- -: James Mann - Three Scenarios for China's Future
March 14, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=749 Author James Mann discusses three possible outcomes economic liberalization may hold for the political future of China. ----- Author James Mann discusses "The China Fantasy" at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C. James Ma...
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- -: Is YouTube Changing Politics?
June 11, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1071 YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley examines the growing use of YouTube as a platform for political discussion. ----- Chad Hurley and Steven Chen in conversation with Chris Anderson. With YouTube, Hurley and Chen created a new wa...
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- -: David Hajdu - Censorship in the Comic Book Industry
April 24, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/21/David_Hajdu_Ten-Cent_Plague Author David Hajdu discusses 1950's-era self-censorship in the comic book industry. ----- "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" with author David Hajdu. Comic books, not rock-and-ro...
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- -: Elizabeth Stephens - Artists and Political Expression
April 30, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/25/Women_Artists_and_Political_Expression Elizabeth Stephens, Chair of the Art Department at the University of California - Santa Cruz, argues that politically-aware artists have a particular responsibility to incorporate their beliefs into their work. ...
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- -: Are the Olympics Affecting China on Human Rights?
July 25, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/Chinas_Olympic_Human_Rights_Challenges Human Rights Watch Media Director Minky Worden discusses whether recent international attention due to environmental disasters, economic growth, and the 2008 Olympics has affected China's positions on human right...
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- -: In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - Cassandra Wilkinson
December 18, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/01/Battle_of_Ideas_Caught_in_the_Web Australian media commentator Cassandra Wilkinson weighs the dangers of censoring free speech on the internet. Wilkinson argues that, although a complete freedom of speech might enable unwanted activity such as pedophi...
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- -: You Can't Translate 'Shake n' Bake' Into Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
December 20, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/23/Firoozeh_Dumas_Laughing_Without_An_Accent Author Firoozeh Dumas describes the difficulty of translating her best-selling book "Funny in Farsi" from English into Farsi, so that Iranian censors could clear it for distribution in Iran. ----- Often lost...
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- -: Google's Gatekeeper: The Most Powerful Woman on the Net
February 24, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Looking_for_Jefferson_s_Moose_State_of_Cyberspace Legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen reflects on his meeting with "Google's gatekeeper," deputy general counsel Nicole Wong -- a woman who, Rosen claims, has more control over free speech than practically anyon...
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- -: Adventures with Al Franken - Tom Davis
April 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/18/Tom_Davis_The_Early_Days_of_SNL Tom Davis, one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live and longtime friend of comedian-turned-politician Al Franken, recounts an incident where the two of them were detained at the US-Canada border for looking l...
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- -: Art, Ethics and the Law - David Marr
June 22, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/22/The_Future_of_Hard-Hitting_Investigative_Journalism Journalist David Marr reflects on the case involving Australian photographer Bill Henson's photos of semi-nude adolescent girls. Marr criticizes the tendency to involve government and police into mat...
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