Censorship Archives

Webtoon’s Unclear Moderation Policies Drive Away Canvas Creators

April 15, 2022

[Publisher’s note: This article’s headline has been updated to reflect clarifications provided by WEBTOON on Monday, April 18, 2022. WEBTOON wished to clarify that they do not have censorship policies, as our headline originally indicated, but rather, they have publicly available ...

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Hashtag Je Suis Choqué: Was it a MISTAKE to Back Charlie? #JeSuisCharlie

April 6, 2016

To paraphrase the Hebdo editorial Everyone’s Been Talking About, all Muslims, bear with my sarcasm, are responsible for any terrorism popularly associated with Islam, because if we like and respect Muslims, then we can’t condemn their religion. And if we can’t condemn the ...

Opinion, Profiles & Primers

Alison Rapp and Speech We Hate: Disentangling an Ugly Mess

April 4, 2016

When Alison Rapp was hired to work at Nintendo of America, her 2011 undergraduate honors thesis, Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws, had been publicly available in the Honors Review for more than a year. ...

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The Thursday Book Beat: Angolan Rapper Arrested for Book Club Pick

March 31, 2016

Once again, I’ve taken over Angel’s book beat which means I have all of the power where book news is concerned! (cue cackle). Before we begin, I just wanted to say RIP to Ellen Seligman who died this past Friday. She was an editor and publisher of McClelland & Stewart for four ...

Comics, Opinion

Where Queer Appropriation in Supergirl Fills In for DC Comics’ Past Homophobia

December 22, 2015

Seven episodes into Supergirl, the television show has proven to contain a lot of talent both behind the cameras and in front. It may even be the best live-action superhero show that has come out of DC’s recent crop thus far. From the first episode, it has put in effort to be woman-friendly, ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion, Profiles & Primers

On Shipping: What’s Disney’s, What’s Yours, and What’s Mine

December 7, 2015

We never expect our ships to become canon. That’s the first thing you need to know. Wait, no. Let me start that again. As a result of creating a new world where there wasn’t one before, we have created our own language for this. We had to. The rest of the world gave us nothing. Ships are ...

Essays

Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell

September 10, 2015

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classic 1971 I couldn’t tell you the year I read The Bell Jar, I couldn’t tell you how old I was, nor the season. But I could tell you what I was wearing the first time I opened the pages and fell deeply in love with Sylvia Plath. I had this two ...

Essays

By Banning Books Do We Challenge Parental Rights?

September 2, 2015

For the purposes of this essay, I’m going to keep the conversation of challenging books, also called banning books, at my local level. I agree there are much larger discussions to be had on freedom of speech and parental rights, but I want this conversation to have a lighter tone, if possible. ...

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The Thursday Book Beat: Love Triangles To Threesomes In YA

August 13, 2015

Yet another Ardo takeover of the Thursday Book Beat this week. Let’s check out some book news. The Great Leap In Logic: Love Triangles To Threesomes In YA Writer Allen Salkin makes the claim that “young adult books are getting hotter with threesomes” as the latest trend in the ...

Bande Dessinée, Comics, Essays, Opinion

I’m Not Charlie, and Neither are You. So Who ARE You? Where’s Your Stand?

June 1, 2015

Using cartooning to provoke and punish people makes cartooning an instrument of cruelty. It’s easy to say that nothing can devalue or tarnish a form of art or a medium, but it’s harder to sit down your human emotions and sense of connection and tell it that a scene isn’t souring and widely ...

Censorship

Webtoon’s Unclear Moderation Policies Drive Away Canvas Creators

Hashtag Je Suis Choqué: Was it a MISTAKE to Back Charlie? #JeSuisCharlie

Alison Rapp and Speech We Hate: Disentangling an Ugly Mess

The Thursday Book Beat: Angolan Rapper Arrested for Book Club Pick

Where Queer Appropriation in Supergirl Fills In for DC Comics’ Past Homophobia

On Shipping: What’s Disney’s, What’s Yours, and What’s Mine

Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell

By Banning Books Do We Challenge Parental Rights?

The Thursday Book Beat: Love Triangles To Threesomes In YA

I’m Not Charlie, and Neither are You. So Who ARE You? Where’s Your Stand?

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