Despite a school-level review committee’s recent decision that The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is appropriate for a 10th grade Honors English class, the Buncombe County, North Carolina, parent and former school board member who…
Supreme Court Reverses Conviction in Facebook Threats Case
The Supreme Court this week reversed the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who made obliquely threatening statements toward his estranged wife and others on Facebook, saying that courts must take into account the defendant’s state of…
VICTORY: Censors Fail in Of Mice and Men Challenge
Neil Gaiman Responds to One Million Moms’ Lucifer Shenanigans
Cartoonist Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Mocking Birth Control Bill
Iranian artist and activist Atena Farghadani, who was charged with “insulting members of parliament through paintings” for a caricature she drew lampooning debate on a bill that would outlaw some forms of contraception, has…
Spiegelman New Statesman Cover Pulled Amid Dispute Over Mohammed Comic
The most recent issue of the UK’s New Statesman magazine, on the theme of “Saying the Unsayable,” was originally slated to feature a cover by Art Spiegelman. But the legendary creator of Maus…
Censorship by Financial Sabotage: Cartoonist Sonny Liew Loses Singapore Arts Grant
Iran Combats ISIS With Cartoon Contest
Cartoonists Tell Azerbaijan to #FreeKhadija
Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been a thorn in the side of Azerbaijan’s government for years. Her reporting has exposed high-level corruption and nepotism in President Ilham Aliyev’s administration, so it’s sadly unsurprising that she was arrested on spurious charges…
New Law Would Censor the Internet in South Africa
Right now, South Africa’s government is considering a new and highly controversial digital content law that, if passed unaltered, would essentially authorize widespread censorship of the internet. The Online Regulation Policy drafted by the Film and…
CBLDF Joins Coalition Protesting Censorship of Of Mice and Men in Idaho
CBLDF has joined the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right to Read Project and other free speech advocates to protest an Idaho school district review committee’s recommendation that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men be restricted in…
OUT TODAY: CBLDF Presents Elephantmen: Shots!
Iranians Embrace Ebooks to Combat Censorship
Florida Officials Considered Restricting Speech to Stymie Satanists
As Florida governor Rick Scott’s office last year searched for a justification to bar a Satanic holiday display from the capitol building in Tallahassee for the second year in a row, state lawyers proposed blanket restrictions on…