So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
News:Politics
On today’s episode, we discuss Alexei Navalny’s death, Vladimir Putin, censorship in Russia, and Samizdat Online, an anti-censorship platform that grants users living under authoritarian regimes access to news and other censored content. Yevgeny “Genia” Simkin is the co-founder of Samizdat Online and Stanislav “Stas” Kucher is its chief content officer.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:25 Alexei Navalny
8:53 The state of Russian opposition
20:48 The origins of Samizdat Online
28:17 How does Samizdat Online circumvent censorship?
35:16 Could Yevgeny Prigozhin have overthrown Putin?
41:03 The progression of Putin’s regime
58:08 How can people help?
59:56 Outro
Show notes
Statement by Russian prison service on Alexei Navalny’s death
The Anti-Corruption Foundation (nonprofit established by Alexei Navalny)
Samizdat Online
“Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” by Peter Pomerantsev
Past related episodes
Ep. 108: A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union and beyond
Ep. 156: What Russians don’t know about the war in Ukraine
Ep. 157: Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you need to know about censorship in Russia
Ep. 39 Judge Richard Posner on the First Amendment
Ep. 38 “After Charlottesville” w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen
Ep. 37 Fredrik deBoer on the growing distrust of higher ed
Ep. 36 The life of Louis Brandeis w/ Jeffrey Rosen
Ep. 35 Et tu, hecklers? Howard Sherman on defending the arts
Ep. 34 The 100th anniversary of the Espionage Act of 1917
Ep. 33 The Slants win at the U.S. Supreme Court!
Ep. 32 Tyler Cowen on the complacent campus
Ep. 31 Campus free speech round table: spring 2017 semester in review
Ep. 30 Eugene Volokh and new frontiers in the First Amendment
Ep. 29 Former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser
Ep. 28 ‘Sex and the Constitution’ with professor Geoffrey R. Stone
Ep. 27 The ‘heckler’s veto’ strikes Heather Mac Donald
Ep. 26 Putting money where your mouth is: campaign finance and free speech
Ep. 25 Bob Corn-Revere on censorship: the ‘bastard child of technology’
Ep. 24 How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the KKK w/ dialogue
Ep. 23 Rob Corry, ‘speech code slayer’
Ep. 22 Flemming Rose, Editor of ‘the Muhammad Cartoons’
Ep. 21 The ‘Turkey Purge’ w/ Prof. Beth Baron
Ep. 20 The ‘Turkey Purge’ w/ Mahir Zeynalov
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