Silenced? - I'm bored of the free speech debate

I'm bored of the way that people talk about free speech! It's always positioned as a debate between competing rights or intellectualised debates on when its ok to censor things but it rarely ever seems to talk about how free speech is a material condition, with material impacts and material constraints which can only be overcome by overcoming the current systems of oppression that exist currently within our society.

This video looks to rebalance some of those conversations by talking about how speech, especially speech which is a threat to current systems, is materially suppressed by capitalism and how the free speech debate itself is a way in which the dominant forms of power sustain themselves.

Part 1 talks about how the media isn't a vehicle for free speech but rather a vehicle for uplifting speech which supports capitalism and the state

Part 2 is about how social media companies, as companies, are subject to many of the same constraints as traditional media

and Part 3 (in my view the most interesting part so stick around for that!) concerns how the free speech debate is really for projecting classical liberal values, constructing a racialised other and reconstructing whiteness

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Thanks to ‪@JonTheLitCritGuy‬ , Aarjan from Leftoverpod, Nparticipation on twitch, and Chloe from Comradio for their beautiful line readings in this!

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