1. Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
2. Access Denied
   The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
3. Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
4. All Things Censored
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   A collection of prison essays and radio talks by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row since 1982.
5. America's last taboo
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
6. Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
7. Anarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   The organizers of Montreal's Anarchist Book Fair have banned Black Rose Books, who have been publishing anarchist books since the 1960s, from participating. The reason given is that Black Rose publishes
8. Anatomy of Censorship
   Why the Censors have it Wrong
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
9. Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1987   Published: 1989
   The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
10. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
11. Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
    A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
12. Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
13. Away with the gatekeepers!
    The bane of cultural appropriation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
14. Backlash as Google shores up great firewall of China
    Resource Type: Article
    Censoring the Internet.
15. The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1843
    The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
16. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
17. Banned Books Online
    Resource Type: Website
    A sampling of books which have been censored or subject to censorship attempts.
18. Banned in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
19. Banned in the Media
    A reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    From colonial times to the present, the media in America has been subject to censorship challenges and regulations. This comprehensive reference guide to media censorship provides in-depth coverage of each media format -- newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio, television, and the Internet -- all of which have been, and continue to be, battlegrounds for First Amendment issues. Each media format is examined in-depth, from its origins and history through its modern development, and features discussion of landmark incidents and cases. Foerstel, author of Banned in the U.S.A., the acclaimed reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries, offers a brief history of media censorship, examines in-depth the drama of seven landmark incidents, and includes 31 relevant court cases. Complementing the volume are personal interviews with prominent victims of media censorship, who give human voice to the struggle of the media to remain free, and an examination of censorship of the student press.
    
20. Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
21. 'Beijing's bitch'
    Beijing & Microsoft
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Putting profits ahead of human rights.
22. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    Resource Type: Article
    Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
23. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
24. The Best of The Nation
    Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An anthology of articles from The Nation.
25. Betrayal of Trust
    The Collapse of Global Public Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
26. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
27. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
28. Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
29. Blindspots in The News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
30. Books banned by governments, list of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
31. Books for Burning
    Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
32. Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
33. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
34. Burmese media combating censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
35. Buy Banned Books
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
36. Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Pederasty and pedophilia have been topics of debate in works about gay and straight history, given long-standing traditions of intergenerational sex between and among men and women. The right uses that fact to condemn all queers, particularly gay men, as predators of children.
37. Canadian Committee Against Customs Censorship
    Organization profile published 1988
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1988
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
38. Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
    Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
39. Canadian News Synthesis Project - March 1976
    Volume IV Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
40. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
41. Censorship
    A World Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Censorship: A World Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive view of censorship, from Ancient Egypt to those modern societies that claim to have abolished the practice. For each country in the world, the history of censorship is described and placed in context, and the media censored are examined: art, cyberspace, literature, music, the press, popular culture, radio, television, and the theatre, not to mention the censorship of language, the most fundamental censorship of all. Also included are surveys of major controversies and chronicles of resistance.Censorship will be an essential reference work for students of the many subjects touched by censorship and for all those who are interested in the history of and contemporary fate of freedom of expression.
    
42. Censorship
    A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Pointing out that censorship is undermining the goals of education and plaguing all areas of the curriculum, this collection of essays considers many areas in which students' right to read is being infringed. The collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the methods used by protesters to remove books and materials from classrooms and libraries and outlines the rationales behind censors' motivations.
43. Censorship and the School Library Media Centre
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Presents censored materials, censorship incidents, court cases, and federal legislation, including the children's Internet Protection Act.
44. Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    
45. Censorship Goes To School
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    
46. Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
47. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
48. Censorship in Islamic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
    
49. Censorship, Inc.
    The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest.
50. Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 2009
    This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
51. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
52. CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
53. Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1842
    The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
54. Committee on Censorship for the Arts
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
55. Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
56. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
57. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
58. Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
59. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
60. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
61. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
62. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
63. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
64. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
65. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
66. Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
67. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
68. The conspiracy to censor the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
69. Cowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West's Real Religion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A TV sports commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired by his public broadcasting employer, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), because of a series of tweets he posted about the violence committed historically by the Australian military.
70. Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
    The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
    * Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
    * Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
    * Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
    * Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
    * Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
71. Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
    The End of Free Speech?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
72. Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Perhaps we have foolishly consented to a reality where the most powerful people in the world get to control the information people consume in order to shut down dissent against a murderous and oppressive globe-spanning oligarchic empire.
73. Defending Pornography 
    Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
74. Democracy's Oxygen 
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
75. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
76. Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
77. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
    
78. Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
79. Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted 'Ag-Gag' Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities. Farming interests have publicly backed the campaign to outlaw recording: in fact, dairy industry lobbyists actually crafted the legislation that was later introduced by lawmakers.
80. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
81. Eyes With Legs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
82. Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
83. Facebook Shut Me Down
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
    
84. False Freedom
    Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
85. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
86. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
    And Important Facts to Know about Censors
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
87. First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
88. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
89. For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
90. Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Media based in countries the United States regards as enemies, such as Russia and China, even if they are privately owned, are required to register as "foreign agents." So are media which run reports critical of U.S. foreign policy, like Al Jazeera. Other state owned-media, like the BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, let alone Voice of America, are not required to register.
91. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
92. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
93. Free speech fights
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Free speech fights are conflicts over the right to speak freely, particularly involving the Industrial Workers of the World efforts in the early twentieth century to organize workers and publicly speak about labuor issues.
94. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
95. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
96. Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
97. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
    
98. Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
99. Freedom of Speech Under Siege
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1999
    Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
100. Freedom to Read Week
     Resource Type: Website
     Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
101. From Fatwa to Jihad 
     The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
102. Further Dialogue on Pornography
     Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1997
     The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
103. Girls Lean Back Everywhere
     The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
104. God's Spies
     Stories in Defiance of Oppression
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1999
     Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
105. Good Girls, Bad Girls
     Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
106. Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
107. Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
108. Hate speech in a plural society
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
109. Here We Go Again 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
110. Historic Film Withheld 36 Years
     Resource Type: Article
     
111. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     
112. In Defense of Free Speech
     It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
113. Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
     As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
114. Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
115. IntelligentSearch.ca
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2017
     A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
116. Interview with Ulli Diemer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1990
     Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
117. Into the Buzz Saw
     Resource Type: Book
     Accounts of journalists investigating stories which the power structure doesn't want investigated.
118. Is it already too late to say goodbye? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2022
     My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
119. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
     A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
120. Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
121. Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
122. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
123. JournalismSources.com
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2017
     A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
124. Journalists assaulted and censored
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
125. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
     Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
126. The left and the Porn Wars
     A Case Study in Sexual Politics
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     Published in Who's on Top?: The Politics of Heterosexuality, edited by H. Buchbinder et al. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1987
127. Legal decisions threaten press freedom
     Minus Five
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     
128. Libel Law is dangerous
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1992
     Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
129. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
130. Lies The Media Tell us
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
131. Malik, Kenan
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
132. Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
     Writers' statement on cartoons
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
133. Media Censorship in a Plural Context
     A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     
134. Media Censorship in the Middle East
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
135. Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
136. The Missing News 
     Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
137. Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would "remove the gloves" to track him down.
138. Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
139. Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
     Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
140. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
141. No platform or no democracy?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1996
     Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
     
142. NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls "fake news," but the Times ignores its own record of publishing "fake news."
143. Obscenity exposed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
144. On Freedom of the Press (5)
     Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
145. On Freedom of the Press (1)
     Prussian Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
146. On Freedom of the Press (2)
     Opponents of a Free Press
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
147. On Freedom of the Press (3)
     On the Assembly of the Estates
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
148. On Freedom of the Press (4)
     As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
149. On Freedom of the Press (6)
     Freedom in General
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
150. On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1842
     Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
151. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
152. Opposing Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
     
153. Orwell
     The War Broadcasts
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     
154. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
     Arms Trade
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
155. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
     Land seizures and land take-overs
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
156. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
     Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
157. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
     We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
     This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
     Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
     Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
     Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
158. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
     April 1 issue
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2017
     Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
159. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
     Their Interent or Ours?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
160. Our Generation
     Volume 13 Number 12
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     
161. Patent Folly
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1995
     The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
162. Patterns of Censorship Around the World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     
163. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
164. PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
165. PEN Centre
     Organization profile published 1986
     Resource Type: Organization
     First Published: 1986
     
166. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
     Resistance in Practice
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     
167. Planet of the Censoring Humans 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2020
     The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
168. Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
     A Response to Gail Dines
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
169. Pornography in a Free Society
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
170. Pornography and the Sex Censors
     A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1996
     The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
171. The Power of the Israel Lobby
     Two knights and a dragon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
     
172. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1984
     The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
173. Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
174. Protect the Freedom to Shock
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
     
175. Queer Progress
     From Homophobia to Homonationalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2016
     A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
176. Quotes about Free Speech
     Resource Type: Unclassified
     
177. 'Rachel' screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
178. Radical Digressions 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
     Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
     
179. Radical Digressions 1
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
     
180. Radical Digressions 2
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
     
181. Radical Digressions 4
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
     
182. Radical Digressions 5
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2008
     
183. Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
184. The real first casualty of war
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
185. The Red Menace 
     A libertarian socialist newsletter
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
     Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
     
186. Relentless Persistence
     Nonviolent Action in Latin America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
187. A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     David Finkel and I see eye to eye on most basics where Israel is concerned, and he is generous in praising my recently published Overcoming Zionism. For years I have known him to be a stalwart anti-Zionist and one of the best-informed people on the socialist left concerning this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
188. Respect is a Two-Way Street
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
189. Restricted Entry
     Censorship on Trial
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995
     
190. The Right to Offend
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
     Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
191. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
192. Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
193. The Secret Museum
     Pornography in Modern Culture
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
194. Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.
195. Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
196. Silenced
     International Journalists Expose Media Censorship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
     What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? Silenced provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.
197. Socialist Register 2006:
     Volume 42: Telling the Truth
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
198. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1980
     It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
199. Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2022
     Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
200. A Story About Making a Sex Movie
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
201. The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
202. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
203. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
     Resource Type: Article
     Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
204. Their Internet or Ours?
     Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
205. There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
206. Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN's Henchmen
     Sign the Petition to Remove Suazanne Nossel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Nossel's appointment may be seen as the most visible and overt symptom of Western subversion that goes back to the very founding of the "human rights" NGO’s
207. Throw it in the garbage myself
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1992
     I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
208. Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
209. To Name The Unnameable
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
210. Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     "Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
211. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
212. Tracking the News that Wasn't
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1996
     A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
213. Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
214. Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left 
     Resource Type: Article
     On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
215. Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
216. Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
217. Unveiled
     Art and Censorship in Iran
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
218. US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with the same treatment: indefinite detention without trial, and death.
219. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
     Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
220. The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
221. Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
222. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
223. What Johnny Shouldn't Read
     Textbook Censorship in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     
224. When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.
225. Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
226. Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
227. Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha – so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
228. The Witch-Hunters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
229. Women Against Censorship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
230. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1991
     Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
231. Writers in Prison
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
232. You can't police offence
     Politicians shouldn't try to outlaw psychological distress
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2022
     Delivering people from psychological distress is the business of therapists or priests, not lawmakers.
233. You Can't Read This
     Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2006
     Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
     

Experts on Censure in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Connexions
3. Ulli Diemer
4. Museum of Sex
5. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
6. Wikileaks
7. Barrie Zwicker