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"My father was an alcoholic. He broke my mother's bones. He's the reason I've never drank any alcohol."
"My mom tried to find ways to get me my first computer. Once I had my computer, school was a waste of time. I want to learn about computers. I want to learn about the future."
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 12
"You start talking to them. Some things make the crowd really wake up and listen. So you start saying more of those things. You do that a thousand times to ever-increasing crowds, and the crowd really starts to go mad, and they basically tell you that you're the savior of the nation."
"How many people have to tell you that before you start to believe it?"
The Rise of Jordan Peterson. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 11
"The federal government is giving so much money to task forces to fight trafficking, which effectively means they just do prostitution stings. It creates really perverse incentives where we're actually encouraging the industry to go further underground."
The War on Whores. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 10
"The law is the operating system of our democracy, and you have to pay to see it. That's not much of a democracy."
"How can you call yourself a law man and think that there could possibly be anything wrong with making the law public?"
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 9
"In the 1920s, all he had to do is buy a used car and write the word taxi on it. And lo and behold, he was in business making money. Today it's entirely different."
"A taxi medallion in New York City costs over $700,000. In 1937, one could buy one for $10."
"The whole point of the medallion system is to keep insiders in and outsiders out."
Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 8
"The old guard are trying to hold on and penalize anyone who impedes their revenue streams. Crazy lawsuits against suburban housewives who had downloaded 20 songs, suing them for millions of dollars."
"The record companies never gave a damn about the artists anyway."
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 8
"The civil rights struggle is over and won. That does not mean there aren't major problems. But it's not a racial problem. It's not a legacy of slavery."
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 6
Writer and director Nickolas Gilbert won the CiVL Award for Advancing Human Respect in Media at the 2025 Collaboration Film Challenge with La Petite Mortimer. He returns with The Harvest Beast, a creative short that explores the spirit of cooperation through a Wes Anderson-inspired lens.
Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 6
"If you had magical powers, would you use them for good or to make you mountains of cash?"
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 5
"We often end up arresting s*x trafficking victims and then say, now that we've arrested you, we'll save you. It creates a situation where even victims who might be exploited are very fearful of talking to cops."
The War on Whores. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 4
"I was very frustrated with school. The teachers didn't know what they were talking about. The homework was a sham."
"Once I questioned the school, I questioned the society that built the school. I questioned the businesses the schools were training people for. I questioned the government that set up this whole structure."
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 3
"We had Mega Movies, a Netflix competitor. We had Megabox. It would give the artists 90% of their earnings. An online platform where they can sell directly to their fan base. How can we reinvent this whole copyright model and make it work for the artists and creators directly?"
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 2
"Once he broke the color line, it was all over. The others would be at an enormous disadvantage if they didn't also get black players."
"In the sports or the music industry where you see black excellence, you don't see any affirmative action. You don't see any lawsuits. What you do see is excellence."
Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools. Now streaming on CiVL.
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Jun 1
"Why not go as tough as you can? It's good for you, the prosecutor."
"He hadn't killed anybody, hadn't hurt anybody, hadn't stolen money. There's no reason he should be labeled a felon for doing what he did."
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 31
"15 cops. 15 cops to bust a 132 pound, 39 year old woman."
"Did they expect I was going to pull a machine gun out of my handbag? No. They were there for the show. They wanted to see a naked woman crying. That's not what they got with me."
The War on Whores. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 29
"They're locked out from our entire scientific legacy."
"It's a legacy that should belong to us as a commons, as a people, but instead it's been locked up."
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 29
"I couldn't care less about politics. Then I found out all these things firsthand, being subject to the abuse of power. Of course I wanted to replace the government."
"I will be remembered as somebody who fought mass surveillance with technology that gives you your freedom back."
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 28
"Milton Friedman didn't cure you, but the federal government did."
"Never say the federal government doesn't do anything."
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 26
"We were walking by the White House and he said, they don't let felons work there."
"He hadn't killed anybody, hadn't hurt anybody, hadn't stolen money. There's no reason he should be labeled a felon for doing what he did."
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. Now streaming on CiVL.
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May 25
"Winston and Julia were dangerous to decent society, and they got what they deserved. Justice was served."
"Is that really what happened in the story?"
"The lesson to be learned here: do not challenge authority."
The Edited. Now streaming on CiVL.
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