Silky, Karla are the director of Big Brother Watch in the UK. They've just released a report that is really, really worrying. It talks about government surveillance of people who have wrong opinions. Silky says it's particularly affecting members of parliament and journalists. The show will be back at 9pm ET on Friday for another edition of Trigonometry.
Silkie Carlo is the director of Big Brother Watch, a non-party British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation.
Watch our first interview with Silkie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUZHmPrbex4
For more information on the campaign go to: www.minitruth.co.uk
Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro
02:13 The Secret Government Units Spying on Us
04:22 What’s Wrong with the Government Monitoring Certain Platforms?
06:02 How Long has the Prevention of Disinformation Been Going on?
12:22 The Call to Fight Against the Attack on Free Speech
20:56 Are Social Media Companies between a Rock & a Hard Place?
22:44 Are Private Interactions Being Monitored?
33:18 How to Wake People Up
38:23 Sponsor Message: Easy DNS
39:27 How to Defend Against Restrictions on Truth
41:26 The Right to Protest
46:35 Consequences of Dysfunctional Police
48:53 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?