Free Speech is for Losers: A Conversation with Bruce Pardy

About this episode

Jonathan Fortier discusses the threats to free speech with Bruce Pardy, focusing on censorship in various regions and its implications for political liberty.

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Bruce Pardy about the assaults on free speech in Canada, the UK and Europe. These moves to censor and control speech, especially online content, are ominous indicators of multiple assaults on free expression and political liberty more generally. Pardy outlines the various developments, the legal implications, and argues that our liberty won’t be reclaimed if we continue to outsource our problem solving to the state. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Fortier

Guest: Bruce Pardy

Topics covered

• free speech
• censorship
• political liberty
• legal implications
• online content

Keywords

• free speech
• censorship
• Canada
• UK
• Europe
• political liberty
• online content
• legal implications

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Libertarianism.org

Places: Canada, UK, Europe

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