I see a lot of handwringing by conservatives and progressives on here about how the other “side” is coming for everyone. However my read of the relevant Irish l

I see a lot of handwringing by conservatives and progressives on here about how the other “side” is coming for everyone. However my read of the relevant Irish law is that malicious communications via social networking are controlled and punishable by fines, arrest, forced removal of the posting, and forced apologies, which is a lot different than the standard here in the US. It reads like the police got a complaint that someone was posting threatening hate speech and they went to discuss it with the poster, were told to come back, then the gentleman refused to meet with the police on return. They arrested him to make him answer the questions they had because he otherwise wouldn’t. It does seem to me the law in Ireland allows for this, but the PCC argument is there are more serious crimes going uninvestigated. However I don’t see anything here that doesn’t conform with what I’ve read Irish laws are (which are different than the US, why are people discussing the first amendment here?). Is it a silly use of time? Yeah. Should the local police have done a better job prioritizing? Yeah. Is this the sign of the progressive apocalypse? No. To me this reads as “local police make visibly bad judgement call and ends up as a meme.”