#283 - Andrew Doyle - Free Speech And Why It Matters

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, a comedian and a writer.

Free speech is one of the core tenants of a modern liberal society, and yet we are seeing restrictions being placed on it across the West. In the UK Hate Speech Laws have been introduced and even America is looking at amending the amendment.

Expect to learn what Andrew thinks about Donald Trump being removed from Twitter, whether cancel culture exists, why Miley Cyrus' genital preference is dangerous, what future humans will think when they look back on this period of history and much more...

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0:00.0	Oh, hello friends in podcastland. Welcome back. My guest today is Andrew Doyle, the man behind the
0:06.4	Titanyu McGrath Twitter account, a comedian and a writer. We're talking about his new book,
0:11.0	Free Speech and Why It Matters. Free speech is one of the core tenets of a modern liberal
0:16.1	society, and yet we're seeing restrictions being placed on it across the West. In the UK,
0:20.3	hate speech laws have been introduced, and even America is looking at amending the amendment.
0:25.2	So today, I expect to learn what Andrew thinks about Donald Trump being removed from Twitter,
0:29.6	whether cancel culture exists, why Miley Cyrus' genital preference is dangerous, what future
0:35.9	humans will think when they look back on this period of history, and much more. I always love having
0:41.6	Andrew on the show. He speaks an awful lot of sense, and if you enjoyed this, then I highly
0:45.2	recommend that you go and pick up his book. It's a really easy, very accessible read. It's super
0:50.0	short. I finished it in like a couple of days, and if you like the things that Andrew does on the
0:55.7	internet, you will love his new book. Also, other news. I made some promises around saying,
1:02.3	I'll do a 100k subscriber, ask me anything Q&A on YouTube and live streams, and we'll start
1:08.7	these solo episodes and all this sort of stuff. What happened was a couple of videos that we made
1:15.5	about a week and a half, two weeks ago, exploded the channel, and we went from under 100 to 120,000
1:22.6	subs. The balloons that had ordered to arrive so that we could do like this really cool picture and
1:29.2	have a backdrop for the episode. They're still not even here. They haven't arrived yet, and we're now
1:34.4	about to be closer to 150 than we are to 100. I don't really know how I'm going to play this, but
1:40.8	thank you for the support and thank you for the patience as well. There will be a lot of new
1:44.9	things coming. There will be these solo episodes, there will be Q&A's, there will be more stuff, but
1:49.2	being honest, I would just kind of try and keep up with the workload of publishing a ton of videos
1:54.1	to take advantage of this momentum. Apparently when the algorithm on YouTube likes you, the goal is
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