American novelist Gore Vidal has long been known as a liberal intellectual.
On Sunday, a number of distinguished writers, including Gore Vidal, Annie Proulx and E.M. Forster, suddenly lost their best-seller ranking -- which is the number that Amazon uses to show how well one title sells compared with another.
As a result, famous novels such as Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" and Vidal's "The City and the Pillar" are now unranked.
No democracy, please, we're Chinese! Hong Kong kung fu supremo Jackie Chan is famous worldwide for beating up the bad guys, but the action star is unlikely to use his martial arts skills to fight for democracy.
The actor told a forum on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, whose attendees included Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, he was not sure "freedom" was necessary. Chan.
A press freedom drama is being played out in Fiji with its military-led regime deporting journalists as it tightens its control on the island's besieged media. In the latest incident.
The internet retailer Amazon has found itself at the centre of a censorship row after it decided to remove a number of so-called adult books from its online charts. Over the weekend.
Gay literature has a long history of censorship. Since the 1881 censorship of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, gay and lesbian content has been classified as obscene. As recently as 2001.
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