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After attempts at censorship, National Park Service finally releases climate change report

sudshr47 May 25, 2018

Confederate cannon balls plunged into the brick walls of Fort Sumter at the outset of the Civil War, forcing Union troops to surrender. A century and a half later, surging storm waters are now the modern threat to the South Carolina national monument…

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Eurovision cancels Chinese broadcast due to LGBTQ censorship

sudshr47 May 11, 2018

Following allegations of LBGTQ and tattoo censorship, the remainder of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will no longer be broadcast in China.
The decision comes from Eurovision’s organiser, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), who terminated the…

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Peppa Pig videos banned on Chinese social media platform for the weirdest reason

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

Peppa Pig, the sassy anti-whistling British pig of renown, is stirring up trouble in China. She’s been dubbed a “subversive” figure associated with the gangster lifestyle of young Chinese adults, and banned from a social media platform there.

More than 30,000 videos of Peppa that used the hashtag “#PeppaPig” have reportedly been deleted from the website Douyin (“Tik Tok” in English) because, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN, Peppa was “spreading negative social influence.”

Peppa Pig blocked on Chinese video app after becoming a ‘subculture icon’ https://t.co/PYoCCNRGpc by @mikehwalsh with quotes from me pic.twitter.com/jTEU65FIFL

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Telegram blocked in Iran as the government orders telecoms to cut off access

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

As Moscow erupts in protests over its own ban, Iran’s judiciary has just ordered the nation’s telecommunications providers to block Telegram . According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency stated that the decision was issued via a court ruling in Tehran. An estimated 40 million Iranians — half of the country’s […]

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Pro-Trump social media duo accuses Facebook of anti-conservative censorship

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

Following up on a recurring thread from Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional appearance earlier this month, the House held a hearing today on perceived bias against conservatives on Facebook and other social platforms. The hearing, ostensibly about “how social media companies filter content on their platforms,” focused on the anecdotal accounts of social media stars Diamond and […]

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Russia’s game of Telegram whack-a-mole grows to 19M blocked IPs, hitting Twitch, Spotify and more

sudshr47 April 19, 2018

As the messaging app Telegram continues to try to evade Russian authorities by switching up its IP addresses, Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) has continued its game of whack-a-mole to try to lock it down by knocking out complete swathes of IP address. The resulting chase how now ballooned to nearly 19 million IP addresses at […]

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As Chinese censorship intensifies, gays are back while teenage mothers and tattoos are out

sudshr47 April 16, 2018

Following the passage of a new cybersecurity law and the removal of term limits from Chinese president Xi Jinping, China’s government is conducting a comprehensive crackdown on online discussions and content, with few companies spared the rod by the central government. Among the casualties has been Bytedance, the extremely high-flying $20 billion media unicorn startup […]

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Chinese reporter’s viral eye roll gets censored on social media

sudshr47 March 14, 2018

China’s annual “two sessions” meetings are as serious as they come when it comes to political affairs.
Taking place in Beijing, the event predictably gets extensive coverage in China. Yet a viral eye roll by reporter Liang Xiangyi has upstaged the st…

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Rhode Island wants you to pay to watch sites like Pornhub

sudshr47 March 7, 2018

If some Rhode Island state lawmakers get their way, legally of-age residents of the Ocean State may soon have to pay $20 to access free online porn websites like PornHub and YouPorn.
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TEDxBrussels organizer drags presenter off stage during anti-censorship talk

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

Get ready for your head to explode.

In the middle of TEDxBrussels talk on March 5 that focused on censorship, a male event organizer walked onto the stage and physically dragged the female presenter off. And the kicker? The theme of the entire TEDx event was Brave New World — as in, yes, the Aldous Huxley book about a dystopian future wherein an all-powerful state controls the lives of its citizens.

And it only gets worse from there.

According to the TEDxBrussels website, the presenter, artist Deborah De Robertis, was in the middle of a piece addressing past censorship of her artwork. The forcible removal of her from stage was so absurd, reports the Netherlands newspaper NRC Handelsblad, that audience members initially applauded thinking it was a statement about censorship. Read more…

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