The Death of Free Speech? How Social Media Became Judge, Jury & Executioner

Is free speech dead in the digital age? 🤐

Jack Austin and Adam Garcia tackle one of today's most explosive topics - who really decides what you can and can't say online anymore.

The thing is, we're living in this mental paradox where everyone has a platform but the boundaries of what's acceptable keep shifting.

From Jack's recent Facebook cancellation (and the wild story of a scammer who actually made more money impersonating him) to people getting jail time for social media posts, this episode digs into the reality behind cancel culture.

We explore:

Why some protests get protection while Facebook comments land you in prison
The psychology of why humans are addicted to digital drama (hint: it's not that different from medieval executions)
How Silicon Valley billionaires became the new speech police
The shocking double standards in content moderation
That time a scammer made £4k pretending to be Jack (while his actual business made less)
From ancient Greek ostracism to today's shadow banning, we unpack how the power to control speech shifted from governments to tech companies - and what that means for all of us.

Key moments that blew our minds:

🎯 Facebook protecting fake accounts while banning real people for jokes

🎯 The 300,000 moderation decisions Facebook makes EVERY MINUTE

🎯 Why "hurt feelings" became a weapon of mass cancellation

🎯 The Adler philosophy approach to choosing to be offended

🎯 How the UK jails people for posts while allowing actual calls for genocide

"If Jamie told you to jump off a cliff, would you?" - Yeah, your teacher was onto something.

Whether you're worried about being cancelled or just trying to work out why your reach suddenly tanked, this cuts through the partisan nonsense to find what's actually going on.

I was thinking about this earlier - we've never had true free speech, but the stakes have never been this high or this weird.

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