Censorship News
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If a film to be shown in Russian movie theaters or on television does not promote the Kremlin's visions of "national unity" or if it "undermines the foundations of the national order," it will be banned, according to a new law soon to go into effect.
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Nairobi -
Kenyan lawmakers on Thursday voted through a tough anti-terror bill amid chaotic scenes in parliament and a brawl between opposition and government MPs.
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Women climaxing, spanking, bondage and other forms of rough sex just got a little harder to come by in the United Kingdom following an amended set of restrictions on which types of pornography U.K. film makers may produce.
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China has banned the use of wordplay within its borders in all forms of media. No puns, idioms, or other creative uses of language allowed.
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The Internet is the greatest invention in modern decades in terms of education and consumer awareness...so why are some conservatives upset that the Obama administration wants to preserve Net Neutrality?
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Bangkok -
Thailand’s military junta head Prayuth Chan-ocha has asked the national media to “stop reporting" about former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Moscow -
Russia threatened Tuesday to block the website of the BBC's Russian Service because it reported an activist's public appeal to get people to attend a rally mocking Moscow's policy in Ukraine.
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Singapore -
Singapore on Friday stopped its national library from destroying two children's books with gay themes following an outcry over literary censorship in the tightly regulated city-state.
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Dropbox only recently gained approval to provide an online cloud storage solution to the Chinese market earlier this year. Since February early this year, Dropbox has been operating smoothly until yesterday.
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Mountain View -
In a sign of China's growing international clout and Western corporations' growing willingness to play by Beijing's rules, the popular business networking site LinkedIn is blocking content relating to the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary.
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Budapest -
The sudden termination of a Hungarian editor's contract sparked protests in Budapest Tuesday after allegations he was fired for publishing a story which embarrassed Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government.The owner of the popular Origo.
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Beijing -
Several Google websites have been blocked in China, a monitoring service said Tuesday, as authorities step up arrests and censorship before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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Beijing -
A controversial nationalist professor in China has had his microblog account suspended after he posted a comment about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, in which he took part as a student.
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Tehran -
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has vetoed a plan to ban WhatsApp, following a row over censorship of the popular messaging application, media reports said Wednesday.
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Japanese manga artist Kazuto Tatsuta worked on the Fukushima Daiichi I nuclear plant cleanup. He had to quit in December 2012, when his radiation exposure neared the annual limit. Kodansha Ltd. is publishing Tatsuta's initial book about his experiences.
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Ankara -
In a tweet, Turkey's president on Friday hit out at the government ban of Twitter, as opposition leaders vowed to mount a legal challenge to the measure that came just days ahead of crucial polls.The popular micro-blogging site, one of several that has...
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Washington -
Support is strong across emerging and developing countries for an Internet without government censorship, a US survey showed Wednesday.The Pew Research Center found a majority opposed to government restrictions on online activity in 22 of 24 countries ...
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For the first time ever, the United States has been included in the Reporters Without Borders “Enemies of the Internet” report. Its inclusion places it in a report alongside the regimes in China, Iran, and North Korea.
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Fond Du Lac -
A Wisconsin school district's decision to require school administrators to approve student newspaper subject matter is taking a lot of heat.
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A very real fear of censorship has now taken hold in Russia after the federal media watchdog ordered the closing of several major opposition-leaning news sites, as well as the internet sites of prominent Kremlin foes Alexei Navalny and Garry Kasparov.
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Shanghai -
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has shut several accounts on its popular instant messaging platform WeChat, users said Friday, in what appeared to be part of a broader government crackdown on political content.WeChat -- known as "weixin" or micro-messag...
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Chinese authorities have launched another crackdown on Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular social messaging app WeChat, closing dozens of popular accounts, media reported on Friday, as China tightens its control of the Internet.
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Outgoing National Security Agency boss, Keith Alexander, advocated making it a crime to report on government leaks this week, and said that legislation to accomplish this was coming in weeks.
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Three Arab countries have banned the Hollywood film "Noah" on religious grounds even before its worldwide premiere and several others are expected to follow suit, a representative of Paramount Pictures to...
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Chicago -
Being censored on social media accounts is something those behind the 4th Trimester Bodies Project have grown accustomed to.
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Beijing -
Business networking site LinkedIn has launched a Chinese version, attempting to tap the huge market while navigating a strict censorship regime that has seen other foreign social media giants banned.China has the world's largest online community with m...
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San Francisco -
Microsoft denied censoring Chinese-language search results across the globe, but the group behind the accusation stood firm."We can emphatically confirm that they are not," Microsoft's senior director of Bing search engine Stefan Weitz said in a blog p...
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Beijing -
Microsoft's search engine Bing appears to be heavily censoring its Chinese-language search results across the globe as well as inside China, a cyber-monitoring group said Wednesday.According to the group Greatfire.org, international Chinese-language Bi...
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Microsoft Corp denied on Wednesday it was omitting websites from its Bing search engine results for users outside China after a Chinese rights group said the U.S.
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In many countries, the media can sway public opinion on many issues, and if those issues are detrimental to an election, the politicians get nervous. This apparently was the case in Japan this week, when a radio host was asked to change his commentary.
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Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper courtesy of the Conservative Party
A screengrab of an e-mail from Fredrick Töben.
A man protesting Internet censorship steffireichert
Against internet censorship
The Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris Creative Commons
A screengrab of the About page of the self-styled Online Hate Prevention Institute.
A screen capture of the notice sent to the 4th Trimester Bodies Project about the removal of a post. 4th Trimester Bodies Project
A screengrab from an e-mail by Dr Fredrick Töben which exposes the censorship of YouTube videos by Zionist hatemongers.
Russia is ready to add a new censorship law, banning films not promoting "national unity." YouTube
ERT morning TV show Marilena Katsimi and Kostas Arvanitis Nikos Simos MEDIA
A Turkish woman reads her freedom declaration to police Turkish Protests News
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