Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

Very concerning but hardly surprising development in Ireland these days.

Imo it's further evidence of how unbridled our govt/judiciary would be if the full extent of hate speech bill was passed.

Is there a tl;dr of this where I don't have to watch a gript video?

@nullzero Thanks for going more deeper with the tl;dr than I did!

Without having to watch the video, the above goes into more detail on it.

I think this issue was raised in the Virgin Media Tonight show earlier?

Edit: - I heard correctly found the clip segment on 'X'.

From my understanding this is a breach of powers and using the law wrong?

• attack on the right to privacy and the right of a free press to operate within the Republic of Ireland.

A deeply worrying but hardly surprising story. Its bad enough that the state would go after the data in the first place, the worst part is that they don't even inform the user they are doing so. Only for the fact X fought the case, Gript might never have known. Equally, while it's great X said no, would Meta have our backs like X did.

People don't realise how much over reach the state has in our lIves these days, and it will only get worse if elements of hate speech Bill get passed through.

Equally, the left or Gripts detractors making hay from this news are threading a risky path, because the state won't always be on your side.

Say if you were at a protest, whether it was for Gaza, anti water charges or anti austerity protest. There are 10,000s at the protest, but in the course of the protest there way a crime committed, but not commited by you or witnessed by you. How would you react, that unbeknownst to you, the Gardai tried to access you phone data, your messages, who your contacts were, your ip address and other private .

Now, add in the fact you're a journalist, who may have various sources that you have built up trust with, and further add to that, you're a journalist who has been critical of the state in the past.

Can you not see the issues here? The gardai went on a fishing expedition, unsure what they were looking for, just hoping to get something.

This goes far deeper than Gript, it now transpires that the state have gone after minimum 10 X accounts that have been critical of the state and their handling of various social issues over the last year.

Again this isn't about the gardai looking for one incident or one tweet, it's about accessing all the data X had on the users.

We live in Orwellian times.

Its not a conspiracy, they went after 10 accounts, and those that have come forward so far, are accounts that have been critical of the government.

https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1891939298577891553

The people who maintain Jim O’Callaghan social accounts should have made him, aware of this issue!

It has been reported that he was tagged allot yesterday on the subject.

One example of it from as early as 10am that I have seen. As I said there is a clip of the program on 'X' @TonightVMTV

Tried to find the time stamps on virgin media player but was getting swamped with adds, when attempting to do that.

Edit: - Checked on the virgin box player and the segment starts around the 15 minutes mark.

Was he actually aware of it, but used it as an excuse not to have to give informative answers on it?

Could Gript be the canary in the coal mine but antipathy towards the site means the message of the article is lost ?

I think anyone who's incapable of separating their lack of political alignment with a journalistic endavour, and it being the target of police over reach and draconian surveillance, is noise.

Of course I'm speaking generally and not regards anyone in particular.