Wired Magazine published six stories of censorship of online speech: songwriter Holly O’Reilly sued President Donald Trump for blocking her on Twitter; young-adult novelist Laura Moriarty’s latest publication was called a “white-supremacist novel;” former Google engineer James Damore was fired over his internal memo suggesting an open discussion of Google’s diversity policies; Writer Ijeoma Oluo was suspended from Facebook when, in a restaurant in Montana that seemed filled with hostile white people, to vent her fear she tweeted that she wondered if they would let her black ass walk out of there and put the hostile reactions to her tweet up on Facebook; Founder of the conservative Daily Wire Ben Shapiro was the target of anti-Semitic messages after expressing his gratitude for his son’s birth on Twitter after he had earlier came out as #NeverTrump; Muslim civil rights attorney Azhra Billoo’s thoughts about how to honor people who died in illegal wars came under attack for supposedly opposing Memorial Day. (Wired, January 16, 2018, by Wired Staff)
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