TEDChris

Edward Snowden. The Pope. A 12-year-old girl from a slum in Mumbai who can really... REALLY... explain to us why we need to let her help shape the future.

Really interesting point. One thing we've noticed is that when the talks exploded online, some speakers started trying to game the format, so to speak. We've become pretty sensitive to that. In talks recorded in the last year at our main conferences, it's much less evident. We're looking for substance over style, and really encourage speakers to give the talk their own authentic way.

We've held a few... some described here: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/13/ted-speakers-who-disagree-with-each-other/

...but could do with more. Ideas needed to be challenged, right? That's a growing emphasis in our new website launching soon.

There's a lot of misinformation out there on this one. eg. There were two talks by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake that we were accused of censoring. Simply not true. Long story... some of which I wrote about here in this note to Deepak Chopra. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-anderson/ted-censorship-consciousn_b_3115145.html

Nick Hanauer was another storm in a teacup. My version here: http://tedchris.posthaven.com/131417405

...and actually there was a huge Reddit discussion raised by that here: http://tedchris.posthaven.com/131417405

In general, it's fair to say the Internet is allergic to censorship. If some one claims censorship online, it's like shouting fire in a movie theater. People get hurt, whether or not it's true.

That's actually the question I'm personally thinking about more than any other right now. A 2-min answer here won't work... but this will be a big theme at our upcoming conference. I'll try to post links later to a couple of relevant talks we already ran.