Tag: Censorship
The Artists Crying ‘Censorship’ – The Atlantic
For the past few years, the right has worn itself out decrying “cancel culture”—claiming that left-wing mobs have destroyed the career of artists, writers, and freethinkers—and equating it with censorship. Liberals have typically been the first to point out that this is absurd. If someone says or does something that offends your sensibilities, you are of course free to avoid supporting that person’s professional or creative endeavors with your time and money. That is not censorship—it’s merely a
Why It’s Important to Defend Representative Rashida Tlaib Against Censure, Whether or Not We Agree With Her
True to its increasingly repressive and authoritarian agenda, the House GOP Conference moved this week to censure my colleague Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for political comments she made that were clearly protected under the First Amendment and the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution. Although I told Representative Tlaib I strongly disagreed with her benign interpretation of the offending phrase (“from the river to the sea”), I rose on the House floor nonetheless to defend her as a Member against … Read more
Solidarity With Palestine Is Not a Crime
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October 16, 2023
Governments, news outlets, and major corporations are making it clear: It is not acceptable to support Palestine right now.
Riot police arrest a protester during a banned demonstration in solidarity with Palestine at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, on October 14, 2023
(Firas Abdullah / Abaca / Sipa USA via AP)
Nearly 40 years ago, in a London Review of Books essay titled “Permission to Narrate,” Palestinian-American author and intellectual
Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide
Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.
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‘Censorship’ charged after clerical abuse billboard is removed as pope arrives in Portugal – POLITICO
Activists accused a Portuguese municipality of “illegal censorship” after it removed a billboard denouncing sexual abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church just as Pope Francis arrived in the country to celebrate World Youth Day.
On Wednesday afternoon, the municipality of Oeiras ordered the removal of the billboard that said: “4800+ children abused by the Catholic Church in Portugal.” Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon on Wednesday for a five-day visit to the country that is being overshadowed by the abuse
Vivek Ramaswamy Doubles Down on Pledge to Pardon Trump, Says ‘Censorship’ to Blame for January 6
Ramaswamy added that Trump is not responsible for the mob of his supporters storming the Capitol in January 2021.
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Russia’s Online Censorship Has Surged During Ukraine War
What’s the difference between Russia’s internet before and after the invasion of Ukraine? The answer: a thirtyfold increase in censorship.
That was the finding of a report published on Wednesday by Citizen Lab, a group from the University of Toronto that studies online censorship in authoritarian countries. The new report was one of the first attempts to quantify the extent of Russian internet censorship since the war began in February 2022.
To compile its findings, Citizen Lab analyzed more than
How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights
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Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Early in 2020, on the same day that a frightening new illness officially got the name Covid-19, a team of scientists from the United States and China released critical data showing how quickly the virus was spreading, and who was dying.
The study was cited in health warnings around the world and appeared to be a model of international collaboration in a moment of crisis.
Within days, though, the researchers quietly withdrew the paper, which was replaced online by a