Russell Brand & Matt Taibbi on Governments Enacting Online Censorship Bills in the Name of 'Safety'

"All the laws that you're talking about have tremendous implications for the ability of ordinary people to conduct democracy. These sort of top down measures, they imply that speech is dangerous.

I think COVID is the primary example of why these kinds of laws can be abused. With COVID one of the things that happened was you saw early on there were scientists like Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford and Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, who were suppressed in the Internet not because they got anything wrong, not because they were inciting people or committing libel or doing anything that you would traditionally consider a crime or a speech offense, but because they were opposing a government policy."

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