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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 HN

Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
10 HN recommender · 2011–2017
9 mo on HN

Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech

hitch archive
9 HN recommender · 2018–2022
9 mo on HN

We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

TED
8 HN recommender · 2013–2026
6 mo on HN

28c3: The coming war on general computation

28c3
6 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HN

Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version

Question Copyright
6 HN recommender · 2010–2026
6 mo on HN

Civil War General-Purpose Computing | Cory Doctorow | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2012–2026
5 mo on HN

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

The Riverbends Channel
5 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HN

29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing and surveillance

thisdayinwikileaks
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HN

James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

Aeon Video
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN

Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing

gsmokeyjoe
5 HN recommender · 2011–2016
3 mo on HN

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HN

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)

moviemaniacsDE
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HN

Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate

ReasonTV
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

I made a talking banana

Useless Duck Company
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

youtube YouTube Stewart Lee 9 Political Correctness 41st Best Stand Up ever

MrSenseisnotcommon
3 HN recommender · 2014–2022
3 mo on HN

In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech

Defend Free Speech
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Should Knowledge Be Free?

Medlife Crisis
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

F2C2012
2 HN recommender · 2013–2023
2 mo on HN

SLAPP Suits: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN

re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media

re:publica
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HN

Rowan Atkinson on free speech

The Christian Institute
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

Flex Your Rights
2 HN recommender · 2010–2014
2 mo on HN

Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

OpenRightsGroup
2 HN recommender · 2011–2014
2 mo on HN

Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem

Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"

Santarchy
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020
2 mo on HN

Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht

TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HN

"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"

Infranaut
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HN

John Stossel's Illegal Everything

VP attnm
2 HN recommender · 2012–2026
1 mo on HN

George Carlin - Euphemisms & political correctness

aaron pryor
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

The Whitest Kids U' Know - I want to kill the president

Weidmann
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech for Views You Don't Like

Chomsky's Philosophy
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN

A Man For All Seasons - Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law

CrassHeretic
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HN

A Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech

dniete97
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

Comic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?

TheVoxRox
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HN

All Creative Work Is Derivative

Question Copyright
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr

Unapproved Narratives
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022