I was stumbling around Youtube for background noise while doing other things and this popped up in the list.
It seems it was posted on this particular channel two years ago but is from a speech or event in 2012 based on some of the comments although the sentiment is timeless and certainly timely.
Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr Bean and Blackadder (or just the show of that name?) spoke in favor of changing a British law about insulting speech and the ability of the police to arrest one for speaking so. I scrolled down the comments after the video ended and found not a few people pointing out that we’ve gone in the very direction he did not wish to go and are doing (well some over there maybe more than here) are being arrested for the very thing he denounced.
One reply on “Mr Bean on Free Speech … in 2012”
Well said, Mr Atkinson. Well said.