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Last year, there were 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services, according to the American Library Association. Photo: The Nashville Public Library’s banned books library card 06 April 2022 | CNN Staff The Nashville Public Library (NPL) is hoping to give out 5,000 free “banned books” library cards to local readers by…
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We have traveled a long and tortuous road from the ‘Sanity Clause’ to ‘Catch-22’ to Elon Musk’s De Facto Town Square of World Freedom Graphic: Twitterville: The Town Square of World Freedom. Graphic by James Porteous UPDATE: 19 April 2022 The day after posting this item to various anti-social platforms I can offer wonderful, first-hand…
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Don’t dare say that Hedges and Martin were ‘deplatformed.’ The entire archives of their RT programs were erased from YouTube. ADDED Below: The Progressive Misleadership Class (w/ Chris Hedges) (video) Bad Faith site 31 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media In the video below, Abby Martin explains how she arrived on RT to…
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Ukraine’s foreign minister has called on countries to ban the use of the letter “Z” as a symbol of the Russian war on his country. Photo: A T-shirt with the letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military, is displayed at a street souvenir shop in St Petersburg (AP) (cropped) 30 March…
On 27 September 1968, with the opening of Hair, the curtain fell on centuries of theatre censorship. Photo: 27 September 2018 | Sarah Lee | BBC News On 27 September 1968 the curtain fell on centuries of theatre censorship. Hours later, a cast of long-haired young actors took to the stage in a show depicting…
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Congressional hearings on “extremist content” on the internet were replete with demands for social media companies to take decisive action in censoring “harmful content.” 21 NOVEMBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 21 November 2017 | Trevon Austin| WSWS “All but admitting that Google is engaged in censorship, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company…
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They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it forbids actors seeking to capture a play’s essence from smoking even prop cigarettes onstage. 10 November 2021 | Jacob Serebrin | The Canadian Press via Toronto Star MONTREAL – A Quebec court judge has upheld fines issued to three Quebec City theatres where…
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It is bizarrely easy for authorities to ‘remove’ material from the Chinese ‘internet.’ Offending material can disappear within seconds of being posted. Or, as in this case, retroactively. 30 August 2021 | EAMON BARRETT | Fortune Late on Thursday evening, China’s video streaming giants scrubbed their archives of anything to do with Zhao Wei—a billionaire…
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A self-described “professional square,” he fell in love with the show, and worked with its writers to tweak questionable material. Cast members called him “Dr. No.” Photo: William G. Clotworthy shortly before his retirement in 1991 from NBC, where his responsibilities included serving as the in-house censor for “Saturday Night Live.”Credit…via Clotworthy Family 27 August…
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Photo: ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES The proposed Film Censorship Ordinance gives the city’s censors wider powers and increases the maximum jail sentence to three years for illegal screenings. 24 August 2021 | Abid Rahman | Hollywood Reporter Hong Kong, once the most vibrant and creative film production hub in East Asia, is set to institute tougher…
Photo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy As an English-speaker in Europe I must say I was surprised (and disappointed) to discover that, in some countries, such as Italy and Germany, almost all films seemed to be dubbed into the…
Photo: Lam Man-chung, executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, applauds colleagues on the paper’s last day. Photograph: Lam Yik/Reuters 27 June 2021 | Anonymous | Guardian A Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city’s most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Its senior executives arrested, companies charged, and accounts frozen, the paper survived for…
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