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Power

BANNED

A global tour of censorship, blasphemy laws, and the many ways governments silence their citizens—from North Korea's total control to democracies that smile while they restrict.

55 min read18 sections9,967 wordsFree online

What This Book Covers

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One - No Fun Allowed
  3. Chapter Two - Rolling the Dice
  4. Chapter Three - Porn and PDA
  5. Chapter Four - Banned Love
  6. Chapter Five - Blasphemy Laws
  7. Chapter Six - Faith Enforcement
  8. Chapter Seven - Don’t Speak
  9. Chapter Eight - Quiet Police States
  10. Chapter Nine - Don’t Touch That
  11. Chapter Ten - Banned for Women
  12. Chapter Eleven - Drugs and Death
  13. Chapter Twelve - Crossing the Line
  14. Chapter Thirteen - When the Internet Vanishes
  15. Chapter Fourteen - Pop Culture Panic
  16. Chapter Fifteen - Banned Science
  17. Chapter Sixteen - You Can’t Wear That
  18. Chapter Seventeen - Everything Else (In Case You Were Wondering)

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THERE’S A LINE in every society. You don’t have to see it to know it’s there. Sometimes, it’s written into law. Sometimes, it’s just understood. Sometimes, it’ll get you fined. Sometimes, it’ll get you killed. But it’s always there. A red line. A rule. A limit. And the strangest part is that most people don’t question it. They grow up inside it. They memorize it. They enforce it. Not because they’re cruel. But because they think it’s normal. A woman arrested for taking off her hijab. The man executed after being convicted of drug charges. The woman denied a divorce because her country’s laws won’t let her end the marriage. The teenager sentenced to lashes for dancing on TikTok. The...

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