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Coronavirus is a Biological Weapon | Small Victories for Hong Kong
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Muting Coronavirus Anger, China Empowers Its Internet Police
Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.
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TikTok Told Moderators: Suppress Posts by the “Ugly” and Poor
THE MAKERS OF TIKTOK, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world, instructed moderators to suppress posts created by users deemed too ugly, poor, or disabled for the platform, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. These same documents show moderators were also told to censor political speech in TikTok livestreams, punishing those who harmed “national honor” or broadcast streams about “state organs such as police” with bans from the platform.
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Apple's Silence on Chinese Censorship Raises Questions About the Company's Commitment to User Privacy and Human Rights
Apple's commitment to user privacy and human rights called into question by ignoring a second request to testify before Congress on Chinese censorship and a recent vote that saw over 40% of its shareholders express that the company should stop removing apps when the Chinese government demands it.
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Apple may be forced to disclose censorship requests from China
Two major shareholder groups backed proposal that would force tech company to make new human rights commitments
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10 ways North Korea uses technology to keep its citizens in the dark about the outside world
North Korea jams radio signals and creates smartphone games to keep its people in the dark and cut them off from the outside world.
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In wake of Shutterstock’s Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values
It’s among the most iconic images of the last few decades — a picture of an unknown man standing before a line of tanks during the protests in 1989 in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. In just one shot, the photographer, Jeff Widener, managed to convey a society struggling between the freedoms of individ…
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TikTok's catastrophic handling of a teen who posted anti-China videos shows it is almost impossible to run a viral platform while following China's rules
TikTok's catastrophic public-relations fallout over its suspension of a teen girl who posted anti-China videos has shown that it's almost impossible to run a viral social-media platform while following Beijing's rules.
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Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
A majority of Americans believe the First Amendment are willing to crack down on free speech, as well as the press, according to a new poll.
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'South Park' Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
After the "Band in China" episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government, Beijing has responded by deleting all clips, episodes and discussions of the Comedy Central show.
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Australian Internet Providers Ordered to Block Eight Sites Found Hosting Christchurch Footage
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner ordered the country’s internet service providers to block eight sites for purportedly hosting footage of the Christchurch massacre, the Guardian reported Sunday, protocol officials recently outlined at this year’s G7 leader’s forum.
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Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced as Dangerous, Unconstitutional Edict
"In practice, this executive order would mean that whichever political party is in power could dictate what speech is allowed on the Internet."
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For All Of Trump's Complaints About Social Media 'Censorship', The White House Itself Moderates Content Similarly To Social Media Sites
As you may have heard, a couple weeks ago, President Trump hosted what he called a "social media summit," where he brought in various Trump-supporting social media people, and where they all got to whine about the completely made up concept...
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‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
Reporters were once a force for accountability in China. But President Xi Jinping has brought about what critics call a “total censorship era.”
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UK government quietly cancels the "no sex please we're British" internet plan
UK government quietly cancels "age verification" system that would have compiled a database of every Briton's sexual fantasies
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Washington Post, Guardian fall victim to China’s ‘Great Firewall’
Newspapers’ sites had until recently been among the few major English-language outlets still regularly accessible in mainland China.
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The Great Firewall of China blocks off Wikipedia
And it's not because of students cheating on research papers.
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Ban on banana-eating artwork draws ridicule in Poland
Poland's artists and opposition politicians are posting photos of themselves eating bananas in protest after the country's authorities called an artwork featuring the fruit...
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How Russia wants to control the internet
All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial 'sovereign internet' bill into law. This is part of the Kremlin's wider aim to control internet access for Russians, which critics say is a form of censorship.
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'Inconceivable': Brazil top court backs down on news censorship
Brazil's Attorney-General had accused the nation's highest court of violating the constitution in ordering the withdrawal of news articles.
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