ICYMI - Jimmy Kimmel & The Death Of Free Speech Online
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Spitfire News writer Kat Tenbarge to discuss how reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death are prompting us to reexamine free speech. In her piece, “Is anyone going to defend free speech online?” she explains how this right has long been under threat. From legal challenges to biased algorithms, the internet is being censored right before our eyes—but there are still ways we can fight back.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candace Lim. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Kate Lindsay. |
| 0:16.7 | And you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.6 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.5 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.6 | And I can't believe I'm asking you this. |
| 0:24.6 | I never thought there'd be a day where I'd start an episode asking you this. |
| 0:27.6 | But did you catch Jimmy Kimmel's recent monologue? |
| 0:31.6 | Who's that? |
| 0:32.6 | Just kidding. |
| 0:33.6 | Just kidding. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, I did not watch Jimmy Kimmel's broadcast live, nor did I watch it on a TV screen, but did I watch it on my phone on YouTube. |
| 0:46.5 | Absolutely I did. |
| 0:53.6 | This is a real sign of the times of like that things are not as they should be when I'm like opening up YouTube and typing in Jimmy Kimmel monologue. |
| 1:02.1 | Like I, then this is no shade to the man. I just can't think of a time in my life when I've needed to see a monologue of his so badly that I seek it out. |
| 1:11.1 | But I was, of course, very interested to see what he would have to say upon his return |
| 1:16.1 | to TV after being taken down, after comments he made about Charlie Kirk's death. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah. And I think a lot of people were waiting with bated breath to see what he would say now that he's back on the air. |
| 1:27.1 | I would love to play a clip that just kind of evokes the tone that he came into this with. I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human. And that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. And that's a very emotional clip and it's very serious. but the only thing I can think of when I hear it and when I listen to the whole monologue is like, what if me in 2024 was beamed this clip? |
| 1:51.9 | I would have no idea what happened. |
| 1:54.2 | Like it's like it's not that this would kill a Victorian child. |
| 1:57.0 | This would kill me. |
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