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China releases new guidelines on censorship of online comments and 'likes'
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid anti-government views and posts in the wake of the massive public protests across the country over Covid lockdowns and a fresh outbreak, China released new guidelines on the censorship of online comments and 'likes', writes Thu Dao in the Indo-Pacific Center for Strategic Communications
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China enforces cyberspace censorship rules to supress information flow
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime using the internet and mobile technologies to censor content that goes against the CCP image
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Sharp online criticism worries censorship specialists in China
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This comes even as Chinese authorities and internet service providers have for years been monitoring and removing online content that contradicts the narrative set by the Chinese Government.
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Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party has fallen into a censorship trap, say
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Ge Chen, who is an assistant professor in Global Media and Information Law at Durham Law School, argued that "Xi and his party have fallen into a censorship trap."
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UN slams Twitter's 'arbitrary' suspension of journalists
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Dujarric said media voices should not be silenced on a platform that professes to be a space for freedom of speech. The spokesperson said this move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing censorship, physical threats, and even worse.
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"Even now, questions are being raised on civil liberties and freedom of ex
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, on Thursday, inaugurated the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival and had a lengthy speech on British censorship, pre-independence films against oppressors, communalism, and societal harmony.
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US lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The legislation is called the Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act (ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act) and is expected to protect Americans by blocking and prohibiting all transactions from a
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'Twitter Files' released by Elon Musk detailing censorship and suppression
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, who began posting a series of tweets revealing the inner story about the decision behind the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story. "The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter
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Elon Musk to release files on 'Hunter Biden story' censor
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Taking to Twitter, Musk said, "What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5 pm ET!"
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China should respect people's right to peaceful protest: Human Rights Watc
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
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Amid protests, China censors maskless crowd shots from FIFA WC broadcast
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, citing South China Morning Post, the CCTV's sports channel snipped images of fans without masks during the match between Costa Rica and Japan. It replaced them with images of players and other officials.
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Saga of Pakistan: Censorship, prison state
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 2 (ANI): Pakistan recently celebrated its 75th Independence Day on August 14 and weeks after its anniversary, the country's media regulatory authority, PEMRA, placed a ban on live telecast of the speeches of Imran Khan, a former Prime Minister. It also blocked Y
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