Laws like the Florida bill will cause harm whether or not direct censorship actually takes place.
Tag: Censorship
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China Sentences Leading Rights Activists to 14 and 12 Years in Prison
Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were detained after organizing a small seaside gathering of activists to discuss human rights. Their lengthy sentences point to Beijing’s intolerance of dissent.
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The Hideous Resurrection of the Comstock Act
How the right is using a 150-year-old law to try to ban abortion pills.
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Evan Gershkovich Covered Repressed Russian Journalists. Now They Are Covering Him.
Evan Gershkovich’s work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on the efforts by Russians to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen attack on press freedom.