Writers around the world are felt that "Freedom of Expression" is now being threatened

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PEN American CenterAccording to the survey, it turned out that there is a tendency not to tend to write articles about cases where many writers in recent years are controversial. The writerFreedom of expressionAlthough it is said to be a vulnerable occupation, it is said that writers around the world are now worried about monitoring by the government and feel that freedom of expression is threatened.

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This survey was conducted on-line in the autumn of 2014, and it is targeted at people involved in literary business including translators and editors of 50 countries around the world, and a total of 772 respondents got responses It was. According to it, 75% of the respondents in the country that is freedom of expression now being threatened in various countries now regardless of democracy and non-democracy, "freedom of expression" is 75%, " 84% of respondents in the country that are said to have freedom "and" 80% of respondents in countries considered free of expression "are worried by the government.

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According to the survey, there are also writers who avoid writing or talking about specific themes, the number of which is 34% in the country with freedom of expression, 44% in the country where freedom of expression is partly, In a country free of freedom, it has reached 61%. In addition, those who refrain from activities at SNS and people thinking about refraining from fear of monitoring existed at almost the same rate.

This was not a reflection of the trends of all writers because it was a survey targeting writers who are concerned with PEN American Center, which emphasizes Freedom of Expression, but Susan Nozel of PEN executive is " Mass surveillance by the government is damaging freedom of expression and information distribution in the world. " "Writers are the best occupation prone to infringement of freedom of expression, even in countries where it has been said that" Freedom of expression "is occurring in countries that have been considered" freedom of expression " It is a very troubling situation. "FDR Groupsaccording to,Sony PicturesHas evolved into a state in which the release of the movie is in danger of being hacked,US National Security Agency(NSA)Access to Skype · Hotmail etc.I am doing it,All the Skype communications can be intercepted in real timeIt was thought that the results were influenced by the survey results.

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36% of the respondents in the country that are said to have "freedom of expression" other than the United States and 32% of the respondents in the country which is said to have no freedom of expression than the United States said " Freedom of expression has not been protected ", and it seems that this series of cases seems to have hurt" freedom of expression "greatly in the United States.

"Even if the information gathered is not unjustly handled by the government, the fact that the government is afraid of surveillance is a matter of concern," said PEN's novelistHari KunlouMr. Also, Mr. Nozel also said, "Writers worried about watching are changing their behavior, which is a problem, regardless of the facts, this is not a matter to ignore."