0610 Free Speech - a podcast by tbs eFM

Today’s theme: Free Speech


In recent months, there have been issues of free speech in many areas including schools, TV, online, etc. In the US, ABC cancelled the series as a swift response to some late-night racist tweeting by Roseanne Barr, the series’ eponymous main star. Barr had compared African-American woman Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, to an ape. And in the UK, Martin Meechan, often referred to by his YouTuber name Count Dankula, received his sentence for making a joke in a video. We look into the definition of free speech and hate speech and what we can do to protect our rights.


The Conversationalist
with

Professor Peter Paik
- from Yonsei Institute for Humanities


Even in modern states with democracy, expressions that can threaten the safety of the nation and the people are considered unlawful. What is the legal basis and examples of it?
How do you think online communities and social media are changing the debate over free speech?


&
Eric Heinze
- Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, who recently wrote about campus free speech on The Conversation.


Just to get a recap, who are the prominent speakers recently banned from speaking on campuses and why?

I understand this no-platforming is part of “safe space” policies, intended to protect students from views and languages they find offensive, including discrimination. You wrote “the originally innocuous policy has come to signify something altogether more alarming” - can you give us more background of this policy and why you think it became alarming?


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