Fadi Abou Hassan depicts the Turkish prime minister after he blocked social media outlets following this week’s local elections.
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In this week’s column, author Tarik Gunersel writes about literary and social media crackdowns as well as the recent challenges to religious freedom under Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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In this cartoon Enrico Bertuccioli (Italy) comments on Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan’s war on social media.
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Editorial cartoonist Surendran Rasadurai (Sri Lanka) on the stoning of a Syrian girl by the armed resistance group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for joining Facebook.
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Rewa Zeinati‘s first creative nonfiction book, Nietzche’s Camel Must Die: An Invitation to Say ‘No.’ A compilation of 115 daily Facebook notes, the themes range from women’s status and gender roles to kitchen sink grinders and men’s beards.
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In this interview Jason Q. Ng discusses the place that the social media site Sina Weibo has in Chinese culture, the origins of the Great Firewall and its censorship office, and why certain terms have been blocked on Weibo. Ng is author of Blocked on Weibo.
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The authorities classify him as a pornographer but Ren Hang is simply a photographer pushing for freedom in his field. His go-to themes of nudity and homosexuality are on the verge of giving his conservative society a nervous breakdown.
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