Free speech, censorship & civil liberties Videos Recommended on Hacker News (104)
Free speech, censorship & civil liberties is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 104 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 188 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Civil liberties: free speech debates, censorship, content moderation, whistleblowers, privacy rights, political correctness, controversial debates, Buckley and Baldwin, activism.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google: “That video has changed my point of view on the entire subject and has allowed me to start striking at the root.” — an HN commenter, 2012.
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11 mo on HNRepublic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google
9 mo on HNChristopher Hitchens - Free Speech
9 mo on HNWe the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig
6 mo on HN28c3: The coming war on general computation
6 mo on HNCopying Is Not Theft - Official Version
6 mo on HNCivil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google
5 mo on HNJames Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
4 mo on HN29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing and surveillance
3 mo on HNJames Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965
4 mo on HNStephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing
3 mo on HNAstroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
3 mo on HNThe Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
3 mo on HNAbolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate
3 mo on HNI made a talking banana
3 mo on HNyoutube YouTube Stewart Lee 9 Political Correctness 41st Best Stand Up ever
3 mo on HNIn full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
3 mo on HNShould Knowledge Be Free?
2 mo on HNF2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
2 mo on HNSLAPP Suits: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2 mo on HNre:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
2 mo on HNRowan Atkinson on free speech
2 mo on HNBUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
2 mo on HNGaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
2 mo on HNWhy Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem
2 mo on HNNoam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
2 mo on HNCopyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
2 mo on HN"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
2 mo on HNJohn Stossel's Illegal Everything
1 mo on HNGeorge Carlin - Euphemisms & political correctness
1 mo on HNThe Whitest Kids U' Know - I want to kill the president
1 mo on HNNoam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech for Views You Don't Like
1 mo on HNA Man For All Seasons - Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law
1 mo on HNA Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech
1 mo on HNComic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?
1 mo on HNAll Creative Work Is Derivative
1 mo on HN