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Meet the Censored: Hitler
Can history itself violate community standards?
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Meet the Censored: Me?
The Elon Musk portion of the Twitter Files story meets its M. Night Shyamalan ending. On the WTF week to end all WTF weeks
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Meet the Censored: Paul Jay
When contacted by press, YouTube admirably reversed bans and content removals involving a Canadian broadcaster. But the episode reveals the limits of…
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Meet the Censored: Status Coup
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content
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Meet the Censored: Live Streamers
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content
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On the Miserable Necessity of Doing Censorship Stories in Pairs
"Meet the Censored" will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and…
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Meet the Censored: Andre Damon
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm
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Meet the Censored: Ford Fischer
The videographer is this week's entrant in a growing club of the digitally deleted
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Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea
Yes, the government is helping crack down on text messages and Facebook posts, but not to worry. At least your private thoughts are safe, right? Not so…
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Meet the Censored: Myanmar Writer Zaw Moe Shinn
A military junta shuts down the Internet every night, while plotting by day to impose draconian controls over dissent. A warning from Myanmar
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Meet the Censored: Abigail Shrier
Where is the line between boycott-based activism and corporate censorship?
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Meet the Censored: Katie Halper
The "Useful Idiots" co-host is dismissed from The Hill, which is a little too frank about the reason
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