I don’t believe in covering Europe if it can possibly be helped, but this one from Ireland is part of a much broader trend throughout the English-speaking internet, and as we’ve seen for years, now, he who regulates abroad tends to shape the world. Such is the price of your cheap junk in our highly-interconnected global economy. Now, Irish politicians are attempting to ban ‘bad’ memes, a very evil, stupid thing that will absolutely happen, eventually — in some Frankensteinian form — here at home (it will definitely be California).

Last week, amidst rising tension over the destabilizing impact of mass immigration throughout the Western World, an Algerian man knifed a bunch of kids in Dublin, and the city lost its mind. In response, the Irish government determined their problem was not the wildly destabilizing impact of their own immigration policy (as bad as ours, if with a population even less interested in assimilating), but the ability of men and women to criticize the government’s immigration policy on the internet.

“All legislation is about the restriction of freedom,” said Irish Senator O’Reilly. “If your views on other people’s identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they can not live in peace, then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good.”