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IT Law in Ireland
Personal blog · tjmcintyre.compoliticssecurity
IT Law in Ireland is a personal blog at tjmcintyre.com about politics and security. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Ireland's SOPA: A FAQ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom McIntyre's IT Law in Ireland blog, mainly its FAQ on Ireland's SOPA-style copyright proposal. It was shared while the change was being debated in early 2012.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Information Technology law issues with a focus on fundamental rights.
Most-linked posts?
- Ireland's SOPA: A FAQ3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-23
What Hacker News says?
As others have said, a large part of the problem is that the legislative change is not made public, and debated; instead the change to the existing law can be made by ministerial order - so there's no definitive text to link to, at the moment. This FAQ: http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html written by someone who is a university law lecturer, and solicitor, is about as good as you are going to fin…
Comment linking /2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html
on “Say No to Ireland's SOPA”Submitted Site Blocking: What the UK Government would prefer you not to see as a story · 19 points
HN discussionwe're getting sopa in ireland in the next few days. kinda slipped out yesterday and is trending on twitter in ireland at the mo. http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html so for any irish folk who frequent hackernews; http://stopsopaireland.com/
Comment linking /2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html
on “After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"”Submitted Ireland to enact SOPA-like legislation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ireland's SOPA: A FAQ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Irish newspapers have some curious views about search engines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hillsborough: using police databases to smear the dead as a story · 1 points
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