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The Brendan O'Neill Show

207: Meghan Murphy: Free to tweet again

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Meghan Murphy, the feminist journalist who was recently freed from ‘Twitter jail’ by Elon Musk, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the tyranny of the ‘pyjama class’ and the fight for free speech.

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0:00.0

I mean, I was excited about the Elon Musk takeover, even before I got back.

0:10.0

I was just thrilled at witnessing the meltdown online.

0:14.4

I was really enjoying the panicking and the flouncing, like, we'll have to start a new

0:19.8

social media platform.

0:20.8

It's like good luck.

0:22.8

Like, we tried that so hard for the past four years.

0:25.8

I mean, so many of these people on Twitter, the blue text, as you called them, you

0:30.9

know, they would be complete unknowns, if not for Twitter.

0:38.2

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill and my special

0:42.8

guest this week, Megan Murphy.

0:44.4

Megan, welcome to the show.

0:45.8

Thank you so much for having me.

0:48.2

It's been a long time since you and I last spoke and I feel like a lot has happened.

0:54.3

Most notably, I think, you're returned to Twitter.

0:57.9

I find this story fascinating from beginning to end and I would like to talk about it for

1:03.4

a little bit.

1:04.4

So you, many listeners will know that you were one of the first feminists to be thrown

1:09.5

off Twitter to be banished from that social media platform for the speech crime of misgendering

1:16.7

someone, ie, you used male pronouns to refer to a male person who fantasises that he's

1:23.1

actually a woman and your case became a bit of a cause celeb amongst certain free speech

1:29.2

activists and particularly amongst feminists who want the right to talk about biological

1:34.0

sex.

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