21 Oct 2014: Mary O’Hara: Sex and religion have long vexed self-appointed guardians of US school and library reading habits, but now objectors are trying to add social inequality to their list of unacceptable topics
21 Oct 2014:
New research suggests that viewers may be partly responsible for ‘ratings creep’ which has seen younger children exposed to increasing levels of big screen sex and violence
10 Oct 2014: Andrew Collins: The British Board of Film Classification’s consumer advice, revealing ‘unsuitable or harmful content’ before a film starts, is ruining the experience for some cinemagoers
2 Oct 2014:
R rating for feel-good comedy drama about collaboration between striking miners and gay and lesbian protesters renews calls that US ratings board is prejudiced against LGBT content
30 Sep 2014: Letters: The reaction in these two cases shows the same failure to distinguish between historical facts on the one hand, and an imaginative response to them on the other
29 Sep 2014: Jillian C York: From trans people to activists, there are some good reasons for some Facebook users to use a pseudonym. And yet, Facebook is unrelenting
26 Sep 2014:
Free-speech organisations find US government is ‘failing to protect the rights of its most vulnerable citizens’ as popular books – including Shakespeare – are banned from institutions
25 Sep 2014:
In a move condemned by free speech advocates, the islands’ government moves to curb literature and poetry’s ‘adverse effects on society’, reports Alison Flood