Censorship

Review: A Victim of Chinese Authoritarianism Explains Censorship and Surveillance

"A primary aim of censorship is to normalize itself," Ai Weiwei writes in his new book On Censorship.

Matthew Petti | From the June 2026 issue

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After becoming the target of police harassment, the Chinese artist and journalist Ai Weiwei left his homeland for good in 2015. In a new book, On Censorship, he writes about how censorship and surveillance go hand in hand. Like a dealer........

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