In George Orwell’s classic 1984, published in 1949, warnings about the dangers of Big Brother and state-controlled media echo the chilling realities of censorship we see today in places like China and Russia.
Almost a century later, we face an even more chaotic battlefield as free speech is not under siege by a single monolithic oppressor—but rather a hydra of rapidly shifting political agendas, corporate interests, and societal and technological forces, all nibbling away at our ability to express ideas freely.
