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| UK News | Michael Foot Free speech campaigner and politician dies aged 96 | 4th Mar |
| World News | EIRIN Film censors of Japan | 4th Mar |
| Middle East | Censored Noted Iranian film maker arrested over support for opposition | 4th Mar |
| West Europe | God Almighty! Italian football federation bans 'god' cusses | 4th Mar |
| South Asia | War Censorship Afghanistan bans the filming of military strikes | 4th Mar |
| West Europe | On Par with Zimbabwe RAI suspends TV political talk shows in run up to regional elections | 3rd Mar |
| Aussie News | National Day of Action Stop the Filter and Block the Filter protests | 3rd Mar |
| Middle East | Dam Censorship Egyptian Supreme Court throws out government ban on President Nasser movie | 3rd Mar |
| Aussie News | Next Mandatory TV Filtering? Australia to develop its own TV parental control standard | 3rd Mar |
| Asia Pacific | Censor Power Film makers criticise state control embodied in new film censorship law | 3rd Mar |
| Middle East | Press Under Attack Iran targets opposition newspapers for closure | 3rd Mar |
| Middle East | Bad Marks for Egypt UN criticises lack of freedom of expression | 3rd Mar |
| Africa News | No Kano Do Religious police ban music festival in Nigeria | 3rd Mar |
| UK News | Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Britain to ban open Wi-Fi hotspots | 2nd Mar |
| East Europe | A Destructive Character Kazakhstan sets up internet censorship centre | 2nd Mar |
| Aussie News | Opposing a Censorial Government Australian opposition parties speak favourably of R18+ for games | 2nd Mar |
| UK News | Sexualisation of Young People Review The 36 recommendations | 2nd Mar |
| Aussie News | An Adult Approach to Censorship Ban on games for adults fails to reflect Australian community standards | 2nd Mar |
| UK News | Po-faced Thought Police Race relations watchdog unimpressed by police over-reaction to Anyone But England football shirts | 1st Mar |
| UK News | Labour Growing Up Obsessed by Sexualisation Home Office propose UK censorship measures to curtail child 'sexualisation' | 28th Feb |
| US News | Naked Prudery Campaigners challenge art censorship in Temecula, California | 28th Feb |
| West Europe | Front Against Censorship Maltese anti-censorship group protest in Valletta | 28th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Morality Committee Cambodia sets up committee to specify websites to block | 28th Feb |
| US News | Kick-Ass Trailers Red band trailer hype | 27th Feb |
| Aussie News | Ruddy Well Won't Apologise Kevin Rudd responds to internet filtering TV questions | 27th Feb |
| UK News | The Devils Warner Brothers are sitting on the Director's Cut of The Devils | 27th Feb |
| UK News | Dangerous Books Salman Rushdie to tell his story about life under threat of death | 27th Feb |
| Middle East | Coming Down Hard UAE bans Heavy Rain video game | 27th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Australia Inspires the Repressive Indonesia looks to Australia's internet censoring proposal | 27th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Clearing the Airwaves Thai Radio stations had been warned in the run up to Thaksin asset seizure case | 27th Feb |
| UK News | Shrink Me Windows Odeon cinemas refuse to show Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland | 26th Feb |
| Aussie News | Head in the Clouds Oz censorship debate censored on Comms minister's website | 26th Feb |
| Aussie News | Grow Up Australia Major Australian retailer supports R18+ for video games | 26th Feb |
| US News | Vaguely Constitutional John Stagliano fails to convince court that obscenity laws are unconstitutional | 26th Feb |
| UK News | Would You let this Man Censor the Internet? Opposition unites against powers to let the government change censorship of the internet without consultation | 25th Feb |
| West Europe | Justice Gives Way to Victim Advocacy Google execs sentenced for bullying video posted on YouTube | 25th Feb |
| East Europe | Potential to Destroy Belarus Council for Morality bans Rammstein gig in Belarus | 25th Feb |
| UK News | Anyone But England Police have a word with Scottish T-Shirt company | 25th Feb |
| Aussie News | A Stereotypically Censorial Race Australia quick to propose extending state internet filtering facilities to include alleged racist material | 25th Feb |
| South Asia | Internet Unblocked Indian internet censors ease up on porn | 25th Feb |
| Middle East | Cutting the Good with the Bad UN urges Bahrain's internet censors to ease down | 25th Feb |
| UK News | Fighting Back Quacks Simon Singh has his day in the Court of Appeal | 24th Feb |
| UK News | Turning the Airwaves Brown Paxman forced to apologise after reading Gordon Brown's words | 24th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Meet the Censor Chinese censors to interview all prospective webmasters | 24th Feb |
| UK News | Today is a good day for free expression Select Committee reports on privacy and libel | 24th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Yake Lizard Chinese netizens seize on propaganda pun to represent the internet censor | 23rd Feb |
| UK News | Ofcom Bare their Fangs Man with talent for eating snakes alive does not impress the TV censor | 22nd Feb |
| Aussie News | Unwanted Australian online public not impresses by mandatory state internet censorship | 22nd Feb |
| West Europe | Unblockable Internet Blocking Law Unwanted German internet censorship law comes into force | 22nd Feb |
| West Europe | Blinkered Lawmakers France introduces website filtering for MPs | 22nd Feb |
| UK News | Unsafe Propaganda Government to tell TV producers to include more references to condoms and STDs | 21st Feb |
| UK News | Potential for Abuse Scottish ministers consider new offence of sending threatening or harassing emails | 21st Feb |
| UK News | A Sexualised Government Government report to recommend magazine age ratings and photoshop warning on all glamour images | 21st Feb |
| West Europe | Modernisation Protest against censorship in Malta | 21st Feb |
| UK News | Back in Court Simon Singh due in Court of Appeal | 20th Feb |
| West Europe | Putting the Guns Down and Sharing a Prayer Israel whinges at Spanish art exhibit | 20th Feb |
| Middle East | Culturally Immoral ECHR rule against Turkey's ban on book considered part of European literary heritage | 20th Feb |
| West Europe | Brutal in Berlin Supporting the hype for The Killer Inside Me | 20th Feb |
| West Europe | Earn Less Work More Chinese artist finds political play on Sarkozy words censored in Paris | 20th Feb |
| UK News | Hard Apology US campaign against the word 'retard' comes to the UK | 19th Feb |
| UK News | Press Censor Escapes Ban Parliamentary committee considers PCC and libel reform | 19th Feb |
| West Europe | Government Blocking Blocked Protests against Polish government internet censorship achieve a 'rethink' | 19th Feb |
| West Europe | Putting the Swiss Knife into Video Games? A ban on 'killer games' to be put before Swiss parliament | 19th Feb |
| West Europe |
Free Speech Haven Iceland considers proposals to become the world's first free speech haven |
19th Feb |
| World News | Filtering out the Criticism New Zealand quietly moves close to implementing state internet filtering | 19th Feb |
| Aussie News | Censor Cuts Mean Income Cuts Australian video games trade organisation, iGEA, criticises lack of R18+ | 19th Feb |
| Aussie News | Australian State Discrimination Discriminatory ban on Aboriginal access to porn slammed | 19th Feb |
| US News | The R Word US campaign against the word 'retard' | 18th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Fearful of Comment 200 lèse majesté cases in Thai courts | 18th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Buggered Jokey image of politicians gets Malaysian blogger arrested | 18th Feb |
| Aussie News | Serial Censorship Australian censors ignored by magazine publishers | 18th Feb |
| Aussie News | Interview with a Censor AustraliaGamer interview games censor | 18th Feb |
| World News | One Blur Fits All International TV censorship reinforces homophobia | 17th Feb |
| Aussie News | Refused Censorship Australian Library Association joins in the criticism of internet censorship plan | 17th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Gothika Filipina 2 Art censored in Kuala Lumpur to be exhibited in Manila | 17th Feb |
| UK News | Named as Incompetent Government retreats over Internet Domain Name Registries | 17th Feb |
| West Europe | Over Blocking Assured French internet blocking being fast tracked | 16th Feb |
| Aussie News | Disappearing Childhood The Art Censorship Guide published in Australia | 16th Feb |
| US News | State Censorship Organisers of New Mexico adult film festival fined | 16th Feb |
| World News | Pig's Nipples at Facebook Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding is Not Obscene! | 15th Feb |
| Americas | High on Columbian Telenovelas Panamanian president has a whinge at Columbian telenovelas | 15th Feb |
| UK News | A Legal Reminder Server location is ruled irrelevant to the internet posting of racially inflammatory material | 15th Feb |
| US News | Cartoon Justice US man jailed for 6 months for possessing Japanese anime | 14th Feb |
| Americas | Blame it on Rio Killjoy Rio mayor accused of ruining carnival fun | 14th Feb |
| Middle East | Gcensors Gmail blocked in Iran | 14th Feb |
| UK News | Dave Blame Demonising Films is Child’s Play | 14th Feb |
| West Europe | TV Dumbed Down Berlusconi effectively bans TV politics shows for regional election | 13th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Religion of No Love Valentine's Day not for Brunei | 13th Feb |
| Aussie News | High Score R18+ for games consultation off to a very positive start | 13th Feb |
| East Europe | Showing Uzbekistan in a Bad Light Photographer found guilty of defamation of Uzbekistan | 13th Feb |
| Middle East | The Lost Appeal of Saudi Justice Man given extreme sentence for boasting about his sex life loses his appeal | 13th Feb |
| West Europe | Foot in the Door Concerns as French lawmakers approve internet censorship in the name of child protection | 12th Feb |
| US News | Lowest Common Denominator US court rules that the legality of porn is determined by the most repressive 'community' in the US | 12th Feb |
| West Europe | An Education in Censorship Malta proposes to replace police censorship by government censorship | 12th Feb |
| Aussie News | Conroy Down the U Tube Google refuses to censor Australia's wide range of banned YouTube videos | 11th Feb |
| Aussie News | Operation Titstorm Anonymous fight back against Australia's ludicrous ban on young looking adults in porn | 10th Feb |
| West Europe | Saviour Censor Maltese authorities get wound up by festival song lyrics and people dressing up as Jesus | 10th Feb |
| West Europe | Day Time Porn Banned Berlusconi has stepped up his campaigns against his television rivals | 10th Feb |
| South Asia | Bad History Indian film makers and censor taken to court over the depiction of history | 10th Feb |
| Middle East | Dangerous Words Book seized at Cairo Book Fair over criticism of repressive Libya | 10th Feb |
| West Europe | Italy Screams Supporting the scary hype for Paranormal Activity | 9th Feb |
| West Europe | Hands off the Net Italian parliamentarians request that the government back off from treating bloggers and YouTube as broadcasters | 9th Feb |
| UK News | Ratty Australia I'm a celebrity TV show fined for cruel bush tucker | 9th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Slashed Indonesian slasher movie banned in Malaysia | 9th Feb |
| UK News | Ofcom Abuse Sri Lanka used Ofcom to curb Channel 4 News reports | 8th Feb |
| Americas | Twitter Ethics Mexico gets wound up my motorists who warn others about police checkpoints via Twitter | 8th Feb |
| Asia Pacific | Expanding Repression China's action against porn websites extends to advertisers, and payment services providers | 7th Feb |
| Middle East | Registered as Repressive Iraq proposes the licensing of media outlets and journalists | 7th Feb |
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| Hall Of Shame "I don't believe in censorship BUT...." |
| World Censors Index | Censors: Ireland Recent developments in Irish film censorship (Dec 2008) |
| Censors: China Lost in Beijing Chinese film censors explain secret decision making (Dec 2007) | |
| Censors: Australia Censoring the Insensible Australia's new censor outlines his approach (Oct 2007) | |
| Censors: Thailand Ministry of Censorial Culture (March 2007) | |
| Censors: New Zealand An Interview with Bill Hastings (Oct 2006) | |
| Censors: Italy Censorship of movies, video & TV (Feb 2006) | |
| Censors: Germany Video Censorship | |
| Censors: USA The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) | |
| Censors: Japan A Short Introduction to Japanese Censorship (offsite Oct 2006) |
Research |
Games: Latest: Games research suggests that violence is not necessary for fun (Jan 2009) |
| Internet: Latest: Internet grooming not such a risk as claimed (Jan 2009) | |
| Media Latest: Ten things wrong with the ‘effects model’ (April 2008) | |
| Television & Films: Latest: Violent Films Cut Crime (Jan 2008) |
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