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 HNJoe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
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 HN"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series
5 mo on HNJames Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
5 mo on HNJordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
5 mo on HNADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen
3 mo on HNThe Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation
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 HNSlavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage
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 HNChina & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
3 mo on HNJ.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
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 HNRaiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
3 mo on HNLaws that choke creativity | Larry Lessig
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay
3 mo on HNIn full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
3 mo on HNShould Knowledge Be Free?
3 mo on HNHow to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
3 mo on HNBitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
2 mo on HNF2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
2 mo on HN2017/08/08: James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (complete)
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 HN