210: Toby Young: Why the censors must not win

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Toby Young – founder and director of the Free Speech Union – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this special live podcast. Toby and Brendan took a look back on a year of state censorship, mob cancellation and digital unpersoning. Plus, they took questions from the audience.

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1:21.2	Hello, everyone. Welcome to this very special live recording of my podcast, The Brendan O'Neil Show.
1:27.8	With me, Brendan O'Neil and my very special guest, Toby Young. Toby, welcome to the show.
1:33.5	Thank you very much. Glad to be here, Brendan.
1:35.2	So Toby, I want to talk to you about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is an issue that is
1:40.1	very close to spiked heart. It's probably our most important theme. It has been for around 20 years now.
1:46.8	I know it's close to your heart as well. Everyone knows that through the work you've been doing
1:50.6	with the free speech union over the past couple of years. And the campaigns that you have taken up
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