Volume 54.04 Winter 2025
Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced
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Index on Censorship
Contents – Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced
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Gen Z attitudes: An Index on Censorship survey
Take part in our survey of the views of people born between 1997 and 2012 on freedom of expression both on and offline
Investigative journalism under threat if government breaks end-to-end encryption
Index and other organisations issue statement as UK Members of Parliament debate a petition calling for the Online Safety Act to be repealed
Jimmy Lai’s guilty verdict is a disgrace
The guilty verdict delivered today is one of the biggest signs of how corrupt and unfree Hong Kong has become
Australia’s disproportionate response to online harms
Banning the under-16s from many social media spaces may look like the answer, but it curtails free expression and threatens privacy. There must be a better way
Tyrant of the year 2025: Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada
The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law regulations introduced this year are some of the most repressive anywhere
Tyrant of the year 2025: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The Turkish leader is no stranger to authoritarian tactics
Tyrant of the year 2025: Vladimir Putin
No one is safe it seems from the self-proclaimed Father of the Nation
Tyrant of the year 2025: Narendra Modi
The control of online speech is seen as a guarantor of political dominance, both for the party and its leader
Tyrant of the year 2025: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
A further crackdown on dissent this year continues the Supreme Leader’s bloody rule
Tyrant of the year 2025: Benjamin Netanyahu
Some argue that Israel has crossed into authoritarianism under the country’s prime minister