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• Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Frederick J. Antczak (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Poethical Wager (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Joan Retallack (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Responsibility of the Artist, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)

• Every Citizen has a Right to Know: A Report of the Georgia Literature Commission (1954), by James Pickett Wesberry and Georgia State Literature Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pernicious Literature: Debate in the House of Commons; Trial and Conviction for Sale of Zola's novels; With Opinions of the Press (London: National Vigilance Assoc., 1889), by National Vigilance Association (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• When the Censor Comes: A Guide for Teachers, Librarians, Booksellers and Others Who Disseminate the Printed Word, by Sandra Bernstein (HTML at freedomtoread.ca)

• Scattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2019), by Robert Bergen (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Invisible Hand on Hong Kong's Media (2016), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF with commentary at rdf.org)

• The Invisible Hand on Hong Kong's Media (2016), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF with commentary at rdf.org)

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China (c2012), by Ying Jiang (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)
• "Race to the Bottom": Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Rebecca MacKinnon (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (CANF pamphlet #2; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Muzzling the Media: The Return of Censorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States (2007), by Christopher Walker (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (partial serial archives)
• Attacks on the Press, by Committee to Protect Journalists (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (issues free to access after 1 year; 2016-) (partial serial archives)
• Index on Censorship (free access available to all but the 4 most recent issues) (partial serial archives)

• Negotiating the News: Informal State Censorship of Ukrainian Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2003), by Jane Buchanan (PDF at hrw.org)

• Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (second edition; New York: Free Expression Policy Project, c2003), by Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho (PDF at fepproject.org)
• Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (New York: Privately printed for the Emergency Committee, 1920), by Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, contrib. by James Branch Cabell, Barrett H. Clark, Padraic Colum, Edward Hale Bierstadt, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, Hugh Walpole, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, and Owen Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is the Enemy: Anthony Comstock Or You? (New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1903), by Edwin C. Walker (page images at Google; US access only)

• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815) (extract from Le Livre, in French; 1887), by Henri Welschinger
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• The Free Press, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• The Cuban Scene: Censors and Dissenters (CANF pamphlet #2; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Carlos Ripoll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2008), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)

• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2018), by Tarleton Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pernicious Literature: Debate in the House of Commons; Trial and Conviction for Sale of Zola's novels; With Opinions of the Press (London: National Vigilance Assoc., 1889), by National Vigilance Association (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

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