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49.01 CONTENTS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 01 – SPRING 2020 1 THEY LIKE IT BEST WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL RACHAEL JOLLEY Whether from lack of options or an unwillingness to be inconvenienced, some of our life choices are curtailing our freedoms COMPLICITY Why and when we choose to censor ourselves and give away our privacy 8 WILLINGLY WATCHED NOELLE MATEER Chinese people are installing their own video cameras as they believe losing privacy is a price they are willing to pay for enhanced safety 11 THE BIG DEAL JEAN-PAUL MARTHOZ French journalists past and present have felt pressure to conform to the view of the tribe in their reporting 14 DON’T LET THEM CALL THE TUNE JEFFREY WASSERSTROM A professor debates the moral questions about speaking at events sponsored by an organisation with links to the Chinese government 17 CHIPPING AWAY AT OUR PRIVACY NATHALIE ROTHSCHILD Swedes are having microchips inserted under their skin. What does that mean for their privacy? 20 THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING SCARED KIRSTEN HAN As a journalist from Singapore grows up, her views on those who have self-censored change 4INDEXONCENSORSHIP.ORG 22 HOW TO RUIN A GOOD DINNER PARTY JEMIMAH STEINFELD We’re told not to discuss sex, politics and religion at the dinner table, but what happens to our free speech when we give in to that rule? 24 SSHH...NO SPEAKING OUT ALISON FLOOD Historians Tom Holland, Mary Fulbrook, Serhii Plokhy and Daniel Beer discuss the people from the past who were guilty of complicity 28 MAKING FOES OUT OF FRIENDS STEVEN BOROWIEC North Korea’s grave human rights record is off the negotiation table in talks with South Korea. Why? 31 NOTHING IN LIFE IS FREE MARK FRARY An investigation into how much information and privacy we are giving away on our phones 34 NOT MY TURF JEMIMAH STEINFELD Helen Lewis argues that vitriol around the trans debate means only extreme voices are being heard 36 STRIPSEARCH MARTIN ROWSON You’ve just signed away your freedom to dream in private 38 DRIVEN TOWARDS THE EXIT VICTORIA PAVLOVA As Bulgarian media is bought up by those with ties to the government, journalists are being forced out of the industry 41 SHADOWING THE GOLDEN AGE OF SOVIET CENSORSHIP AK WELSAPAR The Turkmen author discusses those who got in bed with the old regime, and what’s happening now 44 SILENT MAJORITY STEFANO POZZEBON A culture of fear has taken over Venezuela, where people are facing prison for being critical C R E D I T : B e n J e n n i n g s
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47 ACADEMICALLY CHALLENGED KAYA GENÇ A Turkish academic who worried about publicly criticising the government hit a tipping point once her name was faked on a petition 50 UNHEALTHY MARKET CHARLOTTE MIDDLEHURST As coronavirus affects China’s economy, will a weaker market mean international companies have more power to stand up for freedom of expression? 53 WHEN SILENCE IS NOT ENOUGH JULIAN BAGGINI The philosopher ponders the dilemma of when you have to speak out and when it is OK not to IN FOCUS 58 GENERATIONS APART? KAYA GENÇ AND KAROLINE KAN We sat down with Turkish and Chinese families to hear whether things really are that different between the generations when it comes to free speech 63 CROSSING THE LINE STEPHEN WOODMAN Cartels trading in cocaine are taking violent action to stop journalists reporting on them 66 A SLAP IN THE FACE ALESSIO PERRONE Meet the Italian journalist who has had to fight over 126 lawsuits all aimed at silencing her 69 CON (CENSUS) JESSICA NÍ MHAINÍN Turns out national censuses are controversial, especially in the countries where information is most tightly controlled 72 THE DOCUMENTARY BOLSONARO DOESN’T WANT MADE RACHAEL JOLLEY Brazil’s president has pulled the plug on funding for the TV series Transversais. Why? We speak to the director and publish extracts from its pitch 75 QUEER ERASURE ANDY LEE ROTH & APRIL ANDERSON Internet browsing can be biased against LGBTQ people, new exclusive research shows CULTURE 80 UP IN SMOKE FÉLIX BRUZZONE A semi-autobiographical story from the son of two of Argentina’s disappeared 86 BETWEEN THE GAVEL AND THE ANVIL NAJWA BIN SHATWAN A new short story about a Libyan author who starts changing her story to please neighbours 94 WE COULD ALL DISAPPEAR NEAMAT IMAN The Bangladesh novelist on why his next book is about a famous writer who disappeared in the 1970s 99 DEMAND POINTS OF VIEW ORNA HERR A new Index initiative has allowed people to debate about all of the issues we’re otherwise avoiding 102 TICKING THE BOXES JEMIMAH STEINFELD Voter turnout has never felt more important and has led to many new organisations setting out to encourage this. But they face many obstacles EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rachael Jolley FINANCE DIRECTOR David Sewell CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Matt Townsend DEPUTY EDITOR Jemimah Steinfeld ASSOCIATE EDITOR Mark Frary SENIOR EVENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER Leah Cross ADVOCACY OFFICER Jessica Ní Mhainín EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Orna Herr OFFICE MANAGER Katie Fung ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Julia Farrington DIRECTORS & TRUSTEES Trevor Phillips (Chair), David Aaronovitch, Anthony Barling, Kate Maltby, Elaine Potter, David Schlesinger, Mark Stephens, Kiri Kankhwende PATRONS Margaret Atwood, Simon Callow, Steve Coogan, Brian Eno, Harold Evans, Christopher Hird, Jude Kelly, Michael Palin, Matthew Parris, Alexandra Pringle, Gabrielle Rifkind, Sir Tom Stoppard, Lady Sue Woodford Hollick ADVISORY COMMITTEE Julian Baggini, Clemency BurtonHill, Ariel Dorfman, Michael Foley, Andrew Franklin, Conor Gearty, AC Grayling, Lyndsay Griffiths, William Horsley, Anthony Hudson, Natalia Koliada, Jane Kramer, Htein Lin, Jean-Paul Marthoz, Robert McCrum, Rebecca MacKinnon, Beatrice Mtetwa, Julian Petley, Michael Scammell, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Smyth, Tess Woodcraft, Christie Watson 5 INDEXONCENSORSHIP.ORG

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49.01

CONTENTS

VOLUME 49 NUMBER 01 – SPRING 2020

1 THEY LIKE IT BEST WHEN YOU SAY

NOTHING AT ALL RACHAEL JOLLEY Whether from lack of options or an unwillingness to be inconvenienced, some of our life choices are curtailing our freedoms

COMPLICITY Why and when we choose to censor ourselves and give away our privacy

8 WILLINGLY WATCHED NOELLE MATEER

Chinese people are installing their own video cameras as they believe losing privacy is a price they are willing to pay for enhanced safety

11 THE BIG DEAL JEAN-PAUL MARTHOZ

French journalists past and present have felt pressure to conform to the view of the tribe in their reporting

14 DON’T LET THEM CALL THE TUNE

JEFFREY WASSERSTROM A professor debates the moral questions about speaking at events sponsored by an organisation with links to the Chinese government

17 CHIPPING AWAY AT OUR PRIVACY

NATHALIE ROTHSCHILD Swedes are having microchips inserted under their skin. What does that mean for their privacy?

20 THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH

BEING SCARED KIRSTEN HAN As a journalist from Singapore grows up, her views on those who have self-censored change

4INDEXONCENSORSHIP.ORG

22 HOW TO RUIN A GOOD DINNER

PARTY JEMIMAH STEINFELD We’re told not to discuss sex, politics and religion at the dinner table, but what happens to our free speech when we give in to that rule?

24 SSHH...NO SPEAKING OUT ALISON FLOOD

Historians Tom Holland, Mary Fulbrook, Serhii Plokhy and Daniel Beer discuss the people from the past who were guilty of complicity

28 MAKING FOES OUT OF FRIENDS STEVEN BOROWIEC

North Korea’s grave human rights record is off the negotiation table in talks with South Korea. Why?

31 NOTHING IN LIFE IS FREE MARK FRARY

An investigation into how much information and privacy we are giving away on our phones

34 NOT MY TURF JEMIMAH STEINFELD

Helen Lewis argues that vitriol around the trans debate means only extreme voices are being heard

36 STRIPSEARCH MARTIN ROWSON

You’ve just signed away your freedom to dream in private

38 DRIVEN TOWARDS THE EXIT VICTORIA PAVLOVA

As Bulgarian media is bought up by those with ties to the government, journalists are being forced out of the industry

41 SHADOWING THE GOLDEN AGE OF

SOVIET CENSORSHIP AK WELSAPAR The Turkmen author discusses those who got in bed with the old regime, and what’s happening now

44 SILENT MAJORITY STEFANO POZZEBON

A culture of fear has taken over Venezuela, where people are facing prison for being critical

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