The recent delay of a child marriage ban in Kentucky, USA is part of a global issue of human rights.
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The US Federal Communication Commission voted today to dismantle so-called net-neutrality regulations which prevent broadband providers from blocking certain websites or charging for certain web content.
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The widely criticized suspension last week of Bloomberg New’s Hong Kong-based journalist Michael Forsythe sparks discussion of alleged censorship of reporters and articles in China. In this video, James Fallows, Demetri Sevastopulo and discuss the issue with CNN’s Eric Deggans.
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A recent PEN America survey of over 520 American writers finds that writers are not only overwhelmingly worried about government surveillance, but are engaging in self-censorship as a result. Read the full report
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The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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As the internet’s role in free speech becomes increasingly prevalent, tactics to control the internet are growing more refined each year. This list of 2011′s current transgressors has been compiled…
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Like the many facets of Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story alternate future, this conversation between the author and John Allison (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) turned to unexpected topics like pornography, immortality, and Russia.
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