Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch, passionately explores the troubling realities of government surveillance in the UK. She sheds light on secret units monitoring dissent, particularly during the pandemic, and critiques the collaboration with tech companies to censor free speech. The discussion highlights the tension between safety and civil liberties, emphasizing the dangers of disinformation units. Carlo also addresses the societal implications of vaccine passports and calls for activism against the erosion of freedom and privacy.
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?