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Censorship

July 2024

  • Three states in Brazil banned Jeferson Tenorio’s book, ‘O Avesso da Pele,’ published in the UK as ‘The Dark Side of Skin.’

    Brazil’s unparalleled spate of book bans is a page out of US culture wars

    A series of bans on volumes with race, gender and LGBTQ+ themes have proliferated in recent years

June 2024

  • Kenan Malik

    Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik
  • Arifa Akbar

    If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres

    Arifa Akbar
  • Six circles with headshots of supreme court justices, with 6 under "conservative bloc" and three under "liberal bloc". Six of the headshots are in color, with three grayed out.

    US supreme court allows government to request removal of misinformation on social media

  • Rock formations in Skazka Canyon, Kyrgyzstan

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

  • The Audio Long Read
    Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison – podcast

  • We watched Ivy League law reviews censor Palestinian scholars first-hand

    Erika Lopez and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
  • Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books because it dislikes ideas within

May 2024

  • Man in a suit and tie looks concerned

    Rights groups urge Meta shareholders to end pro-Palestinian content ‘censorship’

  • Illustration of hand stopping speech bubble of female speaker

    Australia’s populist right embraces unconstrained freedom of expression – but only when it suits them

    Julianne Schultz
  • A lawn full of tents, with a handmade sign in the foreground that says Divest, and red spray paint on a wall beyond the tents that says All Zionists.

    Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism. Critics say they could violate free speech

  • Brian Logan

    Artists shouldn’t be political? Here’s a show that challenges Britain’s creeping censorship

    Brian Logan
  • YouTube blocks protest anthem in Hong Kong after court order banning the song

  • Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death

  • The long read
    Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

  • Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech

  • Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government

  • Italian government accused of using defamation law to silence intellectuals

  • Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report

April 2024

  • A women holds up placard during a rally to a call for action to end violence against women. The placard reads: 'How many of us have to die?’

    Albanese calls for debate on blocking online misogynistic content at snap national cabinet meeting

    Labor to focus on online harms threatening women’s safety as others call for further needs-based funding and bail reform
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