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MR BEAN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH

1. Spock says:

   January 10, 2021 - 11:28 pm at 11:28 pm

   I do not think Youtube would allow him to make this speech today. It is two years old, which is an age ago, when the world was a different planet.

2. YYZ says:

   January 11, 2021 - 12:15 am at 12:15 am

   Although I could not find a video of him actually saying it, here is a montage of a statement he made as recently as 1/5/21.

   against cancel culture.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IXvioh_EKQ

   https://deadline.com/2021/01/rowan-atkinson-cancel-culture-mr-bean-blackadder-1234664901/

3. Fullgoldcrown says:

   January 11, 2021 - 12:21 am at 12:21 am

   I Found an article from just 5 days ago …I talks about his next moves in his career as well but I will just post his comments….excellent

   Rowan Atkinson has condemned online cancel culture as ‘the digital equivalent of the medieval mob’.

   The actor, best known for his roles as Blackadder and Mr Bean, said social media fills him with ‘fear about the future’.

   In an interview with the Radio Times, he also said social media has widened divisions in society and lowered tolerance.

   He said: ‘The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society.
   It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘cancelled’.

   ‘It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn

   So it is scary for anyone who’s a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future.’

   He added: ‘It’s very pleasing that people want to connect with Mr Bean, but I have no desire to have any presence on social media. What happens there is a sideshow in my world.’

   He has previously campaigned against laws which could limit free speech and offensive language