From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
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At the heart of the dispute between the BSA and The Platform is an outdated media law that hasn’t adapted to the online streaming era.
Online abuse designed to humiliate, coerce or silence women and minority politicians is taking its toll. With a general election next year, the rules have to change.
Pressuring broadcasters by leveraging the powers of the Federal Communications Commission occurs no matter which party controls the White House.
A study of more than 1,600 books suggests that book ban advocates may not look past the cover art.
Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.
Most major US media companies have been targeted by Trump this year alone, along with many individual journalists. It’s the destruction of the fourth estate.
President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.
A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.
There’s another, lesser-known reason Trump’s attacks on the important institution have ramped up in recent months.
Wikipedia is built on a “neutral point of view”. But who decides what neutral means?
The Trump administration canceled hundreds of grants it said amounted to federal censorship, implying that those conducting misinformation research are enemies of the First Amendment. This isn’t true.
Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney Film Festival retrospective.
The Trump administration isn’t resorting to official censorship. Instead, it’s using less blatant – and more effective – ways to suppress dissent.
The tools that feminist science studies have developed are critical to the sciences because they ask new questions, and develop new methodologies.
The bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – and even played an indirect role in its dissolution.
The law is the balance point between limiting hate speech and misinformation and keeping censorship in check. Here’s what could happen if Congress kicks it out from under the internet.
Media organisations in former Soviet states are beginning to feel the bite of US foreign funding cuts.
Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
Hate speech can harm, but where does art cross the line from thought-provoking into genuinely harmful?
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Sessional Academic, Children's Literature and Creative Writing, Victoria University
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Research Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, Vanderbilt University
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Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
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Associate Professor, Publishing, University of Pretoria
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