At “the world’s largest library event”,attendees are invited to climb atop a giant chair and read their favourite banned book.
The decision to add a disclaimer to the works of the Nobel Prize-winner has raised concerns that classics of English literature are being treated like “cigarette packets” in need of health warnings.
Documents show police were unwilling to be drawn into a conservative activist’s campaign against an award-winning graphic memoir about gender identity.
New York-based Jocelyn Chia has stirred controversy after posting on social media a clip where she joked about the plane that went missing nine years ago.
Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey claims India said it would shut down the social network site unless it complied with orders to restrict certain accounts.
The decision comes as conservative parent activists have sought to sow alarm about how sex and violence are talked about in schools.
Roger Waters’ provocative performance of The Wall has been displayed on-stage for decades,so why has it suddenly attracted protests and a police investigation?
A Japanese choral,jazz shows,comedy. Some shows and those featuring foreign performers are attracting particular attention from the authorities.
A Moscow court has fined the non-profit $36,000,saying it had failed to heed requests to remove articles containing “false information” about the war in Ukraine.
We have a real crisis of imagination and ingenuity when the go-to solution in a democratic society is to ban forms of expression.
Reading about the sacking of a Florida school principal over a picture of Michelangelo’s David,I felt that familiar,“thank God we’re not America” smugness.