Lately, when we hear about free speech, it's usually stuff like this.

These companies went on a rampage, de-platforming conservatives beginning with,

at the time, the setting president of the United States.

But there is an actual free speech threat happening right now,

and it's not about people being able to spread lies or insults with no consequences.

I'm talking about the way governments all over the world

are suppressing environmental protests.

Are you telling the dogs to bite the protesters?

The dog has blood and it's nose and it's mouth.

You can see the activists from just a world have just been dragged away by police very quickly

bundled into the van.

This isn't new. Any time environmental activists have succeeded, there's backlash.

And sometimes it's violent.

In many parts of the world, the assassination of environmental activists,

journalists, and lawyers has been far too common for far too long.

In these struggles, many people were assassinated.

Many people were wounded amongst them, my mother,

but the case that is she was murdered in 2016.

I guess I really didn't understand what he was up against until the actual night that he was killed.

Still, what we're seeing now feels new.

Nowhere is safe, no one is safe, even in countries like the United States,

which has the broadest free speech protections in the world.

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