Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 09SEP22

Queen Elizabeth, Free Speech and Lawsuit Against Florida’s “Stop Woke Act” & more w/ Adam Steinbaugh

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in starting with the historic reign of Queen Elizabeth II coming to an end with her death at the age of 96. We remember the longest reigning monarch in UK history by talking about the passage of time, the social media habit of speaking ill of the dead for clicks and attention, and how history moves. We also flash back to Heard Tell’s Fourth of July episode and something Ben Harris brought up then, how for the UK the Queen’s death is truly the end of an era as see is seen rightfully as one of the last of the WW2 generation.

Our guest today is FIRE First Amendment lawyer Adam Steinbaugh who joins us to talk 1A, free speech, and censorship. Adam is part of FIRE’s lawsuit against the Florida “Stop WOKE Act” and discusses why they are opposing the law, what academic freedom should and should not be, and how vague language and government overreach make for a poor law that violates more freedoms than it protects. Adam also helps us…