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Public Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Transcript
John Oliver details the response to the past week’s campus protests, offers a reminder on what those protests are about, and explains why public libraries are under attack.
John Oliver details the response to the past week’s campus protests, offers a reminder on what those protests are about, and explains why public libraries are under attack.
Yanis Varoufakis was banned not just from visiting Germany but from participating in video conferences about politics hosted in Germany.
Veneziani criticizes social media censorship of his article on saving villages, highlighting issues with AI and woke ideology’s impact on free speech.
Criticism leveled at Israel for employing censorship and violence in Gaza, drawing parallels to historical genocides amid global silence.
2022 saw a record rise in US book bans, sparking debates on censorship vs. inclusivity in literature, with classics under scrutiny for modern values.
The legacy media are furious about Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. But why? And does the new power axis of Tucker and Elon Musk now dwarf all legacy media combined?
Nothing captures what’s wrong with today’s “journalism” like the sad saga of what happened last week at The Washington Post.
Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood ended with both the little girl and her grandmother dead and no hunter to save them. The Grimm brothers softened the ending to suit their intention of entertainment rather than the moralizing of Perrault’s tales.
Fahrenheit 451 is an indictment of censorship and expurgation, so the fact that this book was expurgated and marketed by the publisher that way for 13 years before the author became aware of the abuse is particularly ironic.
On October 1, 1993, Hicks was scheduled to appear on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, where Letterman had recently moved. It was his 12th appearance on a Letterman late-night show, but his entire performance was removed from the broadcast. This is the full transcript.
Of Mice and Men earned the dubious prestige of being the second most frequently banned book in the public school curriculum of the 1990s. Censors claim that the novella contains crude heroes who speak vulgar language and whose experiences exhibit a sadly deficient social system in the United States.
Although passed without cuts, Lolita was rated “X” by the British Board of Film Censors when released in 1962, meaning no one under 16 years of age was permitted to watch.
SUMMARY Spartacus is based on an historical figure and is the story of the rise and fall of a slave living in Rome before the
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