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News Tuesday 19th September...

Middle East

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

West Europe

Updated: Offensive to Eurocrats
EU bans greek cartoonists from exhibition celebrating 60 years of the European Union

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Asia Pacific

17th Sep

Offsite Article

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

West Europe

16th Sep

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

South Asia

15th Sep

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

US News

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

East Europe

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

Aussie News

13th Sep

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

Asia Pacific

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

South Asia

12th Sep

Poster American Assassin 2017 Michael Cuesta

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

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South Asia

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

South Asia

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

US News

8th Sep

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

US News

7th Sep

Update: Stop YouTube from banning the Bible
US catholic church becomes an early victim of YouTube's censorship of anything politically incorrect

Africa News

Update: Nobody expects the Ugandan Inquisition
Uganda's crazed 'ethics' minister and witchfinder general sets up a porn control committee to go and seek out porn users and sellers

East Europe

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.

US 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

West Europe

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

Asia Pacific

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

US News

3rd Sep

Extract: Scarlett with embarrassment
Gone with the Wind dropped from traditional annual screening as America's past becomes a PC unmentionable

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World Censors Index	Australia:	Film Classification Board
	China:	SARFT State Adminstration of Radio, Film and Television
	Germany:	Video & Game Censorship
	Hong Kong:	Home of Category III
	India:	CBFC Central Board of Film Certification
	Ireland:	IFCO Irish Film Classification Office
	Italy:	Film Censorship Committee
	Japan:	Eirin Eiga Rinri Iinkai (Film Classification and Rating Committee)
	Malta:	Board of Film and Stage Classification
	New Zealand:	OFLC Office of Film and Literature Classification
	Pakistan:	CBFC Central Board of Film Certification
	Singapore:	MDA Media Development Authority
	South Africa:	FPB Film and Publications Board
	Thailand:	Ministry of Censorial Culture
	UAE:	NMC National Media Council
	USA:	ESRB Entertainment Software Ratings Board
	USA:	MPAA The Motion Picture Association of America

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