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News Tuesday 19th September...

Internet News

Silencing Middle Eastern news
Saudi bans Al Jazzera from appearing on Snapchat app

News Sunday 17th September...

Internet News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Searching for our true selves
A study of Google searches suggests that we are not quite so politically correct on Google as we are in more public spaces

Games News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Ministering social development
Interview with a new chief censor: how to ban a video game in New Zealand

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Movie News

16th Sep

Obituary Harry Dean Stanton
Cult character actor and honorary melon farmer dies aged 91

Internet News

Update: Upload blocking
EU set to release censorship demands for internet companies to proactively block uploads of copyrighted material

Stage News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Easily offended hecklers are ruining comedy
Even comedians are now being shouted at for being offensive. By Andrew Doyle

Movie News

15th Sep

More IT
Film makers announcer that there will be a Director's Cut of IT to be released on home video

Advert News

Updated: Lamb of gods
Australian lamb marketing advert offends the easily offended

Internet News

Stop SESTA
Another US Congress attempt to censor the internet in the name of restricting sex trafficking

Movie News

14th Sep

Update: Culture of religious violence
Russian minister steps in to try and deter christians from threatening violence against cinemas showing the movie Matilda

Movie News

13th Sep

Sydney Film Festival recommends
Playground, depicting a murder along the lines of James Bulger, and Kuso, with something to offend everyone

Games News

Destiny 2 - PlayStation 4 Standard Edition

Flagged up
Video game Destiny 2 to delete pattern resembling a far right flag

Movie News

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: But not quite sure if anyone is listening
After 90 days in the role of Chief Censor, I have been pausing for a moment to reflect on what the role means, and where it might be headed. By David Shanks, chief censor at New Zealand's OFLC

Internet News

12th Sep

Update: At a time when political correctness overrides truth
Is it surprising that Facebook 'fact checking' doesn't seem to convince people much as to what is fake news?

Internet News

Update: Censor first, ask questions later... much later when it is all to late
YouTube censorship by demonetisation proves punishing to those unfairly censored, especially to small players

Movie News

Poster American Assassin 2017 Michael Cuesta

Update: CBFC assassins
Another Hollywood film suffers cuts at the hands of the new film censor

Games News

Updated: Holy ass kicking
Malaysian censors get offended by video game featuring fighting religious deities

TV News

11th Sep

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: TV censorship alive and kicking in Hong Kong
Now TV and Star World on censorship overdrive as, in one case, the word orgasm is given the silent treatment while in another a modest cleavage gets pixelated

Previous Media

Movie News

10th Sep

Updated: BUT...the idea proved a bit too much for Indians to bear
India's new film censor had hoped to pass IT uncut with the word 'motherfucker' being allowed for the first time

Movie News

Update: Welcome to the X Zone
India's film censors still quick to ban films, dashing recent hopes of the new film censor bringing with him a more grownup approach

Movie News

8th Sep

Updated: A bloody battle with the MPAA
Blood Feast remake gets an MPAA R rating on the 4th attempt

Movie News

Update: Lipstick Under my Burkha
Indian film ban helps make a film a 'super hit' in India and then helps get a theatrical release in the US

Internet News

Update: Perhaps Netflix and Amazon will have to age verify viewers of 18 rated films
Parliamentary group considers widening the UK's internet porn censorship to other age restricted products sold on the internet

Internet News

7th Sep

Offsite Article: Censorship is good for us
Somehow the Russian government has persuaded many of its citizens to avoid websites and social media platforms that are critical of the government, a new study has found.

Movie News

Offsite Article: Sony puts an end to its 'clean version' initiative for home video
Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon! The down and dirty history of clean movies. By Alissa Wilkinson

Movie News

6th Sep

I'd like to complain about the lack of complaints
A minimalist Annual Report from Ireland's film censorship office revealed that it received just 14 complaints about classifications

TV News

Cleansed words
BBC pulls out of Burmese TV as it is banned from using the word 'Rohingya'

Book News

Transcending rage
Australian mums 'outraged' by trans children's book being sold in Australian Aldi

Internet News

5th Sep

Update: Virtually banned
China jails seller of VPNs

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