We also preview the Spring 2020 issue on the theme of complicity

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Friday, 20 March 2020


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** Our Spring 2020 issue: Complicity
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Keeping our heads down can mean that hard-won rights can easily be lost. Sometimes we choose to stay quiet, but often we are complicit without realising, says our editor-in-chief Rachael Jolley in the upcoming issue of Index on Censorship.

“It is easy to part with or give away great privileges, but hard to be gained if once lost,” said Quaker William Penn, who went on to establish the state of Pennsylvania in the USA.

Far more recently, another wise man, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Judge, said: “There are still many countries in the world where what we happily call our rights remain privileges waiting to be won and entrenched.”
The latest issue of Index on Censorship is just going to press. In it we cover what's happening across the world from Venezuela to China. Our main theme is complicity, and how we as individuals can become complicit in our censorship, and also how people continue to fight for essential freedoms, such as the freedom to teach in Turkey, the freedom to talk about subjects that the government would rather were not mentioned in Venezuela and China, and how in Colombia powerful drug cartels are threatening journalists' lives. We also carry out investigations into how much private information about you and where you go is held by mapping apps, and how news algorithms are helping promote anti-LGBTQ agendas.
Index on Censorship defends people's freedom to express themselves without fear of harm or persecution. We publish censored writers and artists, monitor and campaign against censorship, and encourage debate.

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