The concept of politicians deciding what is true is laughable

Having an opinion that doesn't agree with the establishment isn't hate, it's having an opinion that doesn't agree with the establishment

What's funny is, some of us have been yelling about this being set-up for the last decade, and have been called conspiracy theorists.

The ability to publish and broadcast via internet by ordinary citizens is an existential threat to well entrenched oligarchs worldwide.

Time to ditch the UN who needs them. Unelected busy bodies.

Paul Coleman and the whole of the Alliance Defending Freedom are BEACONS of justice, decency and honour. THANK you for this interview Freddie!

“It’s the same vocabulary, using a different dictionary”…. and it’s happening right under our noses. The Shame Industry’s intimidation inhibits many from calling bullshit on anti-colonialism, systemic racism, gender identity, white misandry, denigration of western values, etc. It is all so Orwellian, and as a 75 year old witnessing the erasure of history from my grandkids schools, it is even more depressing. We’re wasting our time dealing with the fallout of woke, S. J., and identity, and not fixing the things that are actually broken. “There’s no reward for doing the right thing when facing down the howling mob. There’s only the knowledge that our circumvention of calamity prevented them from being swallowed.” Please stay the course and keep at it. More of you (and us) are needed.

So ms venderleyen says “ hate is hate” But it is her that hates me for disagreeing with her. And I don’t need to have to put up with her!

It's headed toward Maoism. Until they are stopped and rolled back, there is no reason for them to stop anywhere by themselves.

Ordered slavery 😯 That sounds outright scary, and wrong!

PLEASE keep up these videos coming and keep up the pressure on anti-disinformation. Great video. Thanks!

Outstanding guest and interview Freddie. Here in Canada we clearly have adopted the international playbook on censorship. Trudeau speaks of this at nearly every opportunity and the list of bills infringing on speech here is mind boggling.

The only chance of stopping this is to vote Reform!

SUMMARISED IN TWO WORDS: Digital Serfdom.

When government agencies use terms like "hate" in their legislation, vague enough to sail oil tankers through, be assured that is exactly what they mean to do.

See the Australian “eSafety Commissioner” 😂

"...strengthen science, public health, and pandemic literacy in the population..." Ya gotta hand it to them, The Ministry of Truth is good at their job.

Just look at what the WEF proposes and who follows diligently (Trudeau, Sunak, Macron, etc.).

One World Government, One World. Religion, One World Health.....Total Censorship....Social Credits....It is all coming together at lightning speed ! Wonder why Right Wing, conservative leaders are becoming more popular !? They actually may save us !

Three words, in fact a book: Brave New World. Groupthink overload.

In the fact Feckers world, the Post Office scandal would never have broken, and neither would the contaminated blood products scandal.

Just wait like 5 yrs, lol. EU is pretty much Germany's regional apparatus, and Germany economically is essentially about to crash and burn.

thank you thank you thank you. 💪 videos like these are fundamental, for our liberties.., and you guys’ are doing a vital service.

Great interview, thank you both!

Does it seem like there is a global pandemic of busybody-ism? I diagnose the problem as coming from a surplus of bureaucrats that are trying to justify their sinecures. When do we go back to giving people like this real jobs? Building roads with cobblestones, constructing beautiful places of worship with elaborate stonework and stained glass windows, or planting trees in public squares would provide value-added employment for these people.

Wow! Freddie, you have been doing incredible work of late, ever since you discovered how Unherd has been subject to some of these forces. Thank you. very much! And please keep it up!

Do you realize that the US woke is no different? I had someone tell me ‘ I have no right to say things’. WTF?

Don't forget that all these bodies are Public Servants. We should refer to them as such. EU Citizens are placed at the top of the hierarchy.

In that case what’s the point of voting in ‘democracies’?

Britain will never get out of this if we don't have energy independence, dont stop regulating independent farmers out of existence (the government is also financially incentivising them not grow food) and also stopping government spending so we can protect our currency, if those things aren't sorted we won't be able to push back or have any leverage to trade without having to abide by UN regulations.

Encouraging critical thinking at school would counter negative impact of social media, being patronised by a small group of people who “protect “ us simply promotes dependence 😢

There was nothing ever wrong with being taught……sticks and stones will break your bones…….BUT names can never harm you! Viva FREEDOM OF. SPEECH.

Good discussion

Brilliant work! Real Journalism! Thanks for exposing this set up!

Truth is regarded as hate speech

Thanks for doing this; we are all at risk, not to speak of the fundamentals of democracy itself!

These bureaucracy structures remind me of the myth of the 9 headed hydra, chopping down one head only leads to another head appearing. The only medicine is to lift it all up to the light and see the beast. Thanks Unheard for doing that. ❤

Good public policy requires good public debate

Just try upholding your freedom of speech here & see where that gets you!

Thanks Freddie

A discussion of how selected governments and judicial institutions deal with law that relies on poorly defined terminology. Intuitively, one would think that a poorly-defined term's meaning would drift as culture evolves.

Thank you gents. You are a truly great interviewer Freddy.

I used to use the internet to actually do serious research. Don't expect to do that today. Search engines now provide the "official" answer to many queries - in other words - they provide search results designed to support the "opinion" that you are supposed to entertain in order to be a good subject in our ever more Orwellian world.

“That was the hate speech movement, is that what it still is?” asks Freddy gently, referring to throwing your racist grandmother in prison for saying something.

A whole 30 minute segment about recent activities aiming at restricting speech, and not a mention of the IHRA definition and the actual law being passed in the US, and being worked on at the EU? It's a perfect example of what this guy is talking about, and it's very topical and current.

Freddie used the phrase 'Incorrect facts', that's an oxymoron

Ursula is as nice of a person as the Disney character.

Great presentation- keep going Unherd 👍

I think the popular support for censorship of hate speech comes from the lack of value to speech that is a personal attack and intended to be provocative in discussions that are about important issues that people care about. There is a confluence of interests between people that want to censor views that they disagree with and people that don't want provocative people in discussions because it devalues the information they are interested in. It is even a good way to censor a person trying to address important issues by provoking tribal arguments around the topic that drown out the constructive arguments being made. It is also in the interest of power to extend it's power by preparing punative measures when a confluence of interest in censorship supports it's interests as well. This is a dangerous pattern for human rights and if we truly believe in a "marketplace of ideas" we need to understand that all speech is not equally valuable even if it is all freely spoken.

I grew up in a socialist country and noticed the same patterns of communication, power struggles, manipulation, censorship,... until the economy crashed und than the war consumed everything.

I like that, he said, hovering up.

I’m aware of it since 2015.

Excellent interview. I appreciate how Freddie throws in questions that put a brake on the overly conspiratorial narrative. I do think that a lot of this stuff, undesirable as it is, is a result of homogenised thinking through social media by those who carry it out, rather than a sinister plot.

And at the beginning of covid I can remember Jahitler Ardern using the words "sustained propaganda" She has done a lot of harm to our country.

50 years of NLP practitioner leadership training, strategic planting of leaders, in a common purpose for global change, has effected the policies inside admin/institutions via NGOs Sustainable development goals, irreversible, binding, monitored in every area of life. Read between the lines, understand in translation. Global governance, the new order of Regions, communites, ex-Nation. It certainly is massive.1940s never ended UNWO?

I was today old, when I learned of Staville and the trilateral commission, sabotaging Corbyns run for PM.

Excellent video and presentation. 2 level-headed people who can see through the evil corruption of global organisations controlling sovereign states.

Government can be the greatest threat to the citizen. Unaccountable bureaucracies crammed with activists are a massive threat to all of us.

Regarding hate speech, a big question is the groups or individuals to whom this applies. Seems that the "hate speech" only applies in one direction.

I can’t find his book ‘Censored’ on Amazon 😂

Thank you!

I'd like to know more about what the actual impact of all these organizations is.

Another issue is the amount of identification that many internet social/information platforms require. In some,maybe many, countries some platforms require a persons phone to sign up. So, there's the overreach of these platforms in accessing personal data and there is the lack anonymity that many would like would in speaking about "challenging(?)" topics. There is a distinct lack of freedom of speech implied. The WEF owned politicians of the global west love the fear and, most importantly, the silence this creates.

Frightening!

Justin trudoh could give a masterclass in mis, dis and mal information, you should get him

Amazing job, thanks

When you no longer control most media channels, you have no salient arguments, and you're losing your monopoly on power, then a sound strategy might be implementing tools that can silence and smear all opposition. The old guard is falling and they are in panic mode. And they won't go down without a fight.

Hate speech is being defined even as refusing to call a girl 'he'......as teacher...or hurting somone's feelings....in which case...we would All have to quit communicating...especially debating or disagreeing !

Talk to Professor Jordan Peterson who will must eloquently tell you why we must never give up our freedom of speech. It is how we think and how we debate and how we find our way through this world!

You have six fingers -Ministry of Truth

So, we are somewhat like our Communist Counterparts aren't we? ...and we are TWICE as sneaky about it too!

Good work! Many thanks

Excellent job❤🍀

This contemporary phenomenon..the trend of democratic leaders who can just turn the knobs at their will...Interesting to say the least..

What would be an example of the UN taking action against an individual who says something naughty, or worse, something MEAN?

People talk a lot about "Chinese system", but do they know what they are talking about?!

We could do what we always do: simply ignore it.

Great job

misinformation/disinformation = political ideas and facts that i don't like

lol they think they're censoring without anyone knowing. But we know and actually information is being exchanged without THEM knowing. 😂

Soft totalitarianism gets harder over time

Great conversation! Concise introduction to a reality I’ve opened my eyes to and been researching since I realised I was an outlier on the C***d debate.

Excellent

I can summarise this; We're all fucked.

This is usefully thought-provoking. It suggests that the real problem isn't just the censorship impulse itself--which arguably has been with us forever--but one of classic mission creep. 'Hate speech' legislation intended to avert another Holocaust is at least intelligible; but when policing discourse gets to the point where we can no longer poke fun at ourselves with ethnic jokes, or similarly satirize the characteristic foibles of men and women, you'd think the phrase 'too much of a good thing' would start to intrude itself into the consciousness of even the most enthusiastic censors. One needs always to be sensible, and have a sense of perspective. If a demented adult stood over a three-year-old and unleashed such a torrent of verbal abuse that the frightened child burst into tears, even a dedicated freedom of expression defender like Mr. Coleman would intervene to put a stop to the performance (so would you, I, and everybody else I know). But how do we get from this to 'protecting' university students from classic works of literature, on the ground that the encounters might make them feel 'unsafe?' This is mission creep on steroids, no? As for so-called 'misinformation,' it's a complete fraud. We say we've been 'misinformed' as a convenient shorthand for saying we've been given information that's inaccurate, incomplete, or in some other way unreliable; but it doesn't follow from this that there's any such thing as misinformation: ontologically, the presumed entities in this category would comprise a null set. Everything that comes to our attention is information; and what we're normally concerned to know about information is whether it's accurate, relevant, useful, etc., questions that can only be settled by empirical investigation. It's exactly such investigation that censors attempt to prevent. 'Misinformation' is a label in censorship's arsenal: it pretends that we already have answers to questions we haven't even been allowed to ask yet. If we want to stop falling for this transparent subterfuge, we should consider abjuring the use of its fraudulent vocabulary. Informational claims come in the form of propositions which can be true or false; but even the false ones are propositions, not mispropositions, and ascertaining their truth value is a right and responsibility that individuals can't ethically delegate to censors, whether official or unofficial. 'Infodemic?' Really? 'Bureaucrats gone mad' would be a more plausible diagnosis of what's currently ailing the information commons.

Freddy, you have just interviewed someone who has outlined the most outrageous of organised conspiracies but you don’ want to call it what it is. That is why one can’t be optimistic. People aren’t big enough to confront what is obvious. Hopefully your audience is more bold. I dare to call it a conspiracy.

Good content

Very important insight into whats going on behind the scene.

There are things I would like to say here, polite and reasonable and compelling things...but alas, I know what happens all too often if I do.

The Orwellian democracy shield 😂

The Eurofascist Union (EU) and the Uprooted Nations (UN).

Are they going to use hate to fight hate?

Also misinformation laws used to censure

George Orwell is alive and well 😔

My late father predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall!

Global Governance is inevitable at some point: * Power always draws more power centrally to itself. * Powers that collaborate will constraint power to themselves more than other powers. * Power designed to govern has the biggest problem in managing the majority of people ie macro scale * Power hence will de formulated at macro scale for macro scale resolutions! There are practical elements: Avoid wars, trade and economic cooperation, Resolve Global Environmental issues that are fundamentally shared. Pivotting the vast majority of the population towards these macro policies is inevitable. The method of doing so will involve deception, regulation, tightening of control over peoples' lives in many many areas that people don't think about. The most egregious expansion of this is indeed into speech then into behaviour and ultimately attempting to manipulate thought. This approach is bound to be taken by these large organizations which is a form of conditioning instead of a form of development and education of people's abilities to think. That's the real fundamental problem with global governance and it leads to its own form of tyranny and problems.

Its on Us the people and say NO to work most work in and for and all within industrie till military till pharma stuff!! Yes to work Peace and Life!

At a broader level, a threat is actually on the rise and most people feel it. Prior to the era of hyperconnected social networks mankind seemed to agree on the symbolic meaning of words. At present, for most people, there's less symbolic concepts people agree on outside their Internet bubble. Words like country, nation, patriotism, even care and love lost their bonding power and we have reasons to fear we might regress to a pre-symbolic cave era where language was used exclusively to give private names to things - a "tree" wasn't a general concept but a particular tree where X the son of Y decided to set the border of the tribe. No wonder the states are worried and people might desire an "undemocratic" intervention to re-establish the order in the symbolic.

When i look at my country in western europe at radio and stuff they keep a lot of stuff that can make politics look very bad out of the limelight. I think by doing that they create the illusion that everything always is fine which puts population in a sort of deep sleep. Interestingly this seems to relate to the woke epedemic going on right now.

Fuck censorship