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The Week That Was at Global Voices: Pokémon Go Gets Political

Categories: East Asia, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, China, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Timor-Leste, Arts & Culture, Censorship, Education, Freedom of Speech, International Relations, Technology, Global Voices Podcast

This week we speak with Global Voices editors Oiwan Lam, Mahsa Alimardani and Nevin Thompson about how politics and censorship are affecting Pokémon Go in Iran, Japan and China. We also take a look at two stories related to free expression in Timor-Leste and Mexico.

This episode features stories by Dalia Kiakilir [1]Giovanna Salazar [2]Nevin Thompson [3]Mahsa Alimardani [4] and Oiwan Lam [5]. Many thanks to all our authors, translators and editors who helped make this possible.

In this episode of The Week That Was at Global Voices, we featured Creative Commons licensed music from the Free Music Archive, including Please Listen Carefully [6] by Jahzzar (CC BY-SA 4.0); Parade Shoes [7] by Blue Dot Sessions (CC BY-NC 4.0); Mobile [8]by Blue Dot Sessions (CC BY-NC 4.0); Falcon Hood [9] by Podington Bear (CC BY-NC 3.0); and Another Brick in the Wall (live) [10] by Montana Skies (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).

Image used in the SoundCloud thumbnail is a screenshot from a YouTube video [11] by SeaMTee Gaming.