A Christian group hopes to set fire to library copies of Francesca Lia Block's novel about a gay boy coming of age.
By Laura Miller Jun 16, 2009
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A new medium hits the big time: No tweeting about Tiananmen, declare the commissars
By Andrew Leonard
June 2, 2009
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Conservatives have been warning for almost two years that Democrats intend to censor talk radio, but the conspiracy they see is only imaginary.
By Alex Koppelman
November 20, 2008
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Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll to create the generation gap?
By Laura Miller
March 24, 2008
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Iran's women's magazine: We have not read the last page.
By Lynn Harris
February 13, 2008
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The cellular carrier censors a NARAL Pro-Choice text-messaging program, then backpedals.
By Carol Lloyd
September 27, 2007
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Aheda Zanetti says the widely censored "Opus" comic strip featuring her creation is "fantastic" and not the least bit offensive.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
September 5, 2007
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A note from the China expert who broke the story, in the English-language press, that Lu Xun's works are being censored in Chinese high school textbooks
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2007
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The war against open access to taxpayer-funded scientific research heats up. Let the mocking begin.
By Andrew Leonard
August 28, 2007
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Eddie Vedder sang "George Bush, leave this world alone" -- but AT&T cut the lyric from its webcast. By mistake, it says.
By Farhad Manjoo
August 8, 2007
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Nick Young's China Development Brief may have understood the Middle Kingdom a bit too well.
By Andrew Leonard
July 12, 2007
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Is sexual innuendo in traditional folk tales too much for Hamas to handle?
By Catherine Price
March 6, 2007
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Let a hundred blogs about cancer bloom, and then figure out how to seduce the "e-fluencers."
By Andrew Leonard
February 14, 2007
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A PBS documentary prudishly blurs out a dying woman's nipples.
By Catherine Price
January 23, 2007
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Women stage "nurse-ins," breast-feeding their children at airports around the country.
By Sarah Goldstein
November 22, 2006
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Press freedom in China? The WTO is not interested
By Andrew Leonard
September 11, 2006
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Critics argue that the U.K.'s criminalization of violent porn does more harm than good.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
September 1, 2006
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By caving in to fanatics over the Danish cartoons, the West has shown that it is not only gutless but brainless.
By Doug Marlette
February 24, 2006
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Bill Gates & Co. censor a Chinese blogger. What could be more natural?
By Andrew Leonard
January 5, 2006
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Even as American corporations abet thought control, a surging civil society will not be denied.
By Andrew Leonard
December 16, 2005
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America's most popular Internet companies are helping China crack down on free speech.
By Stephan Faris
December 16, 2005
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Publisher slams New York Times for omitting book title with B-word.
By Lynn Harris
December 7, 2005
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Activists who beat back the FCC on media consolidation are dismayed to find former allies leading an unprecedented effort to restrict radio and TV content.
By Eric Boehlert
April 14, 2005
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The freewheeling network of Web sites has a history of clashing with authority. But usually it knows who is trying to shut it up.
By Mathew Honan
November 9, 2004
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"Guantanamo," now playing in New York, warns that the liberties the U.S. government has taken abroad in the name of homeland security present grave threats to our own civil liberties.
By James P. Pinkerton
October 12, 2004