The week in free expression: 2 8 August 2025 – Index on Censorship
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The week in free expression: 2 8 August 2025 Index on Censorship
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- The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz - The Guardian - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- Times Video Game Censorship Triggered The Streisand Effect - Game Rant - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- How censorship is harming your relationship with your sexual health - The Independent - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- Why Did Kyrgyzstan Ban Anime? Exploring the New Wave of Content Censorship - Vocal - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- Censorship and the Lie of "Local Control" - Book Riot - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- XVideos and Bang Bros sue Florida over age verification. Protection or censorship? - Red Hot Cyber - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- John Abraham thinks Tehran wouldn't have passed censorship to be shown in theaters; Here's why - OTTPlay - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- Nearly 90% of Iranians now use a VPN to bypass internet censorship here's everything we know - TechRadar - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- Thousands of games have been censored from major platforms, with LGBTQIA+ creators caught in the crossfire - The Conversation - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- Behold the Fall of American Greatness at the Smithsonian Institution - National Coalition Against Censorship - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier - Polygon - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- The Online Safety Act Has Nothing to Do With Child Safety and Everything to Do With Censorship - Novara Media - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- Predictably, The Recent Attempt To Censor Games Is Now Targeting Anything And Everything - TheGamer - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- War on Words: The Free Speech Recession Is Not Over - The Daily Economy - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- Is Colonizing the Moon Racist? Plus, Russiagate And The Censorship Industrial Complex (ft. Mike Benz) - FOX News Radio - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]
- The Trump administration doesnt need to go to Brazil to find government censorship. It can look in a mirror. - FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights... - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous - AP News - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Alice Cooper: We had censors breathing down our necks every inch of the way - the-independent.com - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Musk vs. Modi: Inside the battle over India's internet censorship - MSN - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- 9 Artists on How Censorship Impacted Their Work - Book Riot - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Chinas botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure - theregister.com - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Tackling Transnational Repression in the UK Working Group - Index on Censorship - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Musk vs. Modi: Inside the battle over India's internet censorship - BusinessLine - August 6th, 2025 [August 6th, 2025]
- Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act a threat to public debate - The Guardian - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- US greatly concerned about free speech in Britain - The Telegraph - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- GOG preservationists hit back at "censorship in gaming" by making a bunch of notable NSFW games free-to-own for a limited time: "If a... - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- The week in whoppers: Kathy Hochul bombs out defending Zohran Mamdani, UK's Keir Starmer gaslights on censorship and more - New York Post - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- X accuses UK of increasing censorship with its new online laws - Cybernews - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- Food Delivery: The Filipino documentary film that exposes China - Lowy Institute - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- 13-game giveaway: GOG is giving away a free game bundle for a limited time to protest censorship in gaming - Notebookcheck - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- GOG protests games censorship by giving away 13 adult games: 'We are fighting back' - TweakTown - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- An online campaign sparked mass NSFW game takedowns. Then the backlash began - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- 'American Dad!' Season 20's Biggest Change Is Exactly What the Hit Sitcom Needs Right Now - Collider - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- U.K.s Online Safety Act Censors the InternetA Preview of U.S. Proposals - R Street Institute - August 3rd, 2025 [August 3rd, 2025]
- Mastercard Responds To Censorship Allegations After Forcing Storefronts To Remove Adult Games - GameSpot - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- The UK's censorship catastrophe is just the beginning - User Mag | Taylor Lorenz - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec - Freedom of the Press Foundation - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Art Spiegelman, John Waters and Other Banned Artists on How Censorship Changed Them - The New York Times - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Gamesand Theyre Fighting Back - WIRED - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Englands new free speech law comes into force what it means for universities - The Conversation - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Russia: Internet Blocking, Disruptions and Increasing Isolation - Human Rights Watch - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Aggro Crab and IGDA speak out on game censorship, as Nier creators 2024 warning resurfaces - GosuGamers - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- The U.K. Keeps Threatening To Censor American Tech Companies - Reason Magazine - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Elon Musks X accuses Britain of censorship with online safety laws - The Telegraph - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign - Engadget - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Britain is Losing its Free Speech, and America Could be Next - Current Affairs.org - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Dhadak 2 Director Shazia Iqbal on Censorship and Brownface | THR India - The Hollywood Reporter India - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- The Anti-Book Ban Laws Passed in 2025 (& What They Mean): Book Censorship News, August 1, 2025 - Book Riot - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- International Game Developers Association Reacts To Censorship On Steam And Itch.Io - DualShockers - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- THE CENSORSHIP SHOW With Tim Barnes to be Presented by QPL's Culture Connection - BroadwayWorld.com - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Trump's FTC is spreading lies about trans people. This bill would let it wipe them off the internet - Fast Company - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Trump-Harvard crossfire: University accused of censorship after scrapping Palestine-themed journal issue - Malay Mail - August 1st, 2025 [August 1st, 2025]
- Biden White House, EU being probed over whether they pressured Spotify to censor: Report | RISING - The Hill - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Does a new Virginia law aimed at protecting kids set a precedent for censorship? Experts weigh in - WTOP - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Censorship from Both Directions: PW Talks with Ira Wells - Publishers Weekly - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia | HRW - Human Rights Watch - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- The Whole Story Behind a Change.org Petition Started Against Videogame Censorship - GameGrin - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Opinion: In Alberta schools, books arent the threat censorship is - Edmonton Journal - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- U.S. House asks Spotify to provide documents from various govts. that ordered censorship (SPOT:NYSE) - Seeking Alpha - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaringand Threaten the Open Internet - WIRED - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- YouTube announces automatic AI age verification for US amidst fears of censorship in wake of UK's Online Safety Act - Notebookcheck - July 30th, 2025 [July 30th, 2025]
- Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at whats happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan - The Guardian - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Stopped Comedy Central from Censoring Trump's Genitals - Consequence of Sound - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship - Polygon - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io - The Guardian - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Renowned Contemporary Artist Amy Sherald Cancels Major Exhibition at the Smithsonian, Citing Censorship - bet.com - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Op-Ed | This Is What Censorship Looks Like In A National Park - National Parks Traveler - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Trust and safety workers on why they're not speaking out - Platformer - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- From Big Brother to Brave New Algorithm: The Rise of Sovereign AI and the New Age of Censorship - Modern Diplomacy - July 28th, 2025 [July 28th, 2025]
- Letter to the Editor: Who in America isn't letting them live in peace? - Amarillo Globe-News - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- The Art World Confronts a New Era of Censorship in the U.S. - observer.com - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Citing censorship concerns, Georgia-born artist cancels show at Smithsonian - AJC.com - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Artist to withdraw exhibit from National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns - Politico - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Columbia genocide scholar may quit school over censorship on Israel, antisemitism - The Times of Israel - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian exhibition over censorship - ArtReview - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Amy Sherald Called Off Her Smithsonian Show Over Censorship - The Cut - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian art show over censorship of trans-themed painting - TheGrio - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- The week in free expression: 19 25 July 2025 - Index on Censorship - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Trump's order to block 'woke' AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots - AP News - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
- Amy Sherald Cancels Major Smithsonian Show Over Censorship Concerns - hypebeast.com - July 27th, 2025 [July 27th, 2025]
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