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Youth Advisory Board: Free speech issues around the world
For the past six months the Index on Censorship Youth Advisory Board has attended monthly online meetings to debate free speech issues and completed tasks
Index award-winning GreatFire launches groundbreaking new site to test VPNs in China
Anti-censorship group GreatFire have launched a new service that will help internet users inside China live test how well different VPNs are working in the country
Why is academic freedom important?
Academic freedom has been the subject of many debates in recent months. With speakers regularly being no-platformed
Staging Shakespearean Dissent: plays that protest, provoke and slip by the censors
Saturday 23 April marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. To honour the occasion Index has put together a list of all things Shakespeare.
Student reading list: theatre and censorship
Index on Censorship magazine Index has compiled a reading list of articles from the magazine archives covering the censorship of theatre.
Youth Advisory Board discuss censorship of art
For this month's task the youth board were asked to write a blog post about a piece of art that has either caused controversy or been banned in their country
Parents petition to remove Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden from school reading lists
Parents and students at a high school in New Jersey have launched a petition to have books, including the play Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright
Thoughts policed: Max Wind-Cowie
Have we created a media culture where politicians fear voicing an opinion that’s not the party line? Max Wind-Cowie reports
Future imperfect: Jason DaPonte
Should concerns about privacy after the NSA revelations change the way we use the web? Jason DaPonte asks the experts about state spying, corporate control and what we can do to protect ourselves
My book and the school library: Norma Klein
Norma Klein, the American writer of children's books, describes how she successfully defended her Confessions of an Only Child before a school board meeting
Drawing out the dark side: Martin Rowson
When it comes to depicting war, humour can be a critic’s most dangerous weapon, says Martin Rowson as he trips through the history of cartoons
Index on Censorship magazine
Current issue: Does anonymity need to be defended?
The autumn 2016 Index on Censorship magazine explores anonymity through a range of in-depth features, interviews and illustrations from around the world. Contributors include former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, journalist John Lloyd, Bangladeshi blogger Ananya Azad and philosopher Julian Baggini. This issue also has a thoughtful essay by novelist Hilary Mantel and illustrations by Molly Crabapple.
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