PickVidsBest Free speech, censorship & civil liberties Videos
The 104 Free speech, censorship & civil liberties videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 1 intermediate, 103 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include PowerfulJRE, TED, Talks at Google.
Laws that choke creativity | Larry Lessig
Larry Lessig's TED talk argues that copyright law chokes creativity, drawing on John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the ASCAP cartel to make the case for reviving remix culture.
Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay
Joe Rogan interviews Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, who describe their hoax papers submitted to academic journals in grievance studies.
In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
Rowan Atkinson's speech at the launch of the Reform Section 5 campaign in Parliament in 2012.
Should Knowledge Be Free?
Medlife Crisis asks whether academic research should sit behind paywalls, covering publisher profit margins, unpaid reviewers, Sci-Hub and Aaron Swartz.
How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
A short RepresentUs explainer on how money corrupts American politics and what an anti-corruption act could do about it.
Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
A Reason TV segment, drawing on Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Bitcoin works as an escape hatch for people living under authoritarian governments and inflating currencies.
F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
Aaron Swartz's keynote at Freedom to Connect 2012 describing how ordinary people helped defeat the SOPA censorship bill.
2017/08/08: James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (complete)
Jordan Peterson's roughly 50-minute interview with James Damore, the fired Google engineer, going through his diversity memo nearly line by line.
SLAPP Suits: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver explains SLAPP suits, lawsuits designed to silence critics through legal costs, after his show's legal fight with coal executive Bob Murray.
re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
Eben Moglen's re:publica 2012 talk argues that media which spy on and data-mine the public threaten freedom of thought, and that free technology and free culture are needed to protect it.
Rowan Atkinson on free speech
Rowan Atkinson speaks against the word 'insulting' in the UK Public Order Act, as part of the Reform Section 5 campaign.
BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
A 45-minute Flex Your Rights documentary on how to deal with police in three situations: traffic stops, encounters at home, and on the street.
Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
Neil Gaiman tells the Open Rights Group how the internet and piracy affect books and publishing.
Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem
Tom Scott visits Penistone to explain the Scunthorpe problem, showing why naive web and profanity filters block innocent words.
Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council
The first of three short films by Mike Nayna about Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's experience at Evergreen State College, focusing on the Equity Council and the controversy around it.
The Really Dark Truth About Bots
Benn Jordan examines the role of bots and propaganda accounts on X and other social platforms, including the platform's decline and the influence of Russian operations.
Noam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
A 1997 Noam Chomsky talk at Northeastern University about the gap between free-market rhetoric and practice.
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht
Nina Paley's TEDxMaastricht talk arguing against copyright and for copyleft and free culture.
"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
A long video essay arguing against the claim that Blazing Saddles could not be made today.
John Stossel's Illegal Everything
A John Stossel special arguing that Americans can be criminalized for almost anything, with examples of overzealous prosecutors and regulators such as the EPA.
George Carlin - Euphemisms & political correctness
A George Carlin routine on euphemisms and political correctness, tracing how shell shock became PTSD.
The Whitest Kids U' Know - I want to kill the president
A short Whitest Kids U' Know sketch, with Spanish subtitles, in which a man repeatedly announces he wants to kill the president.
Noam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech for Views You Don't Like
A ten-minute clip of Noam Chomsky on the Faurisson affair and free speech.
Joe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein
A long Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode with psychologist Jordan Peterson and biologist Bret Weinstein, recorded during the controversy at Evergreen State College.