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PEN America's @jzfriedman says a professor's recent suspension over sharing student-made projects deemed offensive should have been "a teaching opportunity rather than grounds for an investigation." Read the full statement here: https://bit.ly/34jrXrV.

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Increasingly popular social platform TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which has been accused of censoring users, most recently for posting content about issues including the persecution of Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong: https://bit.ly/2YJzHCh via @hyperallergic.

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