“Put your hand up if you’re concerned at the moment about facial recognition”
Autumn magazine launch: Facial recogniton presents perils for privacy
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US librarian feared people would spit in her food over library books
Libraries are often the first place children experience the joy of reading. But what happens when a community attempts to censor the collection so that it reflects just one worldview?
Swearing is fucking vital for free speech
Why is swearing offensive? Is fuck only a swearword because we’ve all agreed that it is? Are there any benefits of swearing? Would the regulation of swearing compromise the freedom of expression of those being regulated?
This week at Index: Banned Books Week is upon us
Banned Books Week kicks off on Sunday
In a country that keeps its media under a dome, Belarus’s independent journalists face mounting fines
Country regularly performs badly on rankings for media freedom
Playlist: Beats and borders
The autumn 2019 Index on Censorship magazine examines how border officials are demanding access to individuals’ social media accounts at frontiers around the world.
YA writer inspired by “lost” books to write latest novel
When Dave Connis worked in his local library in Tennessee, contentious books would frequently disappear. They would, he told Index, just “never come back” and instead be “lost” to the world.
Arthur Miller’s The Sin of Power
The American playwright and author Arthur Miller wrote for Index Magazine in 1978 about The Sin of Power. Here we reproduce that article for the first time on our website.
This week at Index: Border forces want to be your social media friend
Watch what you say. Border forces are following you online.
Big Brother at the border
Editor-in-chief Rachael Jolley argues in the autumn 2019 issue of Index on Censorship magazine that travel restrictions and snooping into your social media at the frontier are new ways of suppressing ideas