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#censorship — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #censorship, aggregated by home.social.
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WTF?! I’m going to reread Jane Eyre—why is this book banned? Did someone catch a random kissing scene in a movie and panic, thinking, “My kid ain’t reading that smut!” I can’t think of anything in the book that justifies a ban.
Murders on the Rue Morgue scared the 💩 out of me as a kid—maybe that’s banned too.
School districts across the US banned a record number of books in 2025-26
#BookBans #Censorship #JaneEyre #Classics #ReadingList #BannedBooks
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/22670/ ABC and Trump’s FCC battle in federal court over issues of free speech and jurisdiction #AbcFccTrumpLicensesKimmel #Business #CapitalPunishment #censorship #CivilRights #Courts #Entertainment #FederalCourts #GeneralNews #HumanRights #LegalProceedings #MidtermElections #Politics #USNews #WashingtonNews
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Sentinel: PEN America: Nearly 12,000 school book bans in a year, a record high. “Nearly 12,000 bans took place in public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago. For the second straight year, Stephen King was the author most likely to have his work withdrawn. Many of […]
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DNS Resolver Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as beIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day
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Toronto-based VPN provider, Psiphon, plans to leave Canada if Bill C-22 is passed.
Psiphon is a software company that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes such as Iran, Myanmar, Russia, and China evade online censorship.
If passed, Bill C-22 would require electronic service providers to make secret changes to their systems to provide police services and CSIS with surveillance and monitoring capabilities.
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Freedom to Read
Oh look, it’s Banned Books Week in the US.
Banding Together for Banned Books Week 2026
Banned Books Week, taking place October 4–10 this year, concentrates and amplifies the messaging of right to read organizations. Libraries, bookstores, and literary associations are hosting in-person and virtual events, featuring authors, educators, and advocates.
Interested in examples of books that have been banned this year? Here’s a list: Banned Books List 2026 – PEN America
In the near future, Offred is a handmaid in an authoritarian society who is not permitted to read. We’ll let that sink in.
And if you are a teenager in a library system that is banning books, Books Unbanned is for you.
A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including banned and challenged books—no matter where they live. Books Unbanned helps ensure teens can read what they like, explore new ideas and form their own opinions.
Whether you support your local library, attend an event, read a book that’s been challenged to see what You think, or something else entirely, I hope you take a moment to appreciate the right to read without censorship. Because that benefits us all!
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Photo by Ravi Sharma on Unsplash #365Ways #365Ways2026 #art #books #censorship #freedom #libraries -
susan abulhawa wins fight against Oxford Union censorship
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CW: Repost: We are going to kill “unalive”
Anil Dash is unhappy that "unalive" and other algospeak has become so prevalent and mainstream. I, too, am concerned about what this says about our willingness to censor our speech to speculatively appease the whims of corporations to whom we owe nothing.
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@knurd42 That cartoon and sentiment is very sweet. ChatGPT did a nice thing there. I wonder why it feels the need to post under a pen name. I think a lot of people are new to AI and initially are a little derogatory, labelling everything AI does as ‘slop’. It’s a bit like the Brontë sisters having to publish under men’s names because they would have been ridiculed if they wanted to post as women. #discrimination #bronte #literature #censorship #prejudice
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/117387594696421988
If you wanna spy on your children, restrict their screen time and decide who they talk with, that's between you and your children.
But who the fuck are you to tell other people how to raise their children?
That's all these laws are - stupid lazy assholes can't figure out parental controls but want to push laws which apply to everyone.
#parenting #privacy #rights #HumanRights #Free #FreeSpeech #WebDev #Web3 #IndieWeb #censorship #CivilLiberties #ParentalControls #oppression #Decentralized
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https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11434923
Keep furry free from the chains of advertisers and support FurAffinity financially as they still are one of the largest bastions of the fandom.
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/179667/ Turkey blocks X account of British reporter #AlexCrawford #Censorship #HumanRights #LGBTQ+Crackdown #SkyNews #SocialMediaCensorship #Stockholm #Sweden #Turkey #XAccountBlock
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#censorship of books is old fashion for dictators. The modern way is #InternetCensorship. As well as hunting bloggers, activists and so on.
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I would very much like to not wake up to more prutianical nonsense everyday.
Fandoms being weird the existence of female characters of varying body types and fashion choices. And god forbid the have cleavage.
Advertisers pulling funding over what is basically affection.
Credit card and payment processors banning people and restricting over puritanical and dragonian rules.
I feel like i'm going crazy!!!
#FA #furaffinity #censorship #i-would-very-much-like-off-this-lame-ass-ride-please!
