Censorship

Articles featuring analysis of the global censorship industrial complex, impacts on public health, free trade, liberty, and policy.

All Brownstone Institute articles on censorship are translated into multiple languages.

The UK and Canada Lead the West's Descent into Digital Authoritarianism

The UK and Canada Lead the West’s Descent into Digital Authoritarianism

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“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Orwell’s 1984 warns we must resist this descent into digital authoritarianism—through petitions, protests, and demands for transparency—before a Western Great Firewall is erected, replicating China’s stranglehold that polices every keystroke and thought.

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Does France Have Independent Media?

Does France Have Independent Media?

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By pitting America’s free-speech roar against Europe’s muffle, a First Amendment diplomacy would not just help France — it would spark a global revolution against officialdom. Media freedom isn’t bureaucrat-boxed; it’s people-powered. France, grab the line: Your Rogans are calling.

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A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines

A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines

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Matters got worse during the pandemic. Studies that praised the Covid vaccines were quickly certified “peer reviewed,” whereas critical, post-publication peer review was suppressed. As a result, we now have a historical collection of published poor science.

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The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

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In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.

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