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Censorship
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Queen’s ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ Removed, Deemed Not Child-Friendly For New ‘Greatest Hits’ Release
22 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The song was a part of the original 1981 greatest hits album that also included classics such as Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You. For die-hard fans of the music, the missing Fat Bottomed Girls track leaves a void that doesn’t make sense.
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China Scolds US For Banning TikTok In Ironic Twist
02 Mar 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Blaming the move on America’s own ‘insecurities’, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson seems to forget that the makers of all our favourite plastic toys also ban Facebook, Twitter, and whatever apps don’t agree with the ruling party’s communist-ish views.
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Roald Dahl’s Books To Be Released In Original Format After Backlash To Proposed Rewrites
28 Feb 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Roald Dahl has always been a controversial figure and has been accused of racism, misogyny and antisemitism, something his family has apologised for in the past.
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China’s World Cup Censorship Is Beyond Ridiculous [Videos]
29 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China’s zero-COVID policies have driven many to breaking point and it doesn’t help when you turn on the telly to see footage of maskless crowds having a great time.
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TIME Explains Why Chloe Zhao’s Oscar Win Was Censored In China
30 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Chinese state-run media outlets and social media sites in China censored the incredible news of Chloe Zhao’s Oscar victory. Here’s why.
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Is Instagram Censoring ‘Fat’ People? Or Just Nudity?
12 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
When it comes to removing content or deeming content unsuitable, the rules on several social media platforms are often unclear, and at times seemingly absurd.
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Facebook Explains The Correct Way To Squeeze A Woman’s Breasts
02 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Facebook has some very specific guidelines on what does and doesn’t constitute breast squeezing.
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See What Happens When Someone Makes A Twitter Account That Copies Everything Trump Tweets
08 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Twitter has long been criticised for letting Trump get away with tweeting things that would get the average user banned from the platform.
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The BBC Are Censoring Women’s Cleavages Now [Video]
19 Nov 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The BBC have come under fire for blurring out footage that showed cleavage. Not nude breasts, but rather the actual cleavage line.
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This Is How Bad South Africa’s Big Brother Censoring Is Getting
29 Feb 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
The SABC has kinda messed up a bit when it banned all incoming calls during its various talk shows – and now they just might pay for it.
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This Is Why Instagram Won’t Free The Nipple
06 Oct 2015 by Sloane Hunter / 1 Comment
For over a year now campaigners for #freethenipple have wondered why Instagram kept deleting users’ images of female nips. But now, all has been explained. About time.
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WATCH: F#@!ing Nemo [VIDEO]
26 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
All it takes for your dirty mind to ruin a children’s movie is by adding a couple of bleeps and pixelated censoring. Unnecessary censorship turns ‘Finding Nemo’ into an R-rated movie. Just watch and let your filthy imagination do the rest.
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Check Out The Stuff That Gets Censored On China’s Twitter
15 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
We tend to forget the privilege that is Freedom of Speech. Countries like China, who are ruled by an oppressive one-party regime, face daily instances of censorship – especially on their social media sites.
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The Secret ‘Identity Swaps,’ Google Is Helping People In Oppressed Nations Get Online
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Google, while subtly taking over the world, have always fought the good fight in terms of free access to information and connectivity. On Monday, Google will kick-off a few new methods that they hope might level the playing fields, and help those under oppressive regimes sidestep oppression and censorship.
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More SABC Censorship: Metro FM Show Cancelled Minutes Before Airing
05 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Last night, minutes before a MetroFM DJ was due to hold an interview about the ANC’s upcoming elective conference, the hand of censorship showed up and the interview was canned.
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Twitter Has Officially Silenced Its First Account Ever
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the first move of its kind, Twitter has officially banned the account of a German neo-Nazi group. The action came after a request from German police, who claimed the account holders were a “criminal organisation”.
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US Business Giants Skittish About Foreign Governments’ Threats To Internet
31 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
American tech companies are increasingly wary of a growing movement to hand control of the Internet over to the United Nations, led by China, Russia and Arab states. They are worried that this could empower foreign governments to restrict free speech and civil rights, not to mention negatively affecting the bottom line for Silicon Valley giants including Google and Microsoft.
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FPB Exec Suggests Board Has A Duty To Suppress Criticism Of Political Leaders
30 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the dust settles between the ANC and the Goodman Gallery, all that’s left is for the Film and Publications Board to render their decision on the classification of our dear leader’s “umthondo” after a fraught hearing yesterday, but the how do you classify as offensive something that is no longer visibly offensive? And, what is the connection to “political criticism” in South Africa?
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China’s Twitter To Introduce Points System To Crackdown On Misuse
28 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese users of online Twitter-alike Weibo can expect extra restrictions to the service in the wake of complaints from several authorities that users were publishing “false rumours” on the site, namely a “points system” to track and punish offensive posts.
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
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Meet CISPA, The Latest Bill To Try And Destroy The Internet
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new bill is making its way through congress – CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is pretty much SOPA in different shoes. It’s another attempt to give copyright enforces carte blanche to spy on internet users and censor online content without just cause. Which is sort of bad.
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Iran To Cut Off Internet, Completely
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Iran’s government, not wanting to be outdone by other censorship-crazed nations like China, North Korea, and Great Britain, are taking things to the next level – they are cutting off the internet, permanently. As always, they only have their citizens’ best interests at heart.
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Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
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Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the past few years social media has transformed the proliferation of information, particularly mainstream news. It’s now almost more likely that you’ll first learn about breaking news on your Facebook feed or Twitter account than from a legitimate news source. That’s all about to change.
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Google Blacked Out For SOPA Too
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.
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Google Now Censoring The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, & Other File-Sharing Services
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google seems to be dabbling in the censorship game too, these days. They’ve added sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, and 4Shared to their “blacklist”, which doesn’t prevent the pages from showing up if searched for, but does prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete services.
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ANC WikiPedia Page Suffers Sustained Hacks
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the wake of Parliament’s majority vote to send the controversial Protection of Information Bill to the National Council of Provinces for consideration, the ANC’s Wikipedia has suffered numerous mischievious revisions, or hacks.The information under the heading “Controversy over corrupt members” appears to have been censored, or redacted, in a style similar to a government-censored document. You need to see what these guys did.
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China Further Tightens Its Strict Censorship Laws
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is renowned for its seemingly ridiculous stance on freedom of speech and the proliferation of unauthorised news – a stance which has seen prominent members of society detained without legitimate explanation and popular social networks such as Facebook banned. Now, it seems, actions like that were only the beginning.
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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Elton John Magazine Cover Censored
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A supermarket in Arkansas has caused a stir by placing a ‘family shield’ in front of the US Weekly cover which features Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, cradling their adopted baby boy. NSFW if your screen is within the vicinity of small homophobic children.
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