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The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful". (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by SecurityPro@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind... Anywhere!

https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09[https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910?t=g8nSn9maY3dX0v76oHa9Cg&s=09](url)

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[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's fucking hilarious how x.com still redirects to twitter.com

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

honestly the lamest and funniest bit.

Perfectly ties the whole thing up in a bow: can't even technically manage a domain name change.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Willing to bet some motherfucker has hardcoded twitter domain on the backend in one (or many) link generation process(es) on the basis "it's not like they're going to change the name" and now it borks occasionally if they use x.com

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

For some reason I'm now thinking about a video game called x.com where you have to fight aliens who have infiltrated and taken over a major social media site and are trying to TAKE OVER THE WORLD Wide Web.
(Actually, that kinda sounds like a sequal to x-bill.)

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

grep

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

of course, switching it back might not be so easy... 😂

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago

Oh god. You've probably hit the nail on the head both directions all the same, how many methods/classes/variables are going to have twitter in the name somewhere. Or random bash scripts that pass an arg to something else from a job scheduler. This shit gives me the heebeejeebees just thinking about it.

[–] Balthazar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh, shit. x.com = twitter, it's not Xcom (the game series) xD | That took me waaay to long to realise lol