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. 156 What Russians don’t know about the war in Ukraine
Ep. 155 The John Roberts Supreme Court
Ep. 154 Sarah Palin v. New York Times
Ep. 153 Elitist vs. egalitarian free speech (live recording, Q&A)
Ep. 152 Banning critical race theory
Ep. 151 Fighting words
Ep. 150 George Orwell
Ep. 149 Caitlin Flanagan and Greg Lukianoff
Ep. 148 University of Austin, a new university devoted to free speech
Ep. 147 ‘The Mind of the Censor’ with Robert Corn-Revere
Ep. 146 Trigger warnings and DEI statements
Ep. 145 First Amendment history with Yale Professor Akhil Amar
Ep. 144 Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid respond to ‘On the Media’ free speech critiques
Ep. 143 Politics and thought reform in K-12 education
Ep. 142 Alfred Hitchcock and Hollywood’s Production Code
Ep. 141 Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
Ep. 140 Free speech, psychology, and madness
Ep. 139 Mahanoy v. B.L. Supreme Court ruling analysis
Ep. 138 A history of Western censorship with Eric Berkowitz
Ep. 137 The Constitution of Knowledge with Jonathan Rauch
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