Current Affairs Free Speech

[Lord Buckethead]

Is it under threat?
I hear those nasty Leftie snowflakes want it abolished to save them hearing the truth and are cancelling people like that nice Mr Mumford chap, whose only crime is playing the Banjo.
Then again
The Right have the Press and the Media sealed up and if you disagree with their narrative then you are "cancelled".

Who is coming after my free speech? and why?

Does "Free Speech" even exist?

 

[Amw79]

Is it under threat?
I hear those nasty Leftie snowflakes want it abolished to save them hearing the truth and are cancelling people like that nice Mr Mumford chap, whose only crime is playing the Banjo.
Then again
The Right have the Press and the Media sealed up and if you disagree with their narrative then you are "cancelled".

Who is coming after my free speech? and why?

Defo under attack. I saw Piers Morgan yesterday telling a group of assembled reporters all about it as it broadcast live across the western world.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Defo under attack. I saw Piers Morgan yesterday telling a group of assembled reporters all about it as it broadcast live across the western world.

I heard he had "broken his silence on the matter" after less than a day.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Free speech is always under threat when right leaning populist governments are in power, this is no different.

 

[Amw79]

I heard he had "broken his silence on the matter" after less than a day.

Ha ha. I saw that. He managed to wait nearly 24 hours between national broadcasts of his opinions. The quickest cancelling of all time.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Free speech is always under threat when right leaning populist governments are in power, this is no different.

But isn't "Cancel Culture" the thing silencing the common man?

If it's not then I am being SERIOUSLY lied to by the 5 Billionaies who own 80% of the UK's media.

 

[tsubaki]

It’s under attack, but from news corporations and political leaders more than anyone else.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Free speech technically doesn't exist in the UK but is free speech even a good thing?

Most of the people complaining about free speech are people who want to speak hatred.

 

[Blue 1]

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[Kurt.]

Is it under threat?
I hear those nasty Leftie snowflakes want it abolished to save them hearing the truth and are cancelling people like that nice Mr Mumford chap, whose only crime is playing the Banjo.
Then again
The Right have the Press and the Media sealed up and if you disagree with their narrative then you are "cancelled".

Who is coming after my free speech? and why?

Does "Free Speech" even exist?

Shut up

 

[PaddyJames]

"woke" "cancel culture" are just terms invented by the right wing press to stop people taking offence to their racist/sexist/evil views. Its all a tag-line to deflect from their own misgivings. They are absolute hypocrites who are the perfect example of "can give it out but won't take it"

Look at the outcry about Meghan and Harry giving an interview and having their right of reply to years of false stories and press hounding. "how dare they" "scum" "traitors" "liars"

It's rank hypocrisy.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

The perpetually offended and cancel culture we live in is dictating the society we live in is increasingly seeking to revoke platforms/speech of people who we disagree with.

I think Rowan Atkinson is pretty accurate with his view.

 

[Tubey]

People increasingly can't handle being challenged in their views, across the political spectrum.

"Cancelling" isn't about stopping other views, it's about marginalising them to the point they aren't tolerated. So you have safe spaces on both sides that become more and more toxic to any form of dissent.

So is free speech under threat? Not quite, because everyone still has the ability to say what they want. The threat is that people are increasingly only allowed to say what they want on very specific platforms based on what I'd call 'a social editorial direction'.

This creates extremism. In the past, people disagreed but they debated and generally accepted if they won or lost the argument. We don't do that anymore - there's no debate, no shades of grey, everything is black and white, right or wrong, and people are willing to die on their own collective hills for their cause, all the time, reason be damned.

And it is extraordinarily dangerous.

 

[Tubey]

The perpetually offended and cancel culture we live in is dictating the society we live in is increasingly seeking to revoke platforms/speech of people who we disagree with.

I think Rowan Atkinson is pretty accurate with his view.

He's spot on, again. If people offend you, reason back, argue why what they said is offensive, suggest the alternative view with evidence. Win a debate.

That simply doesn't happen anymore. Instead, it's cancel, get rid, deplatform, get them sacked, grab the pitchforks.

It's amazing people pretend this doesn't happen and is a myth. It blatantly does - countless examples.

 

[PaddyJames]

It works both ways.