Freedom of speech and creativity continued to face acute threats in 2019, but artists and curators continue to be at the forefront of the dangerous...
Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2019 (Hyperallergic)
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Mr X tries to censor reports of sexual assault allegations (The Times)
A multimillionaire at the centre of a police investigation over sexual assault allegations is trying to censor newspaper reports, though he is...
Woman Fired For Saying ‘Men Cannot Change Into Women,’ Judge Sides With Her Employer (Opposing Views)
An employee of a leading think tank was fired for publicly arguing that transgender women were not real women. Maya Forstater was a tax expert for...
J.K. Rowling is a TERF, Surprising Virtually No One (The Blemish)
People have long speculated that J.K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter and nothing else of note since, is secretly a transphobe. Until today, the...
In Britain, saying sex is immutable can be a sackable offence (The Economist)
Another explosion in the gender wars went off on December 18th, when an employment tribunal in London ruled that stating “gender-critical”...
There’s a new free speech crisis gripping the world—and governments aren’t helping (Prospect)
Scottish playwright Jo Clifford is no stranger to controversy. Her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, casts Jesus as a trans...
JK Rowling ‘stands with’ Maya Forstater in tweet after tax expert is sacked over trans views (Evening Standard)
JK Rowling is among those who have defended a tax expert who lost a landmark employment law ruling about her views on gender identity. The Harry...
Judge rules against researcher who lost job over transgender tweets (The Guardian)
A researcher who lost her job at a thinktank after tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex has lost a test case because...
Slander, shame, jail, divide and kill: how to silence an environmentalist in five easy steps (Independent)
Venice is drowning, Brazil is burning, the ice caps are melting. With these stark realities, the age of climate change denial might finally be...
Judge makes preliminary ruling in Carole Cadwalladr libel case (The Guardian)
A judge has issued a preliminary ruling in a libel action against the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and warned that broadcasts and...
Freedom and the Fourth Estate (Griffith University)
Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg spoke at an event held by Griffith University entitled Freedom and the Fourth Estate, covered on the University’s youtube channel.
BuzzFeed legal case shows Dublin’s draw for foreign libel claimants (The Irish Times)
Dublin is better known for attracting tech companies than libel claimants. But a US self-help guru’s lawsuit against an American news site has...
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