Censorship
03 Oct 1994 12:00In America. In other developed countries. In the rest of the world. Functional alternatives --- e.g., dangerous people are allowed to publish, because no one but their friends and relatives will ever hear of their books, let alone read them. (Or they write Web pages no one reads.)
- Recommended (obviously inadequate):
- Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
- Gary King, Jennifer Pan and Margaret E. Roberts, "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument" [PDF preprint]
- Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas
- To read:
- Robert Darnton, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
- Annabel Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England
- Margaret E. Roberts, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
