Silkie Carlo

Get ready for the crackdown


August 8, 2024
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Could Keir Starmer exploit the summer riots to curtail civil liberties? From the return of the Counter Disinformation Unit to the start of live facial recognition, Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo joins UnHerd to discuss the UK crackdown.

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Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
2 months ago

Both of these ladies have completely swallowed the establishment line on Tommy Robinson. Ladies, failing to achieve a truth defence in a defamation case, brought by someone who is no longer a child, especially when public money has been used to silence the most credible witnesses, is not the same as telling lies about a vulnerable child!
Particularly shocking for a site that supports heterodox thinking and free speech and someone who is concerned about civil liberties.
Whatever else may be true about him Yaxley Lennon (Tommy Robinson) has repeatedly told his supporters not to get involved in violence pointing out quite correctly that it will only get them in trouble and be counter productive to the cause.

Ed Dennis
Ed Dennis
2 months ago
Reply to  Adrian Smith

100 percent agree

They have demonised Tommy Robinson

He has only ever exposed the truth on rape gangs and two Tier policing and justice in the UK

Silki Carlo is talking nonsense

Disgusting

Neil Turrell
Neil Turrell
2 months ago
Reply to  Adrian Smith

Very much agree. I voted for Reform at the last election and was pleased with the performance of the party. However, although Richard Tice has performed (this week) quite well, if woodenly, I’m really disappointed with Farage. He threw Tommy under the bus in one of his interviews this week – it hasn’t gone down well with Reform supporters. I’m sure the political motive is along the lines of a cordon sanitaire, but the optics are dreadful.

Martin Ashford
Martin Ashford
1 month ago
Reply to  Adrian Smith

Indeed. And how Silkie spewed out the establishment line regarding the recent reaction to three little girls being slaughtered was troubling. Apart from bemoaning the surveillance state it was absolutely on-narrative. They should have titled the episode “An Introduction to State Propaganda for Newbie Dissenters – featuring anti-dissenter Silkie Carlo”

Arthur King
Arthur King
2 months ago

Watched Tommy Robinsons video and the evidence shows he was right. The UK courts are a sham.

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
2 months ago
Reply to  Arthur King

By virtue of going bankrupt he ended up defending himself. He can be his own worst enemy at times. I read the judgment and can understand the judges point of view. With proper representation he might have been able to reopen the public interest defence, especially if he could show public money had been used to silence key witnesses. That said the judge could have been more curious about why he was presented with secretly filmed video hear say evidence, rather than having the teacher and head teacher on the stand available for cross examination.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Hijazi-v-Yaxley-Lennon-judgment-220721.pdf
These are worth a watch. It shows how the Police completely cocked up and mistreated him, how the MSM lied about what really happened in court and how the court was extremely fair, going beyond what it needed to, when it threw a different case against him out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnYnzJs7I9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-iO5VE0now

Ed Dennis
Ed Dennis
2 months ago
Reply to  Adrian Smith

We are living in Orwellian times

Silki Carlo appears to be out of her depth

simon smith
simon smith
2 months ago

Great podcast.

Well done for pointing out the subtlety of soft censorship. The threat of having sponsorship pulled is something that makes a lot of content creators self censor.