A former minister of culture said that junior officials gave him evidence of the blacklists:”They were told to destroy the data, but they collected and saved it.” Up to 10,000 artists and writers were on the list by 2015, sources say.
How ‘South Park’-Style Humor And Trolling Elected Donald Trump
“There were things South Park had always had trouble imagining: it was complex and dialectical on male anger and sadness, and able to gaze with empathy into the soul of a troll, but it couldn’t create a funny girl or a mother who wasn’t a nag. What it did get, however, was how dangerous it could be for voters to feel shamed and censored – and how quickly a liberating joke could corkscrew into a weapon.” A longread by Emily Nussbaum.