311: Jonathan Turley: Free speech in an age of rage

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jonathan Turley – a legal expert who testified at the impeachments of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump – joined this week’s episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his new book, The Indispensable Right. Jonathan and Brendan discuss the assault on the First Amendment, the historical roots of the ‘misinformation’ panic, and why free expression is at the essence of what it means to be human.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Brendan here. Before we get into this week's episode, I just wanted to let you know about our next online event, the last one of the year.
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1:26.0	wait to see you all on Wednesday, the 18th of December at 7 p.m.
1:34.1	If you take a look at Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, you can see what happens
1:39.8	when you allow for censorship to take hold. It becomes this insatiable appetite.
1:45.0	If you're censoring this group, well, how about that group?
1:47.5	How about if you're saying this is a grotesque or offensive concept?
1:52.5	How about this concept that I find offensive?
1:55.0	And so politicians pile on and the scope of the censorship grows.
1:59.7	That's always been the lesson of history.
2:02.4	One of the things the book raises is name a single censorship system in history that has
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