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Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
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.
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Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
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.
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China Deleting Online Videos Showing Poverty: Report
Due to propaganda and censorship, many people in China are not aware of how prevalent poverty is in the country, The New York Times reported.
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Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
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...
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Google to Stop Limited Censorship for User Search in Canada From This Week
Google will stop blocking news articles from some Canadian users' search results on March 16, a company executive told a Canadian parliamentary panel investigating the tech firm on Friday. Last month, Google started testing limited news censorship as a potential response to a Canadian government bill that aims to compel online platforms to pay publ...
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"Virus Should Just Go And Die": Anger In China Over Online Censorship
New Year's Eve in China prompted an outpouring of reflection online, some of it critical, about the strict zero-COVID policy the country adhered to for almost three years.
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China Releases New Rules On Censorship Of Online Comments, Likes: Report
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'.
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WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
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 ...
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War News In Reviews: Ukrainians' Russian Censorship Bypass Plan
Google on Thursday said it has stopped allowing reviews to be added to its online Maps service in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to prevent them from being used for war news.
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Player Accuses China's Top Politician Of Sexual Assault, Triggers Censorship
China's online censors Thursday scrubbed out a tennis star's reported allegations that a powerful politician sexually assaulted her, the first time that the #MeToo movement has reached the highest echelons of the ruling Communist Party.
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YouTube Wins User Copyright Fight in Top EU Court Ruling
YouTube has scored a win in its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe's top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove or block access to the content.
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China to Launch New Campaign to Regulate Social Media News Sites
Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s top Internet watchdog, plans to target commercial websites and social media accounts that illegally write and edit news items, and repost news articles from non-compliant sources.
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Facebook 'Complicit' in Vietnam Censorship: Amnesty International
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Facebook of "caving" to Vietnam's strict censorship regime, after the US tech giant confirmed it was blocking content deemed illegal by the country's communist government.
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Government Pushes for More Self-Censorship on Streaming, Issues Ultimatum: Report
We might be staring at more online censorship in India. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has reportedly issued an ultimatum to streaming services in India to form an independent adjudicatory body and adopt a new self-regulation code that might effectively work along the lines of how television content is moderated in India.
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Netflix, Amazon Said to Face Censorship Threat in India
India is deliberating potential censorship on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, a senior government source told Reuters.
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Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
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.
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Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
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.
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China Deleting Online Videos Showing Poverty: Report
Due to propaganda and censorship, many people in China are not aware of how prevalent poverty is in the country, The New York Times reported.
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Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
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...
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Google to Stop Limited Censorship for User Search in Canada From This Week
Google will stop blocking news articles from some Canadian users' search results on March 16, a company executive told a Canadian parliamentary panel investigating the tech firm on Friday. Last month, Google started testing limited news censorship as a potential response to a Canadian government bill that aims to compel online platforms to pay publ...
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"Virus Should Just Go And Die": Anger In China Over Online Censorship
New Year's Eve in China prompted an outpouring of reflection online, some of it critical, about the strict zero-COVID policy the country adhered to for almost three years.
-
China Releases New Rules On Censorship Of Online Comments, Likes: Report
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'.
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WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
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 ...
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War News In Reviews: Ukrainians' Russian Censorship Bypass Plan
Google on Thursday said it has stopped allowing reviews to be added to its online Maps service in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to prevent them from being used for war news.
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Player Accuses China's Top Politician Of Sexual Assault, Triggers Censorship
China's online censors Thursday scrubbed out a tennis star's reported allegations that a powerful politician sexually assaulted her, the first time that the #MeToo movement has reached the highest echelons of the ruling Communist Party.
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YouTube Wins User Copyright Fight in Top EU Court Ruling
YouTube has scored a win in its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe's top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove or block access to the content.
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China to Launch New Campaign to Regulate Social Media News Sites
Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s top Internet watchdog, plans to target commercial websites and social media accounts that illegally write and edit news items, and repost news articles from non-compliant sources.
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Facebook 'Complicit' in Vietnam Censorship: Amnesty International
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Facebook of "caving" to Vietnam's strict censorship regime, after the US tech giant confirmed it was blocking content deemed illegal by the country's communist government.
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Government Pushes for More Self-Censorship on Streaming, Issues Ultimatum: Report
We might be staring at more online censorship in India. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has reportedly issued an ultimatum to streaming services in India to form an independent adjudicatory body and adopt a new self-regulation code that might effectively work along the lines of how television content is moderated in India.
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Netflix, Amazon Said to Face Censorship Threat in India
India is deliberating potential censorship on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, a senior government source told Reuters.
