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. 175 Jawboning, book banning, and LeBron James thinks hate speech isn’t free speech (also Elon Musk … again)
Ep. 174 Elon Musk, PayPal, and is New York trying to destroy Twitch?
Ep. 173 Does your book need a sensitivity reader?
Ep. 172 What does the First Amendment protect on social media?
Ep. 171 Nature Human Misbehavior
Ep. 170 Free speech and the American Founding
Ep. 169 The Art of Insubordination
Ep. 168 Assassin’s veto comes for Rushdie
Ep. 167 That Facebook post about abortion could land you in jail
Ep. 166 Substack, a platform for free speech?
Ep. 165 Title IX gets twisted again
Ep. 164 ‘The First Amendment created gay America’
Ep. 163 The new FIRE
Ep. 162 “Parental Advisory” and music censorship with Eric Nuzum
Ep. 161 What did ‘On the Media’ get wrong about free speech … again?
Ep. 160 Hugh Hefner, free speech scrapbooker
Ep. 159 Disney and Elon Musk
Ep. 158 What is academic freedom?
Ep. 157 Former BBC bureau chief Konstantin Eggert and what you need to know about censorship in Russia
Ep. 156 What Russians don’t know about the war in Ukraine
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