Joyce Fegan: The Joe Rogan experience is not about free speech

'How have we got to a place where fact-checking is akin to censoring? How have we got to a place where massive global publishers are free of all editorial responsibility?'

Neil Young (left) and Joe Rogan. Picture: AP

THIS week, a former cage-fighting TV pundit helped to break open our perennial debate on “free speech”.

In the age of the internet, and in a pandemic, this current debate had been bubbling away for some time. And now, thanks to Joe Rogan, it’s finally been skewered open.