anti-freedoms Ohio school board bans children's book for its highly offensive rainbow and unicorn images Carla Sinclair
filters Society of Vertebrate Paleontology forbid the word "bone" during online conference Mark Frauenfelder
censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow
fake news Royal bombshells, Obama's boozing daughter, and if Star Trek's Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow
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law City of Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups Cory Doctorow
trumpism CBD is a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that shows promise in epilepsy and pain therapy, so the DEA wants to class it with heroin Cory Doctorow