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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.

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

Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council

Michael Nayna
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

The Really Dark Truth About Bots

Benn Jordan
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
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

Joe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein

PowerfulJRE
1 HN recommend · 2017–2018
1 mo on HN

World-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau.

Pierre Poilievre
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
1 mo on HN

Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

ogafroman
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

Sen. Cruz Grills Google Executive on Alleged Censorship Bias

Senator Ted Cruz
1 HN recommend · 2019–2020
1 mo on HN

Who is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2019–2020
1 mo on HN

Julian Assange on Seth Rich

Nieuwsuur
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

Watch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE]

Institute for Justice
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
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

Joe Rogan Experience #1236 - Jack Dorsey

PowerfulJRE
1 HN recommend · 2019–2019
1 mo on HN

Comic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?

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

This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

PdF YouTube
1 HN recommend · 2011–2023
1 mo on HN

All Creative Work Is Derivative

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

Does Canada’s Bill C-16 Violate Free Speech or Protect Human Rights? | The Agenda

TVO Today
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

UnHerd
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr

Unapproved Narratives
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

DEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution

Christiaan008
1 HN recommend · 2012–2019
1 mo on HN

4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent

Chris Voluntaryist
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HN

Silence U Part 2: What Has Yale Become? | We the Internet Documentary

We the Internet TV
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HN

Stewart Lee - Political Correctness

Jimmy Lee
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

Prof. Timur Kuran on "The Portal", Episode #004: "The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception."

Eric Weinstein
1 HN recommend · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

Konstantin Kisin: Woke Culture HAS Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union

OxfordUnion
1 HN recommend · 2023–2023
0 mo on HN

Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime | 60 Minutes

60 Minutes
0 HN recommender · 2025–2025
0 mo on HN

Noam Chomsky to BBC-journalist: "If you believed different you wouldn't been sitting here."

Verantwoordelijke Pers
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023