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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
More trouble at Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong newspaper with the arrest of Chan Pui-man for allegedly violating National Security Law. 18 June 2021 | Staff | Apple Daily…
Photo: Freshman Riley O’Keefe’s yearbook photo was edited to cover more of her chest. Dozens of other female students’ images were also altered. 25 May 2021 | Christina…