Introduction

I'm starting this catalogging project looking at the past ~30 years of interviews, talks, presentations, documentaries, etc on the broad topic of digital rights.

For each video link, i'm including an explicit Youtube Download (yt-dlp) command to more easily offline-archive the content to allow watching without as much digital surveillance. yt-dlp is not limited to downloading Youtube content.

For macOS users, brew install yt-dlp is all you need to install it.

Video Catalog

Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: "Cloud & AI Are the Bombs & Bullets of the 21st Century"

2025 April 11
Vaniya Agrawal, Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jY5rbSfh_Y"

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like

2025 April 9
Carole Cadwalladr
TED
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE"

Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa On the US’s Authoritarian Slide

2025 March 6
Maria Ressa, Jon Stewart
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHoX9ZpA_M"

Israel’s use of AI in Gaza should terrify us all

2025 February 12
Antony Loewenstein
Middle East Eye
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKgwGPqhVc"

Maria Ressa speech at Vatican: Hope comes from action

2025 January 25
Maria Ressa
Rappler
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kHvIeYN5M"

Maria Ressa on Meta scrapping fact-checking program in the US

2025 January 8
Maria Ressa
Rappler, Rappler Talk
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGbzkDDdX4s"

The Gaza Laboratory: How “battle-tested” AI is a Threat to the World

2024 June 13
Antony Loewenstein
7amleh, Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2024
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSg4WGBE1ys"

Maria Ressa delivers the Commencement Address

2024 May 23
Maria Ressa
Harvard University, Harvard Commencement 2024
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dETo7ECQKc"

The AI series: AI and Surveillance Capitalism

2024 February 22
Camille Francois, Meredith Whittaker
Al Jazeera English, Studio B: Unscripted
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzQXWq_Sp0"

AI and its implications on elections: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa in interview

2023 December 20
Maria Ressa
DW News
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8AUdqpJTcI"

Maria Ressa: How Social Media Uses Free Speech To Stifle Free Speech

2022 November 30
Maria Ressa, Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpWevZ5yQz8"

Is Big Tech the New Empire?

2020 March 27
Maria Ressa, Christopher Wylie
Al Jazeera English, Studio B: Unscripted
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLUfA6QJlE"

Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy

2019 April
Carole Cadwalladr
TED
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ"

Let's take back the Internet!

2011 July 14
Rebecca MacKinnon
TED
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDoCLf96Kg"