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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.

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

Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool

PowerfulJRE
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
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

"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series

Duke University Department of Political Science
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
5 mo on HN

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

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

Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism

Channel 4 News
5 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HN

ADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen

Anti-Defamation League
6 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HN

The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation

Innuendo Studios
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
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

Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage

Det Kgl. Bibliotek
3 HN recommender · 2014–2016
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

China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints

ContraPoints
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
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

Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)

CYBERGEM
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

Laws that choke creativity | Larry Lessig

TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2012
2 mo on HN

Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2018–2019
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
3 mo on HN

How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System

RepresentUs
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN

Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World

ReasonTV
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
2 mo on HN

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

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

2017/08/08: James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (complete)

Jordan B Peterson
8 HN recommender · 2017–2018
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