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Why Elon Musk’s X Is Against California’s Law Targeting Deepfakes, Deceptive Election Content
- Saturday November 16, 2024
- World News | Edited by NDTV News Desk
X argued that the Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 violates the First Amendment and can “result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech”.
- www.ndtv.com
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Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
- Tuesday February 13, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Sri Lanka said Tuesday it would amend its strict new internet censorship law after opposition from global tech giants, who risked criminal prosecutions for content shared on social media.
- www.ndtv.com
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Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
- Thursday December 21, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Human Rights Watch accused Meta on Thursday of restricting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, decrying "systemic online censorship" since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
- www.ndtv.com
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Fact-Check Provision In New IT Rules Is Press Censorship: Newspapers Body
- Wednesday April 12, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
The Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday said the provision in IT Rules, 2021 amendments allowing a fact-check body to label contents related to it "fake" or "misleading" is tantamount to "censorship" and violates of freedom of expression.
- www.ndtv.com
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Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
- Monday March 13, 2023
- Reuters
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form. A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platf...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Pakistan Threatens Wikipedia With Ban Over "Blasphemous Content"
- Friday February 3, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove "blasphemous content" from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country.
- www.ndtv.com
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TikTok Could Face US Ban as Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Bid to Block App Over Spying, Censorship Concerns
- Wednesday December 14, 2022
- Reuters
TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.
- www.gadgets360.com
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WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
- Tuesday July 19, 2022
- ANI
WPS Office developer Kingsoft responded to censorship criticism on Monday after a writer’s document containing over a million words was frozen, over “sensitive content”. The word processing program that's part of China's most downloaded domestically produced suite of office applications, stated that it had restricted third-party access to an ...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Social Media Firms Object to Personal Liability of Employees Under IT Rules, Industry Study Says
- Tuesday July 5, 2022
- Press Trust of India
A majority of social media companies are opposed to the provision under the IT Rules to hold chief compliance officers personally liable for ensuring compliance with the Act and rules. The study revealed that personal liability could lead to increased censorship of content due to concerns of employee safety. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electronics a...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Twitter Ordered to Censor Tweets, Handles Critical of Indian Government's Internet Censorship, More: Report
- Tuesday June 28, 2022
- Sourabh Kulesh
Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Russia Says Cases Opened Against Google, Others For Personal Data Legislation Violation
- Saturday May 28, 2022
- Reuters
Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor says it opened administrative cases against Alphabet's Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations of personal data legislation.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Facebook, Instagram Censored Palestinian Content, Alleges Rights Group
- Friday October 8, 2021
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan Calls For Censoring Obscene Content On Digital Platforms
- Monday January 25, 2021
- India News | Press Trust of India
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday underlined the need to censor "obscene" content on OTT (Over The Top) platforms and said the Centre is seriously thinking in this regard.
- www.ndtv.com
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube May Soon Get Blocked in Russia Over ‘Censorship’
- Thursday December 24, 2020
- Agence France-Presse
Russian lawmakers moved a step closer to allowing regulators to block internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube if they are deemed to have censored content produced by Russians.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Google, Facebook, Twitter, More Tech Giants Threaten to Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Rules
- Saturday November 21, 2020
- Associated Press
Internet and technology companies have threatened to leave Pakistan after the government granted blanket powers to authorities to censor digital content, a move critics say was aimed at curtailing freedom of expression in the conservative Islamic nation.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Why Elon Musk’s X Is Against California’s Law Targeting Deepfakes, Deceptive Election Content
- Saturday November 16, 2024
- World News | Edited by NDTV News Desk
X argued that the Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 violates the First Amendment and can “result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech”.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
- Tuesday February 13, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Sri Lanka said Tuesday it would amend its strict new internet censorship law after opposition from global tech giants, who risked criminal prosecutions for content shared on social media.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
- Thursday December 21, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Human Rights Watch accused Meta on Thursday of restricting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, decrying "systemic online censorship" since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Fact-Check Provision In New IT Rules Is Press Censorship: Newspapers Body
- Wednesday April 12, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
The Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday said the provision in IT Rules, 2021 amendments allowing a fact-check body to label contents related to it "fake" or "misleading" is tantamount to "censorship" and violates of freedom of expression.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
- Monday March 13, 2023
- Reuters
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form. A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platf...
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Pakistan Threatens Wikipedia With Ban Over "Blasphemous Content"
- Friday February 3, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove "blasphemous content" from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country.
- www.ndtv.com
-
TikTok Could Face US Ban as Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Bid to Block App Over Spying, Censorship Concerns
- Wednesday December 14, 2022
- Reuters
TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.
- www.gadgets360.com
-
WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
- Tuesday July 19, 2022
- ANI
WPS Office developer Kingsoft responded to censorship criticism on Monday after a writer’s document containing over a million words was frozen, over “sensitive content”. The word processing program that's part of China's most downloaded domestically produced suite of office applications, stated that it had restricted third-party access to an ...
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Social Media Firms Object to Personal Liability of Employees Under IT Rules, Industry Study Says
- Tuesday July 5, 2022
- Press Trust of India
A majority of social media companies are opposed to the provision under the IT Rules to hold chief compliance officers personally liable for ensuring compliance with the Act and rules. The study revealed that personal liability could lead to increased censorship of content due to concerns of employee safety. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electronics a...
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Twitter Ordered to Censor Tweets, Handles Critical of Indian Government's Internet Censorship, More: Report
- Tuesday June 28, 2022
- Sourabh Kulesh
Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Russia Says Cases Opened Against Google, Others For Personal Data Legislation Violation
- Saturday May 28, 2022
- Reuters
Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor says it opened administrative cases against Alphabet's Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations of personal data legislation.
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Facebook, Instagram Censored Palestinian Content, Alleges Rights Group
- Friday October 8, 2021
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Shivraj Singh Chouhan Calls For Censoring Obscene Content On Digital Platforms
- Monday January 25, 2021
- India News | Press Trust of India
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday underlined the need to censor "obscene" content on OTT (Over The Top) platforms and said the Centre is seriously thinking in this regard.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube May Soon Get Blocked in Russia Over ‘Censorship’
- Thursday December 24, 2020
- Agence France-Presse
Russian lawmakers moved a step closer to allowing regulators to block internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube if they are deemed to have censored content produced by Russians.
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Google, Facebook, Twitter, More Tech Giants Threaten to Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Rules
- Saturday November 21, 2020
- Associated Press
Internet and technology companies have threatened to leave Pakistan after the government granted blanket powers to authorities to censor digital content, a move critics say was aimed at curtailing freedom of expression in the conservative Islamic nation.
- www.gadgets360.com