"Donald Trump [Jr] is just one of many prominent people who have come out against this legislation," he said.
"I suppose it's because they're living in countries where there's constitutional protection on free speech."Defamation and incitement are already a crime, intimidation is a crime - so why does the Government want to create new crimes and turn more citizens into criminals?"Mr Mills said he believes this could lead to someone being criminalised just for possessing certain material.
He also said this would see a 'reversal' of normal innocent until proven guilty rules:"You have to prove that you didn't intend to communicate it and you didn't intent to share it"."The reason we're bringing it in is not to criminalise more citizens... but to protect categories of people who live in Ireland, and who we know are subject to all kinds of abuse and targeting by all kinds of groups," he said.
"We know that the legislation's required, and we know that there are people who suffer particular abuse from individuals and groups"."It is quite common, in offences for possession of a particular article, that there is a defence built into the legislation to allow them to show, 'Actually no, it was not possessed for the intention that you think it was'.