music Band offers to send students copies of books banned by Alaska school board David Pescovitz

art A 'banned book' bookshelf Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives Joan Bertin and Millie Davis

happy mutants Comedy writer has exactly the right response to his kid's Fahrenheit 451 permission slip Cory Doctorow

censorship For the first time in 22 years, New Zealand has banned a book Mark Frauenfelder

genocide This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

law Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees Cory Doctorow

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

sports Watch these incredible and utterly dangerous moves banned from figure skating competitions David Pescovitz

Business Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark's anti-competitive legacy Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective Ada Palmer

Business Microsoft confirms 'Bing is currently inaccessible in China' Xeni Jardin

books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

books The latest Facebook scandal might explain why Amazon wrongfully banned book-reviewers Cory Doctorow

Business Twitter suspends academic who quoted feminist STEM research Cory Doctorow

Merrie Olde England Watch a 1977 Sex Pistols concert get shut down by London cops Mark Frauenfelder

novels Late bloomers: 10 classic books with terrible initial reviews Alyssa Favreau

politics Maryland has banned "gay conversion therapy" for minors David Pescovitz