95 - Andrew Doyle - Why Free Speech Matters

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You can find Andrew’s books here (among other places): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Doyle/e/B001K8AWRC/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 Andrew’s show, Free Speech Nation, can be found here: https://www.gbnews.uk/shows/free-speech-nation For Jonathan Pie (co-written with Tom Walker) see: https://www.youtube.com/user/tomwalker78 Follow Andrew on Twitter: @andrewdoyle_com Further References For more on Marcus Meechan (Count Dankula): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFraBEwucEY Helen Pluckrose’s review of Free Speech and Why It Matters for Areo Magazine: https://areomagazine.com/2021/03/03/defending-the-key-liberal-value-andrew-doyles-free-speech-and-why-it-matters/ Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (2014) Nigel Warburton, Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction (2009) Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018) Jeonmi Park’s interview with Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4 Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999) Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976) Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928) Compton Mackenzie, Extraordinary Women (1928) E. M. Forster, Maurice (1971) Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (2010) https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/how-british-cops-became-the-literal-speech-police (Your host, Iona, on UK hate speech laws) Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars (2018) Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018) Timestamps 9:41 A primer on free speech 14:10–22:42 The new conformity: excerpt from Andrew’s book 22:52 Cancel culture vs. political correctness 24:53 Consequentialist arguments vs. human rights arguments for free speech 27:10 How easily influenced are we by media? 36:20 The influence of postmodern ideas of language as power on the free speech debate 38:45 Homosexuality: a social construct? 49:16 Censorship from the left 55:26 Self-censorship 56:28 Censorship by the Tory government, including social media censorship 01:08:43 Trade offs of free speech. The dangers of restricting freedoms. The Scottish Hate Speech Bill.