinister new law, but an amendment to an unenforceable old one to make it even less viable.

Fremen

My name is URL wrote: »

Well the only remedy now is to get on that awful Twitter and basically bribe basement dwellers to go to /. by promising their ****ty blog a few pageviews in exchange for them rating a couple of pro-irish fcukdash comments as 'insightful'

I have modpoints. I'll mod you up if you goatse yourself.

Capt'n Midnight

That_Guy wrote: »

There's always a queue.

Is Mary's go still ?

Darragh29

Jesus Christ sucked cock.... Come and arrest me Ahern you muddafupper! :D:D

Poor Uncle Tom

Darragh29 wrote: »

Jesus Christ sucked cock.... Come and arrest me Ahern you muddafupper! :D:D

If there really is an afterlife, you've some interesting times ahead..:D

Darragh29

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

If there really is an afterlife, you've some interesting times ahead..:D

I don't really mean it! I think JC will get the joke, sure the saviour himself is probably laughing down at this legislation!

Santa Claus

It starts with being illegal to slag off Scientology and next thing you know its illegal to give bad reviews to tom cruises / Will Smith / John Travolta movies....it's a slippery slope folks !!!

Fremen

Santa Claus wrote: »

It starts with being illegal to slag off Scientology and next thing you know its illegal to give bad reviews to tom cruises / Will Smith / John Travolta movies....it's a slippery slope folks !!!

Nah, scientology isn't a religion in Ireland.

Hubbard can toss my salad!

BrokenArrows

Are you kidding me. it is actually illegal now to criticise the church.

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’.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7171/

TheInquisitor

Tis a load of BOLLIX

galwayrush

Mission almost accomplished by our Government, almost there now, all we need now is the maidens dancing at the crossroads and we're back to the 50's

dsmythy

You're a bit slow on the uptake. Check out the various other threads on this.

Dartz

Jehovah Sucked Minsterial Cock in Lebellous Blasphemy shocker!

BrokenArrows

dsmythy wrote: »

You're a bit slow on the uptake. Check out the various other threads on this.

no you're a bit slow on the uptake!!

mature i know

Tyler MacDurden

TheInquisitor wrote: »

Thumb-Screws for god

That's more like it.

pisslips

There's only one way to fight this.

Ahem.....*clears throat*:

Jesus was a peadophile.

The lesser of two evils IMO.

The guy

Esme Grumpy Fishnet wrote: »

That's hardly something I would expect "TheInquisitor" to say.

That's because nobody expects TheInquisitor :P

Jesus Juice

Jesus sucks balls.
Thats is all.

Biggins

Dartz wrote: »

Jehovah Sucked Minsterial Cock in Lebellous Blasphemy shocker!

Can't wait to see that on the front page of The Irish Times. :pac:

Jesus Juice

Jesus Juice wrote: »

Jesus Juice sucks balls.
Thats is all.

FYP.

(Before anyone else does it :pac:)

CrazyRabbit

The really embarrasing bit is that the Irish people will just sit back and take it. We are lazy about protecting our civil rights.

Capt'n Midnight

Jesus Juice wrote: »

Jesus Juice sucks balls.
Thats is all.
FYP.

(Before anyone else does it :pac:)

Be careful no one hears you say that

Jesus' Jews sucks balls.
Jesus, Jews sucks balls.
Jesus! Jews sucks balls.

Duggy747

Who exactly proposed this law in the first place? This kinda shìt makes everyone look bad, no matter who it's supposed to "protect". The people who think it's a good idea or just handier to pass it through to shut a tiny minority up should be shot. Spineless bastards.

Oh, and God loves rimming Satan while Jesus cracks one out.