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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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 HNPart One: The Evergreen Equity Council
2 mo on HNThe Really Dark Truth About Bots
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 HNJoe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein
1 mo on HNWorld-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau.
1 mo on HNAfroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
1 mo on HNSen. Cruz Grills Google Executive on Alleged Censorship Bias
1 mo on HNWho is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215
1 mo on HNJulian Assange on Seth Rich
1 mo on HNWatch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE]
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 HNJoe Rogan Experience #1236 - Jack Dorsey
1 mo on HNComic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?
1 mo on HNThis is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
1 mo on HNPdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves
1 mo on HNAll Creative Work Is Derivative
1 mo on HNDoes Canada’s Bill C-16 Violate Free Speech or Protect Human Rights? | The Agenda
1 mo on HNWikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
1 mo on HNNoam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr
1 mo on HNDEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
1 mo on HN4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent
1 mo on HNSilence U Part 2: What Has Yale Become? | We the Internet Documentary
1 mo on HNStewart Lee - Political Correctness
1 mo on HNProf. Timur Kuran on "The Portal", Episode #004: "The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception."
1 mo on HNKonstantin Kisin: Woke Culture HAS Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union
0 mo on HNPolicing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime | 60 Minutes
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