The Story of Açık Radio and the Sound of Dissent in Turkey
A cornerstone of Turkey’s independent media since 1995, Açık Radyo lost its FM license in 2024 but continues to fight ...
Tag: Censorship
Targeted by Design: Technoviolence, Xenophobia, and Algorithmic Injustice in SWANA
In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic ...
Capitalism, War, and the Violence of Digital Platforms: A Conversation with Geert Lovink
A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.
“If I Die. I Want a Loud Death”: Reclaiming The Palestinian Narrative Through Social Media
Digital platforms silence Palestinians; yet online, they archive survival, expose injustice, and demand the world bear witness.
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
How Palestinian Journalists Are Reclaiming Their Story and Resisting Erasure
In Palestine, journalism has never been just a profession. It is a lifeline, a form of resistance, and, too often, ...
Legally Speaking: Inside Germany’s Trials Against Palestine Solidarity
From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling ...
We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest: Repression and Resistance from Berlin to New York
Facing arrests, bans, and brutal crackdowns, organizers in Berlin and New York persist in their fight for Palestine, exposing the ...
Allies in Blockade: How Serbia’s Students Sparked a Movement of Protest and Care
A performance of public love, radical democracy, and refusal to obey in advance united artists, farmers, doctors, and drag queens ...
The story of a young woman on the right side of history, in a country that keeps taking the wrong one
M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.
The Crackdown on Academic Freedom in Europe: A Conversation with Joseph Daher
As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just ...
Heavy baggage: A German reckoning with guilt, hypocrisy and responsibility
We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never ...
Voices for Gaza in the social trap
Users, activists and journalists have denounced the censorship, particularly by Facebook and Instagram, of posts reporting on what is happening ...
The war on Gaza: unverified “truth”: censorship and misinformation
I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, and I have never witnessed a time when editors were so ...
