Censorship
No compromise: Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills
Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.
- by David Crowe
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Competition
Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google & Co
The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants, even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Albany
WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship
In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s, the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.
- by Hamish Hastie
China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed
Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.
- by Vivian Wang
When art and politics collide: The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart
Sackings, boycotts, sponsorship withdrawals: arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Opinion
Freedom of speech
What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides
Culture wars have many fronts but the Israel/Hamas conflict has supercharged unlikely battles over free speech, discrimination and the nature of protest.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Social media
The free-speech billionaires are losing the war
Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Opinion
Elon Musk saying civil war is inevitable is not inciting violence. Here’s why
Beware the online-harm brigade, or we’ll have police on our doorsteps as fast as we can say boo online.
- by Josh Szeps
An increasingly uncomfortable world: Loss of skiing a minor issue in the climate change context
Loss of snow cover is further proof, if any were needed, that our climate is changing – and not for the better.
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Cumberland Council should reverse its same-sex library book ban
One councillor against the book ban says it contradicts Cumberland’s motto of “Welcome, Belong, Succeed”.
- The Herald's View
‘Copycat’ book bans: How US activists are impacting Australian libraries
Best-selling Australian author Amie Kaufman, whose books have been banned in the US, is warning against importing a culture war over literature.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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