Unify Action - June 03, 2025


These Students Tell Me FREE SPEECH Has A Limit!


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

186.67834

Word count

781

Sentence count

24

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


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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