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CensorshipInternational LiteratureTechnologyThe Colophon

Move fast and break things: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir offers a harrowing, highly personal peek behind the curtain at Meta

March 26, 2025March 27, 2025

If there's one thing that's certain about Wynn-Williams's highly personal, often scathing narrative: it's going to make a blockbuster movie.

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CensorshipThe Colophon

Goodreads and prior restraint: Bloom Books pulls an upcoming romance novel after criticism from early readers

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025

Most often, what these censorious online voices demonstrate is not moral rectitude but a complete inability to understand how to read fiction.

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CensorshipThe Colophon

Freedom to Read Week 2025: The Washington Post vs. Jeff Bezos

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

If a billionaire is in a position to dictate how the media does its job, there is no free press to speak of.

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CensorshipInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

Freedom to Read Week 2025: Ulysses by James Joyce

February 25, 2025February 28, 2025

Joyce's novel is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

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CanLitCensorshipThe Colophon

Freedom to Read Week 2025: When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025

Barbara Kay took to the pages of the National Post to complain about the government having "wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel."

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CensorshipThe Colophon

Freedom to Read Week 2025: On the enduring importance of standing up against attempts to suppress books

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025

As we are witnessing on a global scale, it is all too easy to lose the essential freedoms we in a democratic society take for granted.

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CanLitCensorshipNon-fictionThe Colophon

The sounds of silencing: In a new polemic, Ira Wells argues that censors are active on both the left and right

February 5, 2025February 6, 2025

Moral certitude makes for strange bedfellows.

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CensorshipPoliticsTechnologyThe Colophon

Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre: University of Winnipeg professor Peter Ives re-examines core principles in his new book, Rethinking Free Speech

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024

Ives distinguishes between the absolutism of Immanuel Kant and the more pragmatic views of John Stuart Mill.

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CensorshipMusicPoliticsThe Colophon

Recent legal decision around “Bling Bling” rapper only the latest attempt to criminalize rap lyrics in America

July 31, 2024August 15, 2024

If the First Amendment provides protection for every artistic endeavour except rap music, it then becomes impossible not to see this Constitutional provision as a racist instrument.

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BooksellingCensorshipThe Colophon

Recent incidents at Queen Books and Little Ghosts in Toronto shine a spotlight on the incursion of American-style transphobia into Canada

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

Public support for booksellers who are outspoken about their advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities seems strong.

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