In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand's new podcast, "No, Here's the Fucking News," Russell Brand takes a deep dive into the current state of public opinion in Ireland, and asks the question, why the fuck did the government bother to hold a public consultation on hate speech? And why did they ignore the results of the polling on the matter? And what's the point of holding a poll if the result is just going to be disregarded on the basis of the fact that it's not representative of the public's point of view? Is that even a thing? And if it is, who's to blame? And how can we stop it from happening in the first place? - Russell Brand Stay Free with Russell Brand is a stand-up comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and the New Republic, and is one of the most influential people in the alt-right in the world. He's also a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast, The Rebel, and The Daily Caller. , and has been featured in The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and many other publications. He's a frequent guest on the BBC, and hosts a podcast called "Keep Calm and Carry On" on Radio Free, where he also hosts a show called "The Dark Side Of" where he gives us the inside scoop on current events and exposes the latest happenings in American culture. . You can expect weekly episodes every single day, delivered straight to your ears, wherever you get your chancell, every chance you get a chance to listen to it. - stay free with the latest in the latest episode of "Stay Free With RUSS BRADDY! and much more! Stay free with RUSSUAL, stay free, RUSS FREE with RUSSEAN BRAND! - RUSS FREEDOM. RUSS + RUSSY MACHINERY, RASHLEY MCCARTO, R.J. BONUS CONTENT: R.S. BRADDITIONAL PODCAST - R.E. R.K. MACHIEVAGE, RICHARD MADELLAUSSIVA, VAN VENGE, VANDAN SPEAKER, GABRIKE, JOSH MILLER, JORDAN WELCOME, SAM MAYLEK, JAMES KLEIN, VADAN SHELLENBERG, GREECE, AND MORE!
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00:01:13.000And we do need to create a movement, because let's face it, whether it's Canada with weird assisted suicide laws or Australia with their pandemic internment camps or now Ireland proposing hate speech laws that will turn just controversial language or rudeness into hate speech and therefore make it a criminal offence with very vague definitions around what constitutes hate speech.
00:01:33.000It seems to me that globalism is becoming Yet more potent, yet more priapic, yet more certain in their ideological right to control your thought, the information you'll have access to, the things you can freely say, the type of relationships you might have, the sort of information that you can consume online.
00:01:49.000All of this is under threat and it's pretty bloody serious.
00:01:52.000And it's being presented as if it's sort of no big deal and we've done some polling and it's all going to be okay.
00:01:56.000You should see this dude prevaricating on the point of polling.
00:01:59.000We polled some people on hate speech and what did you discover?
00:02:16.000Taoiseach, your government conducted a public consultation regarding hate speech laws where citizens were asked to give their thoughts on the issue, and out of the thousands of responses from private individuals, over 70% were not supportive of such laws.
00:02:28.000All these leaders that look kind of nice, and seem kind of nice, and you can tell they'll be really reasonable, and like, oh hello, no you're most welcome.
00:02:35.000Then you listen to them, they're passing mad weird laws.
00:02:38.000They feel someone that spoke like this, WE ARE GOING TO DO WHAT IS NE- You go, mate, Jesus Christ!
00:02:43.000Just everyone's being so reasonable, they're getting away with sometimes literal murder, and always nearly tyranny.
00:02:48.000And yet you're proceeding with them anyway.
00:02:50.000So my question is, why did your government bother to do a public consultation if you were just going to ignore the results?
00:03:24.000So it's only a small number of people so we can ignore it.
00:03:27.000It's only a small portion of the population that participate in these things so it's not necessarily reflective of public opinion and also we're wise to the fact that very often submissions are organized and campaign groups will organize responses so we're clear with that too.
00:03:40.000Even the bloke in the background whose job it is to agree like he's laden with doubt it's like that doesn't make sense hold on a minute like we're literally in real time watching someone who works for the system go Wait a minute.
00:03:53.000Is that red pill in my mouth right now?
00:03:57.000But why hold the consultation if the end result is just going to be disregarded on the basis that it's not representative of public opinion?
00:04:21.000Look at him in the background going, hold on a minute, that poll was a complete waste of time!
00:04:32.000He's realising, what I'd like to hear, instead of the leader there, is the inner monologue of that bloke who's listening.
00:04:38.000As he slowly works out that the entire system is totally corrupt and what's being legitimised is the introduction of laws that people don't want because it's not about the people.
00:04:57.000Because the only way we're going to be able to abate and subjugate a population is by having the legal means to do it because people are waking up to the fact that governments That's not what they're about.
00:05:07.000They're about testing the temperature.
00:07:19.000Well, to protect Ukraine and democracy.
00:07:20.000But they don't allow elections and there's no opposing parties and there's a lot of dissent within Ukraine and they've started to shut down state media.
00:07:30.000They informed me that they had engaged immediately with the large platforms and with the Gardaà and the European Commission and that the platforms had activated their instant response plans and their engagement is continuing.
00:07:41.000An Comisión is calling for those who see hate speech or other illegal content online to report it to the platforms or to An Gardaà SÃochána.
00:07:49.000And then we'll decide if it's hate speech that we can utilise to control the conversation, and we'll act on it if it's convenient hate speech, and we'll ignore it if it's hate speech that we can't really utilise to manage the flow of information.
00:08:01.000So we'll keep this all nice and vague, but the end result will be we've got control of social media and therefore the public conversation, and we can then essentially facilitate globalism, which you know is the agenda, because we've asked you what you wanted, you told us no, they told us yes, we're doing what they want.
00:08:15.000So there'll be a lot more of that coming down the line.
00:08:16.000And I don't know if there's anything in Irish history about informing on your community in order to facilitate an external colonial imperialist oppressor, whether or not you have any taboos against that or anything, or the black and tans, but there's going to be a lot more of that also.
00:08:30.000This is important, but even more so important next year, because once An Comission is fully operational next year, People will be able to report to them directly if they think a platform has ignored or wrongly rejected their complaint.
00:08:44.000And these reports can then be used by Cumann na mBan to decide where to focus their oversight and investigations and ultimately their enforcement action.
00:08:53.000A lot of this goes on in the world now, doesn't it?
00:08:54.000We can use people to grass snitch, spy on one another.
00:08:59.000Oh, people were going out during the lockdown.
00:09:01.000Well, in retrospect, there was nothing wrong with them doing that, it turns out.
00:09:04.000Turning us all into little agents of the state.
00:09:07.000Finally, Uncomissioned's first online safety code, as provided for under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, will be adopted in early 2024.
00:09:16.000A draft code will be published very shortly for stakeholder consultation and this will hold the video sharing platforms accountable for how they protect their users online and will deal with extremist content like hate speech and incitement to violence.
00:09:31.000There's already laws about incitement, that's legal already, you don't need a new law for that.
00:09:51.000Elon Musk has said his social media company X, previously known as Twitter, will fund Irish legal challenges to forthcoming hate speech legislation.
00:09:58.000Musk warned of risks associated with laws that aim to curb free speech and said there was a need to challenge them.
00:10:03.000In an online interview with Gripped, Musk said X's default position is that it will challenge any laws it believes would infringe upon someone's ability to say what they want to say.
00:10:12.000He was speaking in relation to Ireland's pending criminal justice incitement to violence or hatred and hate offences bill, which Minister for Justice Helen McEntree said would be progressed early this year.
00:10:23.000And we will also fund the legal fees of Irish citizens that want to challenge the bill as well.
00:10:28.000So Mr. Musk, whose ex-platform has its European headquarters in Dublin.
00:10:32.000So we'll make sure that if there is an attempt to suppress the voice of the Irish people, that we do our absolute best to defend the people of Ireland and their ability to speak their mind.
00:10:40.000He said there should be concern if the Irish Parliament defined hate speech in its own terms.
00:10:45.000People should be extremely concerned about that.
00:10:47.000We're just at the mercy of the ruling party and whatever bureaucrats they put in place and they can just define something that is really not hate speech as hate speech just because they don't like it.
00:12:18.000In relation to misinformation and disinformation, he said unlike in newspapers, X had a community notes function which allowed its users to add responses and comments on people's tweets.
00:12:26.000The biggest lie in the media is the choice of narrative because they can simply ignore anything they don't like and they can overly focus on things they do want to talk about, he said.
00:12:35.000Yes, that is what the legacy media does.
00:12:37.000It amplifies stories, it creates stories, it ignores information that's detrimental to the interests of the powerful.
00:12:43.000for whatever failings there may be within any institutional organisation doesn't do that.
00:12:49.000And it allows and facilitates potentially epochal events like the disruption of our trajectory to World War 3
00:13:17.000Last year, Musk committed to covering legal charges for ex-users who unfairly faced employer retribution due to their activity on the platform.
00:13:24.000Even corporations drawing his ire due to the unfair treatment of ex-users were not safe from potential legal consequences.
00:13:31.000In a case involving X, the company's legal team defended an Illinois student threatened with disciplinary action by his university over posts made on the platform.
00:13:39.000An advocate for freedom of speech writes, Musk posted, What we're told we live in are democracies.
00:13:49.000What we're told we fight for are democracies.
00:13:52.000Kind of a version of freedom, or the best way of achieving freedom, is through the consensus of an electorate.
00:14:34.000One theory is we now live in anarcho-tyrannies.
00:14:37.000Let's look at what anarcho-tyranny is.
00:14:39.000Anarcho-tyranny is a system of government that fails to protect its citizens from violence while simultaneously persecuting conduct that would typically be regarded as innocent.
00:14:48.000The experience of living under such a system may be familiar to you, even if the term itself is not.
00:14:52.000A state of anarcho-tyranny might, for instance, see career criminals walk the streets murdering women mere days after being released from prison on license, even while offensive limericks, online poetry, and dogs trained to perform comical Nazi salutes are treated with the utmost seriousness by our criminal justice system.
00:15:08.000The result is a disorienting combination of two different kinds of fear.
00:15:12.000Fear of rising violent crime combined with a fear of arbitrary criminalization, including the criminalization of citizens who complain about what is being done to them by their governments.
00:15:23.000Systems of anarcho-tyranny rely especially on laws that criminalise speech that would ordinarily be regarded merely as rude or controversial.
00:15:30.000In Ireland, the Verac government is currently fast-tracking just such a law.
00:15:34.000The Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill, which will criminalise any person who prepares or possesses material that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or group of persons on account of their protected characteristics.
00:15:55.000Now that's a word that a vengeful prosecutor could really make hay with, particularly given the usefulness of that additional word, likely.
00:16:02.000With the new law in place, the authorities could easily decree that all sorts of politically inconvenient speech is likely to incite hatred against particular groups.
00:16:10.000We are restricting freedom, said Irish Senator Pauline O'Reilly of the Bill, but we're doing it for the common good.
00:16:15.000Categories such as misinformation and disinformation have recently emerged.
00:16:20.000And mal-information is, even by the definition of the tyrannical bureaucrats that impose it, information that's true but likely to create disobedience.
00:16:29.000For example, during the pandemic period, if you said, hey, there are different ways of treating this other than the proposed and near mandated measures, that would be regarded as malinformation because it's true, but likely to generate dissent, further dissent, maybe even disobedience.
00:16:45.000It would also be regarded as malinformation to say, hey, Vladimir Putin and the former Soviet Union said that if you encroached on former Soviet territory, it would lead to an escalation of hostility, particularly between them and Ukraine.
00:16:59.000And the 2014 coup, where a legitimately elected government was replaced, has also escalated tensions in that region.
00:17:07.000And Vladimir Putin might be interested in a peace deal were Ukraine not to join NATO.
00:17:40.000Laws like this are being created to further empower centralised authority, often derived from globalist or at least continental organisations like the EU, which are ultimately a globalist organisation if you ask me, in order to further shut down dissent and impose control.
00:17:57.000You'll see a lot more of this, particularly if bills like this one are allowed to pass.
00:18:01.000It's the sort of thing that we should oppose, and it's pretty fascinating and exciting that Elon Musk is willing to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to backing free speech.
00:18:10.000We'll be following this story in more detail, and I hope that you will continue to support our right for free speech.
00:18:15.000Because in a sense, what you're saying is, if you don't agree with that, Yeah, we shouldn't be allowed to say what we want.
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