Chinese expatriates in the United States are elated but nervous as they watch the protests at home. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Censorship”
How Iranians in New York Are Helping the Protests Abroad
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2022
“It’s really been a very long process of suffering that has led to this moment,” one activist said. Source: New York Times
How the Brooklyn Library Helped Fight Book Bans in Oklahoma
By Gotham Rex on September 12, 2022
An Oklahoma teacher left her job after she told her students how to access the library’s banned books program. Source: New York Times
The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates
By Gotham Rex on August 15, 2022
After the attack, writers and world leaders hailed Rushdie as a symbol of free expression. But the battle lines around his novel “The Satanic Verses” were never cleanly drawn. Source: New York Times
How New Yorkers Push the Limits
By Gotham Rex on August 3, 2022
From speed zones to traffic crossings to parking rules, city residents try to get away with going a little faster, or cutting it close, or being a little later. Source: New York Times
New York Prison Officials Clip Map From Banned Book on Attica Riot
By Gotham Rex on August 1, 2022
In response to the author’s First Amendment lawsuit, officials said the alteration was necessary for “security reasons.” Source: New York Times
Why New York’s a Lonely Town, Especially Since Covid
By Gotham Rex on April 20, 2022
We are still learning what the effects of prolonged isolation could be in a city where a million people live alone. Source: New York Times
Fred Jordan, Publisher of Taboo-Breaking Books, Dies at 95
By Gotham Rex on May 2, 2021
At Grove Press, he and Barney Rosset challenged censors as they popularized D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others. Source: New York Times
$325,000 Settlement for Teacher Over Trump References Removed From Yearbook
By Gotham Rex on March 21, 2021
A New Jersey teacher was suspended in 2017 after, she says, the school administration told her to remove a reference to Mr. Trump from a student’s shirt in a photo. Source: New York Times
Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest
By Gotham Rex on December 18, 2020
U.S. prosecutors have charged a company executive based in China with conspiring to terminate online meetings about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Source: New York Times
Steve Bannon Loses Lawyer After Suggesting Beheading of Fauci
By Gotham Rex on November 6, 2020
Mr. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump, said the heads of the F.B.I. director and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be put on pikes, leading Twitter to ban one of his accounts. Source: New York Times