Hacker News
- Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/ 77 comments
- Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions https://pen.org/local-news/ 119 comments
- Jack Petocz, the hS jr who fought against book bans & organized students across Florida to protest The Don’t Say Gay Bill, will be honored with the PEN/Benenson Freedom of Expression Courage Award. This Award is Devoted to exceptional acts of courage in the exercise of freedom of expression. https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-to-honor-florida-high-school-activist-jack-petocz-for-organizing-book-ban-and-dont-say-gay-protests-statewide/ 1859 comments upliftingnews
- PEN America launches a counter-summit ahead of Saudi's G20, in the wake of unaddressed human rights violations https://pen.org/event/pen-america-g20-counter-summit/ 11 comments geopolitics
- Deep Regret Over the Choice of Peter Handke for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature - PEN America https://pen.org/press-release/statement-nobel-prize-for-literature-2019/ 14 comments books
- All the 2018 PEN literary award finalists https://pen.org/2018finalists/ 5 comments books
- PEN America Literary Award longlists announced https://pen.org/2018longlists/ 4 comments books
- Mexican Journalists to U.S. Colleagues: 'We Never Believed This Day Would Come' http://pen.org/mexican-journalists-stand-solidarity-us-journalists/ 4 comments politics
- Aggressive Interrogation of Artists and Writers at U.S. Border - PEN America https://pen.org/interrogation-us-border/ 12 comments politics
- The 2017 Pen Literary Awards Winners https://pen.org/2017-pen-literary-awards-winners/ 3 comments books
- Tonight: Live Stream of Talk with Greenwald, Scheiner, James Bamford: "They're Watching Us: So What?" http://www.pen.org/theyre-watching-us 5 comments privacy
- Chilling effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor (.pdf/PEN) http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Chilling%20Effects_PEN%20American.pdf 3 comments privacy
- With media eye on N. Africa and Japan, more than 100 Chinese writers, lawyers, activists kidnapped, arrested, or harassed http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmmid/5642/prmid/1331 3 comments worldnews
Linking pages
- Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/24/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-unburnable-edition 1024 comments
- Minnesota Proposes to Defund Libraries That Host Drag Queen Story Time https://bookriot.com/2020/03/12/minnesota-proposes-to-defund-libraries-that-host-drag-queen-story-time/ 892 comments
- Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance – Diff https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/ 543 comments
- US states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach on race, history, sexual orientation, and gender | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/schools-teach-race-history-gender-b2008438.html 372 comments
- DeSantis threatens free speech protections with new defamation bill https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/03/06/desantis-threatens-first-amendment-florida-defamation-bill/11389752002/ 207 comments
- Florida High School Cancels 'Indecent,' a Play About Censorship on Broadway in 1923 | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/florida-high-school-censors-play-about-censorship-and-queer-jewish-love-180981437/ 169 comments
- Bills to ban US schools’ discussion of LGBTQ+ issues are threat to free speech – report | Freedom of speech | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/lgbtq-rights-ban-us-schools-republicans 152 comments
- Kansas lawmakers want schools to post class lessons online as a tool against critical race theory | KMUW https://www.kmuw.org/2022-02-15/kansas-lawmakers-want-schools-to-post-class-lessons-online-as-a-tool-against-critical-race-theory 127 comments
- New Proposed Legislation in Missouri To Censor Public Library Materials https://bookriot.com/2020/01/15/new-proposed-legislation-in-mo-to-censor-public-library-materials/ 108 comments
- A Florida school district added a parental 'advisory notice' to over 100 books https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-school-district-added-parental-advisory-notice-100-books-rcna41779 105 comments
- A Florida school district added a parental 'advisory notice' to over 100 books https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-school-district-added-parental-advisory-notice-100-books-rcna41779?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma 105 comments
- ‘A streak of extremism’: US book bans may increase in 2023 | Texas | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/us-book-bans-streak-of-extremism 64 comments
- US states move to stop prisons charging inmates for reading and video calls | Global development | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/13/us-states-move-to-stop-prisons-charging-inmates-for-reading-and-video-calls 39 comments
- Opinion | Want to impeach Trump? Go convince the voters. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/13/defenders-constitution-need-explain-trump-threat/ 31 comments
- US libraries face ‘unprecedented’ efforts to ban books on race and gender themes | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/us-libraries-book-ban-challenges-race-gender 29 comments
- Why Are Schools Banning Books? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whos-behind-the-push-to-ban-books-in-schools-180980818/ 29 comments
- Amanda Gorman poem no longer available to young readers at Florida school https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/05/23/amanda-gorman-poem-banned-florida-school/70250148007/ 28 comments
- Books bans and ‘gag orders’: the US schools crackdown no one asked for | Censorship | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/21/books-bans-gag-orders-suppress-discussion-racism-lgbtq-us-schools 26 comments
- Writers Resist: Hundreds to attend pre-inauguration protests http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Writers-Resist-Hundreds-to-attend-10838664.php 19 comments
- J.K. Rowling defends 'offensive and bigoted' Donald Trump's free speech - Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-rowling-trump-20160517-snap-story.html 12 comments