Librarians learn how to defend intellectual freedom and fight book bans

Librarians learn how to defend intellectual freedom and fight book bans

At “the world’s largest library event”,attendees are invited to climb atop a giant chair and read their favourite banned book.

  • byClaire Savage

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Ernest Hemingway masterpiece given trigger warning by publisher

Ernest Hemingway masterpiece given trigger warning by publisher

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.

  • byCraig Simpson
Qld police ‘reluctant to get involved’ in campaign to ban book

Qld police ‘reluctant to get involved’ in campaign to ban book

Documents show police were unwilling to be drawn into a conservative activist’s campaign against an award-winning graphic memoir about gender identity.

  • byMatt Dennien
Malaysia asks Interpol to help track down NY comedian who made MH370 joke

Malaysia asks Interpol to help track down NY comedian who made MH370 joke

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.

India threatened to shut down Twitter,co-founder Jack Dorsey says

India threatened to shut down Twitter,co-founder Jack Dorsey says

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.

  • byKanishka Singh andShilpa Jamkhandikar
Bible banned from US schools ‘due to vulgarity,violence’

Bible banned from US schools ‘due to vulgarity,violence’

The decision comes as conservative parent activists have sought to sow alarm about how sex and violence are talked about in schools.

  • bySam Metz
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Why is a 40-year-old Pink Floyd performance suddenly controversial?

Why is a 40-year-old Pink Floyd performance suddenly controversial?

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?

  • byNell Geraets
The show doesn’t go on:Chinese performers cancelled over ‘political orientation’

The show doesn’t go on:Chinese performers cancelled over ‘political orientation’

A Japanese choral,jazz shows,comedy. Some shows and those featuring foreign performers are attracting particular attention from the authorities.

  • byVivian Wang
Wikipedia stands its ground over Russian demands to remove war reports

Wikipedia stands its ground over Russian demands to remove war reports

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.

  • byFrank Bajak
Banning the Nazi salute opens a Pandora’s box

Banning the Nazi salute opens a Pandora’s box

We have a real crisis of imagination and ingenuity when the go-to solution in a democratic society is to ban forms of expression.

  • byLydia Khalil
Porn,power and the other p-word in conservative America
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Porn,power and the other p-word in conservative America

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.

  • byJulie Szego