Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Defend Your Rights #FreedomOfTweets
Aired: 2015-11-22
Duration: 01:56


=== Defending Individual Rights (01:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Alright, let's get fuck off because Sydney's going to say something you'll probably get off.
[00:00:03]  Alright, take care.
[00:00:04]  Thank you so much.
[00:00:06]  Yeah, this is something I'll probably do my own live stream about.
[00:00:10]  i've got a bigger audience so um i'm hoping that we can get more than all right no need for that I'm not trying to rub it in, but unfortunately.
[00:00:21]  donate to the Kickstarter, the crowdfunding campaign, which I'm a little bit disappointed about because 22,000 people have watched the video I made about it in the time that we've been doing this.
[00:00:31]  So I was kind of hoping that more would have donated because I don't really understand.
[00:00:36]  I don't think people understand the ramifications for Canada's free speech laws if this goes through.
[00:00:42]  And I guess that fundamentally this all boils down to one principle, which is the defense of one person's rights is the defense of every person's rights.
[00:00:52]  So when you defend someone else's individual rights, the right to freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, you are defending your own rights to that very same thing.
[00:01:04]  And if we all come to the aid of any one person who needs this aid, then we defend ourselves every time.
[00:01:12]  And I can't stress how important this is.
[00:01:15]  So I'll continue to be doing activism about this in various streams because it's something that really worries me that people think things might just happen on their own.
[00:01:24]  It's not going to happen on their own.
[00:01:27]  Whoever's listening to this, you as an individual, have to think to yourself, right, what can be done?
[00:01:33]  Which is what I as an individual will be doing with the resources at my disposal.
[00:01:38]  I'm not trying to pressure people, but honestly, I do think this is a very important case and I do find it a fucking worrying precedent that a man is in court over disagreeing on Twitter with feminists.
[00:01:50]  So that's just my exhortation, I suppose.
[00:01:54]  Thanks so much for having me on the stream.
[00:01:56]  Thank you for that.
[00:01:56]  Thank you.