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Joy Alonzo was suspended and investigated after she allegedly criticized Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a lecture on the opioid crisis. Free speech advocates call the probe "blatantly inappropriate."

Government bullying won’t fix censorship caused by government bullying.

Elizabeth Gilbert has withdrawn her forthcoming novel “The Snow Forest” from publication amid increasingly vociferous fallout over her decision to set the narrative in Russia while the war in Ukraine is ongoing.

‘It’s an appeal to fear and it’s an appeal that is totally, thoroughly unjustified and ugly’

Booksellers and library workers face unconsitutional restrictions and ‘extreme punishments’, plaintiffs argue

A woman at the centre of a widely derided complaint attended rallies and protests with extremist groups and posted antisemitic content as she joined far-right book ban activism, reports find

Poet, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal

Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami-Dade County, restricted access to Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb," which she read at President Biden's inauguration, for elementary-aged students after a parent issued a formal complaint on the grounds that the poem was "not educational" and included indirect…

No one needs to tell Salman Rushdie about the cost of free speech.