Censorship News

London - In the New Year there will be three lectures at the British Library on censorship. Admission is free but accommodation is limited.

Google and Microsoft have agreed to block images of child sexual abuse. Is this welcome news, or the start of a very slippery slope?

Istanbul - Turkey is in the news again as Prime Minister Erdogan continues to limit secular democracy and push his Islamist agendas. See the photo that almost got me arrested and read why I left Turkey.

Buenos Aires - A cleaning crew has found dossiers containing some 1,500 secret files containing transcripts of all meetings held by the military junta, which ruled Argentina from 1976-1983. The regime is blamed for as many as 30,000 deaths.

Beijing - Due to censorship rules, Chinese readers of books originally published in English could be missing quite a few details. Here is one author's story.

Istambul - After a 2.5-year stay in Turkey, I left the repressive state just days before police came knocking on my door over a photograph I published.

The aptly titled MoronWatch website monitors moral panics and the people who promote and batten off them. Check it out, you may meet someone you know.

China is imposing new measures with regard to its residents' online activities, a move that tightens its ever-increasing restrictions on Internet usage and one that might raise a few more eyebrows.

The Pirate Bay recently celebrated their 10th anniversary. The infamous peer-to-peer torrent tracking site posted on their blog that they did not think they would make it this far, but they did.

Istanbul - Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan receives support from powerful Fetullah Gulen and his media empire even as he censors the news in Turkey.