Toby Young: "New Law is the Greatest Blow to Free Speech"

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator and is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. - Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:47 Is the FSU Winning? 05:05 Why Toby Started the FSU 07:41 FSU Recent Win: Jeremy Sleath Case 09:03 Elon Musk Twitter Takeover 12:21 Online Safety Bill - Why the Concern? 16:25 The Case For the OSB 20:55 Social Media Regulation Under OSB 25:08 OSB Under Under Johnson and a Conservative Government 33:03 Cyberflashing and Child Protection 35:11 Debate: Legitimate Restrictions On Free Speech 42:38 "Content of Democratic Importance" 47:50 What Can People Do? 50:45 Inevitable Censorship of Online Comedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.0	The critical thing is the government through off-com, the state will be deciding what jokes it thinks you should be able to hear and what jokes you shouldn't.
1:30.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
1:34.0	I'm Constantin Kitchen.
1:35.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
1:40.0	Our brilliant and returning guest today is the general secretary of the free speech union here in the UK.
1:46.0	Toby Young, welcome back to Trigonometry.
1:48.0	Thank you, Constantin. Thank you, Francis.
1:50.0	It's been a while since we had you on the show and look, the free speech union has been doing incredible work.
1:55.0	Only a few days ago one of our interns came in who does a bit of reading and research for us.
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