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Japan: Trump Administration: Absurd Censorship

Dorothy Phoenix - October 4, 2025. Published in Tokyo Shimbun

Vigilance in safeguarding free speech against its further decline must be strengthened.

Canada: The Media Is Yielding to Trump: A MAGA Shift Is Underway

Reg Moss - October 2, 2025. Published in Le Journal de Montreal

Media control is indispensable for an authoritarian regime.

Germany: Trump’s Ban on Words Is Literally Wrong

Fiona Garratt - March 15, 2025. Published in Die Tageszeitung

[A] dangerous reshaping of history is already in progress.

México: Trump and His Style of Government

Stephen Routledge - March 12, 2025. Published in El Heraldo de México

Spain: Great Speech: Not Anti-European, but Anti-Woke

Patricia Simoni - February 18, 2025. Published in La Razon

JD Vance sang a hymn to democracy, arguing that it cannot be based on censorship of dissenting opinions.

Japan: Will Banning Fact-Checking Preserve Neutrality?

Dorothy Phoenix - January 27, 2025. Published in Sankei Shimbun

Meta, which operates social networking sites Facebook and Instagram, is discontinuing its U.S. fact-checking system[.]

Russia: A Library Shelf, a Reading Room – Now They Are Trenches Too*

Robin Koerner - January 7, 2024. Published in Russia Today

[T]he main victims, of course, are the books.

Cuba: Juneteenth and the Vestiges of Slavery in the US

Tom Walker - June 29, 2023. Published in Prensa Latina

[W]arnings about the manifestations of a growing racism are intensifying.

Portugal: The Religious Right and the Leftist ‘Woke’ Walk into a Bar; This Is What Happens

Robin Koerner - June 24, 2023. Published in SAPO

The rewriting of books from the past ... is an indefensible cultural crime.

Spain: Torquemada in the US*

Marta Quirós Alarcón - May 12, 2023. Published in El Periódico

[I]n some states ... it is easier to buy a gun than it is to read a book freely in a library.

U.K.: The Guardian View on US Book Bans: Time To Fight Back

Lalatendu Das - April 14, 2023. Published in The Guardian

Censorship is surging thanks to an organized rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues.

U.K.: The Guardian View on China’s Censors: the Sense of an (Acceptable) Ending

Lalatendu Das - August 25, 2022. Published in The Guardian

In more recent times, Hollywood has embraced amorality, but insisted on a triumph for uncomplicated good in movies.

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