Mediated Transnational Repression
How third parties become channels of censorship across borders.
Summary
Mediated transnational repression refers to the use of third parties, including host-state institutions, venues, publishers, funders, platforms, commercial organisations and public authorities, as agents or channels of repression.
How it works
This method works by making expression appear risky, unsafe, controversial, legally difficult or professionally costly. A regime or aligned pressure network may not need to ban a writer directly if it can persuade a venue to cancel, a funder to withdraw, a publisher to hesitate, or an authority to treat the targeted writer as a security problem.
Related sub-methods
- Venue and Event Cancellation
- Funding and Grant Pressure
- Publisher and Production Pressure
