China: 60th anniversary censorship
I was going to write the definitive article about web censorship and the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, but then I noticed Rebecca MacKinnon already had.
Read it here
Shedding light on the Chilcot Inquiry
By Chris Ames
Today I am launching a new web-based project to monitor and comment on Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the British government’s role in the Iraq war. The website is called Iraq Inquiry Digest.
The idea is to make sure that this time –– unlike in previous Iraq-related establishment inquiries –– nothing gets missed. Gordon Brown got off to a bad start when he tried to set up a secret inquiry. But he largely got the inquiry that he wanted, with members that were handpicked according to criteria unknown to the rest of us.
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The respect agenda
Index on Censorship contributor Oliver Kamm is appalled by Yale University Press’s censorship of The Cartoons that Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, an account of the Danish Mohammed cartoons controversy. Yale decided to publish the book about the cartoons without, er, actually publishing the cartoons.
Oliver describes Yale’s decision as “craven”, and decries the newfound idea that “respect” for religion is a legitimate reason to curb free speech.
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Turkey: Staging of part-Kurdish play a half-step forward
Kerim Yildiz discusses how Turkey’s easing of restrictions on the use of Kurdish remains far from complete
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