Ireland’s justice minister Simon Harris on Friday hit out at Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr., who have said the country’s new hate crime bill is “insane” and a “massive attack on freedom of speech.”
Harris said the bill was passed through the lower house of Parliament with the support of all main parties, and that critics are “trying to overstate things for whatever reason.”
The bill is “not about stopping freedom of expression,” the minister said.
“Whenever you see Donald Trump Jr, the Trump family, and Elon Musk oppose your legislation and then you see Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Greens, Sinn Féin, Labour coming together to vote in favour of something? You know, there’s no conspiracy here,” he added….