Censorship News
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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.
In the Media
by AFP
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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.
In the Media
by AFP
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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.
In the Media
by Tom Hancock (AFP)
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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.
In the Media
by AFP
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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.
In the Media
by AFP
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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...
In the Media
by Fulya Ozerkan (AFP)
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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 ...
In the Media
by AFP
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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...
In the Media
by AFP
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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.
In the Media
by Reuters
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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...
In the Media
by Noah Browning (Reuters)
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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...
In the Media
by AFP
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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...
In the Media
by AFP
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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...
In the Media
by AFP
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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.
In the Media
by Paul Carsten (Reuters)
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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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Beijing -
The government in China is attempting to tighten controls on public discourse in the nation by requiring users uploading videos to register with their real names.
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San Francisco -
A firm specializing in censorship-evading technology on Wednesday blamed a massive breakdown of China's internet on website address "hijacking" tools used by authorities there.
In the Media
by AFP
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The Guardian newspaper's website has been blocked in China without warning or any clear indication as to why. However, some claim they can access the website without any problems.
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Jokes about anal sex, girl-on-girl porn and forced fellatio are common on the CBS hit-comedy 2 Broke Girls, and while the show boasts ratings that helped salvage the network’s Monday-night lineup, some viewers have had enough.
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We all know that China, Iran and some other governments block access to certain websites, but did you know the British Government does too?
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The Chinese government has banned the sale of 'Battlefield 4' because of the content featured in the 'China Rising'-DLC.
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London -
In the New Year there will be three lectures at the British Library on censorship. Admission is free but accommodation is limited.
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Nikos Simos MEDIA
ERT morning TV show Marilena Katsimi and Kostas Arvanitis
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4th Trimester Bodies Project
A screen capture of the notice sent to the 4th Trimester Bodies Project about the removal of a post.
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Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper
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4th Trimester Bodies Project
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Against internet censorship
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A man protesting Internet censorship
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4th Trimester Bodies Project
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4th Trimester Bodies Project
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A screengrab of an e-mail from Fredrick Töben.
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4th Trimester Bodies Project
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A screengrab of the About page of the self-styled Online Hate Prevention Institute.
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A screengrab from an e-mail by Dr Fredrick Töben which exposes the censorship of YouTube videos by Zionist hatemongers.
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The Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris
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