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Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial
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Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content
Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.
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Censorship: lifting the lid on those calling all the shots -- Meet The Censors
From a Kafkaesque office for social media in Germany and a South Sudan military headquarters, to conversations with an Iranian Ayatollah and Chinese news editor, Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum intimately follows the daily working lives of the censors. With remarkable access to a secretive world, we get a rare insight into the ways information is controlled, from the Communist Party in Beijing to the corridors of power in Washington.
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How Will China Answer The Hardest AI Question Of All?
There have been numerous stories about the new generation of AI chatbots lying when asked questions. This is rightly perceived as a big issue for the technology if it is to become routinely used an…
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Chinese censors are still not over the Winnie the Pooh meme of leader Xi Jinping
Hong Kongers won’t get the chance to watch Winnie the Pooh go feral on the big screen. The March 23 release of British slasher film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, has been canceled in Hong Kong, according to a statement by distributor VII Pillars Entertainment posted to its Facebook page. No reason was cited for pulling the film.
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Thursday Night Purge: Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Tons Of High Profile Journalists
Well. Just after finishing that last post about Twitter banning the official Mastodon account on Twitter for tweeting about the ElonJet tracking account existing on Mastodon, it seems that whatever…
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‘Friends’ Is Being Censored In China And Fans Aren’t Happy
Chinese fans of the hit comedy series Friends are calling out the censorship of multiple episodes, specifically ones featuring LGBTQ content. Reuters reports multiple streamers including Tencent, Y…
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Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse.
We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society.
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Athletes warned about speaking out against China at Winter Olympics
Attendees of the Winter Olympics in Beijing have been told to be aware of the ‘Orwellian surveillance state’
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Internet censorship cost the global economy $5.5 billion in 2021, report says
Internet blackouts, social media shutdowns, and bandwidth-throttling by governments cost the global economy $5.5 a total of billion in 2021, according to an annual report by digital security and rights group Top10VPN. According to Top10VPN Myanmar's economy was most severely impacted by internet shutdowns. Myanmar's military seized power in a coup in February 2021. This was followed by extensive internet and social media shutdowns.
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US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
From calls in Virginia to burn “sexually explicit” books in a school library to a wave of challenges to titles by authors ranging from Toni Morrison to Alison Bechdel, the American Library Association is charting an unprecedented rise in attempts to ban books in libraries – many of which it believes are fuelled by organised conservative campaigns.
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Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book
Teachers in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, protested a new policy restricting books in classroom libraries.
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China to ban video games featuring same-sex relationships, ‘effeminate’ men and moral choices
China will ban video games featuring same-sex relationships, ‘effeminate’ men and moral choices, according to a leaked memo.
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'Red Roulette' Reveals The Inside Of China's Wealth-Making Machine
In his new book Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China, Desmond Shum writes about the disappearance of his ex-wife in China.
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China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown
China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality. President Xi Jinping has called for a “national rejuvenation,” with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society.
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What’s the end game for China’s crackdown on private tutoring?
Beijing’s grand plan to revamp the country’s education system is one piece of the Chinese leadership’s bigger goal to engineer a fairer society.
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Microsoft says error led to no matching Bing images for Tiananmen 'tank man'
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Friday blamed "accidental human error" for its Bing search engine not showing results for the query "tank man" in the United States and elsewhere after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.
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Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
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Australian News Sites Shocked & Upset To Learn They Don't Need To Rely On Facebook For Traffic!
I am still perplexed and confounded at how many people seem to think that Facebook is the one at fault for blocking links to news in Australia. Again, the law (that was about to be approved by the Australian Parliament despite Facebook warning them...
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Facebook moderators 'told not to discuss working conditions'
Facebook has been accused of using nondisclosure agreements to try to build a “wall of secrecy” and prevent its moderators from discussing working conditions with Leo Varadkar, the Irish tánaiste (deputy PM).
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