
How shadowbanning silences pro-Palestine voices
Amidst a global humanitarian crisis, Instagram users say they’re censored for speaking up

Mastercard’s policies are a danger to sex workers, and your freedom of speech
The ACLU has filed a complaint against the company with the Federal Trade Commission, urging an investigation into its discriminatory practices

Misha Japanwala wants you to be without shame
In her new exhibition, the artist documents the bodies of those who have worked to forge a more liberated society in her native Karachi

Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws
The legislation chips away at the right to privacy online—raising questions about the cost of making the internet safe for children

What internet sex drama says about our political climate
From debates over on-screen sex scenes to whether kids should be exposed to drag, recent Twitter discourse illustrates the slippery slope of online censorship

Will transparency be enough to improve TikTok’s famously overzealous censorship policy?
The app is under fire for banning everything from educational content to videos about racial injustice. Now, they’re putting a new “strike” system in place

China learns what happens when you tell goths to remove their makeup
An online protest has erupted in China after a woman was banned from getting on public transport because her goth-style makeup was “too frightening.”

Slava Mogutin’s very queer, very NSFW response to online censorship
The Russian refugee opens his archive of banned images for an online exhibition with Tom of Finland.

Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
