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News Monday 23rd April...

Internet News

Grossly offensive prosecution
Free speech hero Count Dankula fined 800 pounds for Nazi pug Youtube gag

Internet News

Commented: Hurt feelings in Liverpool
Woman convicted for commonly used racial insults from a rap song, that are then ramped up to 'hate' crimes by the personal perception of the investigating police officer

Internet News

Concentrating on what it does best
IWF publishes its annual report for 2017 and notes that it now longer has the role to censor adult porn on the internet

Internet News

Extract: Id required for social media users
Yet more internet censorship laws on the way in Russia

News Sunday 22nd April...

Internet News

Parents will be driven nuts if their kids can't spend all day on YouTube and Facebook
Jeremy Hunt demands that social media companies immediately ban under 13s from using their apps and websites

Internet News

Web host Cloudfare bans sex workers social media site, Switter
America's new FOSTA censorship law is proving devastatingly effective as adult consensual sex work related content has already been deleted from the US internet

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Right To Be Forgotten
Should Google Decide Alone? By Ray Walsh

Media Censorship

Ofcom are the UK TV censors who regulate UK commercial TV via broadcast, cable and satellite.

The BBC regulate themselves and UK Internet TV will soon have to submit to a basic level of regulation

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Games News

21st Apr

Player Unknowns in Censorship Battlegrounds
Netherlands censors put 4 video games on notice that they will be banned if they don't remove loot boxes

Internet News

20th Apr

Don't forget the BBFC age verification consultation ends on Monday
Note that BBFC has now re-opened its web pages with the consultation details

Movie News

Poster Little Vampire 3d 2017 Richard Claus and Karsten Kiiler

The Little Vampire
Children's cartoon required BBFC category cuts for a U rated cinema release

Movie News

Cinema returns to Saudi Arabia after 37 years of being banned
And of course the first film was cut by the censors

Internet News

19th Apr

European Production Orders
The EU proposes that mass snooping data must be produced by internet companies with 6 hours of a police request

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Old injustices
Facebook found to be issuing posting punishments for years old posts that were OK at the time but are now contrary to recently updated censorship rules

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Internet users left searching for help
Google has redesigned its tools so that anti-censorship tools can no longer user Google as a proxy to evade state internet blocking

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Whois confused.com
Time has run out and the internet overlords are still confused about what to do about the domain 'whois' service that will soon be illegal under EU GDPR privacy protection.

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Facebook responds to the EU GDPR privacy requirements
With a pretty new settings pages that boil down to either consenting to Facebook tracking your internet use or else deleting your Facebook account

TV News

18th Apr

Ofcom get heavy with RT seemingly with an intent to ban it
The government does not like Russian propaganda channel casting doubt about Salisbury murder attempt and the Syrian chemical weapon attack

Internet News

Russians don't play games
Russia blocks thousands of websites connected to casino games and sports betting

Internet News

Threatening clouds
Russia blocks millions of websites to try and force hosting companies to take down the encrypted messenger app, Telegram

Music News

Rotting Christ
Heavy metal band jailed as they enter Georgia for gig

Games News

17th Apr

Agonising cuts
Publishers explain that they are having to censor the upcoming video game, Agony, to get an ESRB M rating

Internet News

Updated: Just sayin' but the most strident anti-gay politicians often turn out to be gay themselves
Chinese social media site Weibo launches a 3 month campaign against gay content

Internet News

16th Apr

Russia fails to steam open the envelopes
As Russian court announces Telegram ban, users stand defiant, amused... and worried

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Podcast: Podcast: Steve Winyard - Age Verification and AV Secure
Perhaps the most hopeful age verification technology where you can be age verified for porn at your local supermarket without providing any ID whatsoever

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: The Full Treatment
Movie-Censorship.com reveals a scene cut from previous releases of this Hammer thriller but now restored for 2018 Blu-ray

Previous Media

Internet News

6th Feb

A new YouTube badge will mark state propaganda
YouTube announces that it will indicate when news videos are from state funded sources

Internet News

Offsite Article: Russia's Internet Censorship on the rise
A new report has revealed the escalating internet censorship situation in Russia, with a record number of cases being reported in the past year.

Tech News

5th Feb

Extract: Deepfakery
Trailblazing censorship for the trailblazing technology of fake celebrity porn videos

Internet News

Offsite Article: When censorship is left to commercial interests that are not interested
Private Censorship Is Not the Best Way to Fight Hate or Defend Democracy: Here Are Some Better Ideas. By the EFF

Stage News

4th Feb

Taking a bow
Royal Court theatre in London pulls drama about Tibet for fear of offending China

TV News

Seeking brownie points
Piers Morgan is 'outraged' by an arse licking cartoon broadcast by the BBC

Art News

Offsite Article: Caravaggio killed a man. Should we therefore censor his art?
To remove art because it is tainted by the sins of its maker sets an impossible standard for art institutions. Yet that is what is happening. By Svetlana Mintcheva

Tech News

3rd Feb

Offsite Article: The Internet of Dongs
Hacking sex toys for security and privacy

Internet News

2nd Feb

Introducing the British Board of Film and Internet Censors
Houses of Commons and Lords approve the appointment of the BBFC as the UK's internet porn censor

Internet News

Offsite Article: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
XBiz publishes an interesting technical report on how the various age verification tools will work

Internet News

The Origin of Facebook's World
Facebook defends art censorship case in France saying that the complaint has been made to the wrong part of the company

Music News

To Muslim zealots' dismay, Indonesians love raunchy dangdut music
The law against performances of people dancing or moving in an erotic fashion is not universally observed

Movie News

1st Feb

Fifty Shades Freed
Passed 18 uncut by the BBFC, but few other western countries consider that it is needs an adults only rating

Advert News

ASA's top 10 adverts for 2017
As judged by amount of easily offended whingers that were wound up

Internet News

But at least it helps keeps China's businesses out of the west
China official bans censor evading VPNs from the end of March

Phone News

Blued out
Gay dating apps banned from Google Play Store on orders from the Indonesian government

Internet News

31st Jan

Extract: A phishers, scammers and blackmailers' charter
Broadband Genie survey reveals that only 11 to 20% of people will be happy providing identity data for age verification purposes

Internet News

Government abusers
Appeals court finds that the Government's snooping law is an abuse of rights

Internet News

Opposing fake copies of copyright law
BT and EE go to Supreme Court opposing unfunded court requirements to block trademark abusing websites when there is no law to enable such blocks

Tech News

Cutting out the middleman
Firefox browser to support peer to peer internet protocols that allow users to bypass government censorship and surveillance

Internet News

Censorship tyranny
Virginia lawmaker proposes a $20 tax charge for internet users to be able to access adult websites

Stage News

30th Jan

Censorship Diktat
Stage play, Only a dictator is banned in Turkey's major cities

Art News

Offsite Article: Moralist Upsurge in Brazil Revives Censorship of the Arts
The offensive affects the artistic world in general, not just the shows or exhibitions that have been directly cancelled in recent months.

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