Unify Action - June 03, 2025


These Students Tell Me FREE SPEECH Has A Limit!

Hosted by
Sarah Dotzert
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Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

186.68

Word count

781

Sentence count

24

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of free speech, hate speech, and online hate speech. We also talk about the impact of social media and how it affects free speech in the modern world, and what we should do about it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Do you think free speech is a fundamental right?
00:00:04.000 Yeah.
00:00:05.000 I do think that free speech is a fundamental right.
00:00:08.000 Yes.
00:00:09.000 Yes.
00:00:10.000 Do you think free speech is a fundamental right?
00:00:12.000 So I think free speech, I believe, is important because it gives everyone the opportunity to showcase their ideas, their perspectives.
00:00:18.000 And I think it allows people to learn from them as well, whether we agree or disagree.
00:00:22.000 I think having that openness to learn, I think, is important.
00:00:25.000 Yeah, do you think things like misinformation, hate speech, and racism still fall under free speech that should be protected?
00:00:32.000 I think there are limits to free speech in terms of, like, if it were to hurt someone or be used to target an individual,
00:00:39.000 it shouldn't, like, there should be restrictions on that imposed by the government.
00:00:44.000 So I guess not all speech, like, some speech should be protected.
00:00:47.000 I think speech that is meant to attack, be violent and hurt someone is not something
00:00:54.340 that we should protect and not something we should advocate for.
00:00:57.200 For example, hate speech that's bringing down a specific demographic of a group of people
00:01:02.440 and I don't think that should fall under free speech.
00:01:04.560 Well, it's difficult to know what is hate speech and what's not because it's all in
00:01:09.460 the eye or the behold.
00:01:10.460 What one person thinks is hate speech, another person might think is just them expressing
00:01:14.540 their opinion.
00:01:15.680 who should decide what is and what isn't hate speech? Should it be the government?
00:01:21.280 That's a good question. I think ultimately I think it depends on the way society is. I think
00:01:27.280 society should be the one to decide that. I think having just the government to play a role into
00:01:32.400 that I think is something that could be good but also couldn't be depending on that. I think it
00:01:37.520 should be up to the public like Canadian public more so like us. So do you think hate speech
00:01:43.120 should be criminalized hate speech is just one step in causing further harm like if you are
00:01:51.040 continuing to hate speech a certain person or type of people it brings attention to that group which
00:01:56.960 can inflict more harm to them like it's a hate crime yeah it's a crime so i guess that depends
00:02:02.960 on what the reactions are for the crime but yeah so in the uk they um they have fairly strict uh
00:02:10.560 online hate speech laws and it's around like 30 arrests a day that they make it's quite ridiculous
00:02:15.280 the things that they arrest for they arrest in germany they arrest for like a meme online
00:02:20.560 i feel like there's there would have a reason for why they're arresting so many people especially
00:02:25.680 because online there's you're like anonymous so you don't you have that barrier to protect
00:02:30.320 yourselves again so more people are open about their hate and i think that's like an early
00:02:35.200 warning sign for potential crimes that they could commit later on yeah so in the uk one
00:02:41.680 of the things that they're arresting people for is when they call out these grooming gangs so 0.95
00:02:49.120 they have actually a fairly big problem in the uk with this it's it's minority men especially
00:02:55.200 immigrant men who are doing very horrible things to young women and girls and because it's a
00:03:01.920 a minority. When someone calls this out, calls out these actions, the very disgusting sexual 0.99
00:03:08.900 acts that these men are committing, when they call it out, they're actually getting arrested
00:03:13.460 for it. Is that wrong? If they're calling out a wrong act, even if it is a minority,
00:03:19.260 should they still be arrested for that? I don't think they should be. The crime itself
00:03:23.780 should be called out. They have these sort of laws over there. Is it scary that we could
00:03:28.300 have something like that here if people are getting arrested for stuff they post online like
00:03:34.300 how are people even able to like live their lives because if people are like afraid of expressing
00:03:40.780 their opinion then if they don't express their opinion at all then society will just stay the
00:03:46.380 same not involved at all maybe go on a decline and that's not the type of like world that regular
00:03:52.860 people want to live in 100 that's something that we should be afraid of because that's something
00:03:57.740 that's like honestly it's like absurd like at the end of the day like it's always been there like
00:04:02.780 people have always said what they've wanted the only difference is now that with social
00:04:05.980 media it gets like vocalized to the thousands of millions and i don't think we should be penalized