The End of Free Speech In Europe (And why everyone should be concerned…)
The Winston Marshall Show
Winston Marshall
4.8 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This is my recent speech from Lugano Plan ₿ Forum where I discussed the escalating free speech crisis across Europe. I explore how Switzerland’s famed neutrality is challenged by new authoritarian trends, exemplified by the prosecution of Emmanuel Brunischolz for a social media post, and draw parallels with Germany’s raids on online speech, French digital censorship, and Britain’s growing crackdown on jokes, memes, and even silent prayer. I also delve into historical precedents of European censorship, from blasphemy laws to the Inquisition, and highlight why Bitcoin and cryptography represent crucial new frontiers in the ongoing fight for liberty. Whether you care about digital rights, liberty, or decentralisation, this talk underscores the urgent need to protect every remaining territory of freedom in the face of modern censorship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. So I've been asked to talk about free speech, which is fitting for a Bitcoin |
| 0:07.8 | conference because if Bitcoin represents anything, it represents freedom, it represents liberty, |
| 0:13.8 | and if you bought at $125,000 earlier this month, it represents suffering. I might note that the last time I spoke at |
| 0:23.1 | a Bitcoin conference, I was mercilessly heckled. I quickly learned that Bitcoin maximalists |
| 0:29.7 | have no problem exercising free speech when cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin are discussed. |
| 0:37.1 | So I will not be discussing other cryptocurrencies tonight, |
| 0:40.3 | especially not PooCoin. |
| 0:43.3 | We are in Switzerland, a country famous not just for its abundance of watches, |
| 0:50.3 | delicious chocolate and useful if silly knives, but perhaps most of all, and certainly in the mind of us |
| 0:58.1 | British, their unerring commitment to neutrality. |
| 1:02.7 | For the Swiss, neutrality is a fence to die on. |
| 1:08.0 | But in 2025, in the emergence of a new authoritarianism, the Swiss are no longer neutral |
| 1:15.6 | bystanders. |
| 1:16.6 | The Swiss have decided to make a stand the Swiss have come out on the side of the authoritarian. |
| 1:23.6 | In December, Immanuel Brunischols, a wind instrument repairman from Bergdorf just up the road, |
| 1:33.3 | will begin a 10-day stint in a Swiss prison. |
| 1:37.3 | His crime? |
| 1:40.3 | Posting on Facebook the scientific truth that skeletons cannot be transgender. |
| 1:47.0 | In December 22, replying to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council Member Andreas Glana, |
| 1:58.0 | Brunisholz wrote, and I quote, If you dig up LGBTI people after 200 years, |
| 2:06.6 | you'll only find men and women based on their skeletons. |
| 2:10.6 | Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum. |
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