Ryan Bridge: Is the work of activists making a difference?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 7, 2025 · 1m · transcript

Regular listeners will know, when it comes to free speech, I'm into it.

How else do we get smarter but to debate ideas, put them through the ringer, shout and scream and reason and argue?

We've been doing it since we could talk - which is, well, a long time.

When the MAGA mob came for Jimmy Kimmel, I defended him. On this programme.

Many of you agreed. Some of you did not, which is what we call an argument, and that's okay too.

So yesterday, when the telco OneNZ decided to pull those ads with the activist in them, I had a genuine moral conundrum.

See I think people should be able to protest…