Take our quiz to see how well you know your ‘complicity’ facts
Quiz: How well do you know your ‘complicity’ facts?
read more
CATEGORY: Volume 49.01 Spring 2020
In emergencies we give away our essential freedoms lightly. Do we need to rethink?
As governments look into contact tracing apps to identify and isolate people with coronavirus, Rachael Jolley discusses whether signing up to apps – and other actions we take online and off – make us complicit in giving away our freedoms
Podcast: Complicity with Mary Ellen Klas, Moa Petersén and Noelle Mateer
The spring 2020 Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Mary Ellen Klas, Moa Petersén and Noelle Mateer discusses surveillance in China, the Swedish trend to put microchips under the skin and the worsening media environment in the USA as a result of coronavirus
Will international companies take on Chinese censorship after the pandemic?
Will international companies take on China’s attitude to censorship after the pandemic? Charlotte Middlehurst reports
“Anyone could be the next Li Wenliang”
A Chinese writer explains what it’s like living in a country where information is tightly controlled, and misinformation rife, during the coronavirus crisis
Contents – Complicity: Why and when we chose to censor ourselves and give away our privacy
The spring 2020 issue of the magazine looks at the different ways in which we as individuals might give away our own freedoms, whether we want to or not
Silencing the Spanish media
Poor job prospects and a deeply divided society are stopping Spanish journalists covering certain subjects, reports Silvia Nortes
Complicity
What role do we play in our own free speech issues? This is the question we pose in the Index on Censorship spring 2020 magazine. From the journalists who self-censor and the academics who don’t stand up to their arrested colleagues to the average person who shares lots of data with a third party, we are all playing a role in giving away some of our basic rights, information and privacy. Whether we don’t realise we are doing it, we don’t have much other choice or we simply think the trade is worth making, we can be complicit in letting our own rights erode. The ways we are complicit are multiple. Noelle Mateer offers a personal account about living in Beijing under a landlord who embraced the growing trend for video cameras at home. Nathalie Rothschild introduces us to the Swedes who are willingly having microchips inserted under their skin. Is this a great way to keep your own data very, very close to you or a gateway to further data exploitation? Helen Lewis talks about how our fears to enter certain heated discussions might be making vulnerable groups more vulnerable. And Mark Frary tests out the apps to see just how much we are giving away. Elsewhere Stephen Woodman talks to Colombian journalists living in fear of drug cartels. We also publish extracts from a Brazilian documentary that was censored by Jair Bolsonaro, plus a short written exclusively for the magazine by Najwa Bin Shatwan.