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News Friday 17th August...

Internet News

Real news
The return of Dr M is proving good for Malaysia as a recent censorship law, supposedly targeting fake news, is repealed

News Thursday 16th August...

Movie News

Thin end of a PC wedge
Late studio cuts renders Slender Man a little disjointed

Internet News

Letting politicians know that people's opposition is real
Europe organises street protests against internet censorship machines and link tax

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: The Future of Porn Is Only Getting Worse
Vice interviews award-winning feminist adult film maker Erika Lust about the impact of FOSTA/SESTA on porn, the problem with age verification checks, and the value of education over regulation.

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Internet News

15th Aug

Extract: Sorry... your search for 'trust' finds no results on Google.com
Google found to be tracking the location of users who have turned off location tracking

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Beware the digital censor
We should be extremely careful before rushing to embrace an Internet that is moderated by a few private companies, where the platforms routinely remove posts and deactivate accounts because of objections to the content. By David Greene

Movie News

14th Aug

Rated Adults Only with Caution
Indian MP introduces bill to reduce the censorship powers of the CBFC

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: The other 'brute force method'
Australia opts out of back door requirements for encryption providers and instead chooses the approach: 'give me your key or else I'll break your legs'

Movie News

13th Aug

Parents TV Council recommends
Eighth Grade, as screened at events where the R rating age restrictions were relaxed

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Banned: I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
A pre Deja Vu recap by Sam Inglis

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: The Misfits: The Producer's Private Cut
A deleted Marilyn Monroe nude scene turns up

Stage News

12th Aug

Inappropriate misappropriation
French play cancelled after being on the receiving end of 'aggressive controversy'

TV News

On a personal whim
Victorian government bans Sky News from its railway stations over a politically incorrect interview not actually screened on the station service

Internet News

Killing speech softly
How the world's biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East

Music News

This is Nigeria
Land of music censorship and repression

Games News

11th Aug

Symbolic changes at the USK
German games censor will no longer ban those Nazi images that are excluded from a wider German law for historical or artistic reasons

Internet News

World leading endangerment
The New Zealand government is eyeing the UK internet porn censorship regime

Internet News

Commented: Conspiracy theory comes true
US technology giants prove that they are biased against the right, and censor Alex Jones' Infowars

Internet News

10th Aug

More misery in Indonesia
The government forces ISPs to set search engines and YouTube into restricted mode

TV News

Guardians of repression
China bans Sci-Fi drama over gay lead characters

Internet News

9th Aug

Censorship and control
American politicians are debating the need for internet regulation of social media

Movie News

7th Aug

The Festival
Inbetweeners style comedy cut for a 15 rated cinema release

Book News

6th Aug

Book burners
Masked protestors attack left wing book shop wrecking displays and tearing up books

Advert News

Don't mention the 'w' word
New Zealand advert censor rejects ludicrous claims about an advert introducing a white chocolate biscuit

Internet News

5th Aug

Unfinished business
Open Rights Group comments on the missed milestone of publishing final age verification guidelines before Parliament's summer recess

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Internet shutdowns
Internet censorship in Africa threatens democracy and the economy

Movie News

4th Aug

Adult humour
Deadpool 2 Super Duper Cut momentarily rated 18 in Ireland

Movie News

Poster Christopher Robin 2018 Marc Forster

I don't feel very much like Pooh today, said Jinping.
China bans Christopher Robin due to sensitivity of the Winnie the Pooh character being used to mock President Xi

Internet News

2nd Aug

Google is developing a censored search engine for China
No doubt western governments will soon be calling for Google to deploy the same technology in their countries

Internet News

First social media tax, now porn blocking
Uganda's internet censors introduce porn website blocking with an initial list of 27 sites

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: New Halloween movie gets an MPAA R rating
The producers would have been burned at the stake had they tried to release a PG-13 movie

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