Privacy is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They're two sides of the same coin. Everything people do together is inherently interactive. When those interactions cannot be conducted privately, when they become common public knowledge, the participants can be subjected to external pressure. They can be shunned, shamed, jailed or penalized in many other ways. Without privacy, you have no censorship resistance. Without privacy, most people will censor themselves.
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More than 150 cultural organisations and, as of this writing, over 320 artists and cultural workers have signed a public statement affirming their "commit[ment] to resisting external pressures" and that they will "stand with fellow institutions facing political pressure". The statement was organised by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) at the New School.
