Is Free Speech Under Threat in the UK and US?

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00:00And as well as free speech in the UK, you had the Irish comedian Graham Linehan.

00:04He was arrested for tweets.

00:07Yeah, yeah, that's it's pathetic.

00:09Look, you know, that question of and again, you can argue people in the States and you've already pointed this out,

00:20you know, have been fired for their ghoulish statements about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

00:26OK, now it's one thing for a workplace to say, oh, well, look, that's that's that's not how we represent our company.

00:36And, you know, maybe you're a doctor, a nurse, whoever you are.

00:40No, sorry. That's a workplace decision, an employer decision.

00:44When you start talking about arresting, that's I mean, could you imagine that would be, you know,

00:49if someone who makes a ghoulish comment about the killing of Charlie Kirk, suddenly there's a knock on the door and it's the police.

00:54And they and they arrest that individual.

00:58That's what Graham went through, as you pointed out, for his tweets.

01:02It's it's bizarre.

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