Censorship News

Washington - A newly declassified memo indicates the CIA's relationship with Zero Dark Thirty movie was one of complicity. Approved for release on April 22 this year it offers a pithy summary of five conference calls held between Zero Dark Thirty writers and the CIA.

Kuwait - The cabinet of Kuwait has approved a new media law that severely restricts freedom of the press and free speech; including bloggers and people using FaceBook, Twitter or other social media.

The Iranian Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has stepped up its censorship campaign by blocking VPN's that enable millions of Iranians to surf the internet freely and untrammeled by regime imposed filters.

Having taken on and beaten the banks, the tiny nation of Iceland is now gearing up to take on the porn industry. This action is applauded by David Duke as a blow against Jewish supremacy, but he doesn't see the bigger picture.

Tehran - Press TV reports that it has been taken off the air in North America. It has been dropped from the Galaxy 19 satellite platform that allowed broadcasts both in Canada and the US.

Sydney - Australia Day, Jan. 26 is coming up, and Dick Smith, well-known and generally not loathed Australian entrepreneur made an ad for his 100% Australian-owned brand for the occasion. He ran into trouble with the Advertising Council- for Dick jokes.

For the first time in more than two decades, hundreds gathered with journalists outside one of China's most influential papers on Monday, staging a strike to protest the Communist Party’s censorship of press freedom.

As part of its wide-ranging democratic reforms, the new government of Myanmar will start accepting applications from publishers who want to go into newspaper business starting February 2013.

Reports that Facebook is censoring Architects for 9/11 Truth and other whackos is a complete misunderstanding of the meaning of both censorship and truth.

Recently, Facebook has removed the pages of about 50 political activists. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth founder Richard Gage lost his page, as did several other activists. Later, the pages were reactivated.