🧩 BND Motif Index · M917
Thoughtcrime
Someone is prosecuted for words or ideas, a post, a book, a cover, and the charge is told as punishment for thinking the wrong thing: Orwell's thoughtcrime.
📜 Plots🗂️ Speech and censorship
- 4claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 3claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Book burning
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Culture police
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Sally Rooney's books withdrawn from UK sales over Palestine Action support 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-15
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-16 “Sally Rooney's books are being withdrawn from sale in the UK because her publisher cannot pay her royalties due to anti-terrorism legislation following her support for Palestine Action.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books or receive royalties in the UK due to her support for Palestine Action.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “An author has withdrawn her books from sale in the UK because of the risk of prosecution for donating profits to Palestine Action.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “An author faces a potential 60-day jail sentence in Germany for a book cover.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room
M917 · first seen 2026-10-12 · last 2026-10-16 · what this is · how the index works