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South Park: The Stick of Truth – ‘Blame Ubisoft!’ Censorship Song – Video


South Park: The Stick of Truth - #39;Blame Ubisoft! #39; Censorship Song
This might not mean much to American viewers, but South Park: The Stick of Truth was victim to some silly censorship in Europe and Australia. We thought it o...

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Surveillance: a symptom of unchecked power

Revelations from former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made it clear to people around the world that their digital communications are being tracked and saved by the US spy agency.

That was one of the reasons why the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ were included on the 2014 list of Enemies of the Internet published on Wednesday (12.03.2014) by Reporters Without Borders.

It's been a tough year for freedom of speech on the Internet

"The mass surveillance methods employed, many of them exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, are all the more intolerable because they will be used and indeed are already being used by authoritarians countries such as Iran, China, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to justify their own violations of freedom of information," the report said. "How will so-called democratic countries be able to press for the protection of journalists if they adopt the very practices they are criticizing authoritarian regimes for?"

Inclusion on the press freedom group's list put the US and UK in the company of regimes in Tehran and Beijing, which have both come under heavy international criticism for their long-time censorship and surveillance of the Internet.

Iran: Fluctuation on the surface

Despite some minor loosening of restrictions under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, authorities in Iran have continued to develop a "national Internet" - the so-called "halal Internet" - that would cut off access to material deemed unacceptable, the report said.

"There have been fluctuations on the surface, including President Rouhani using Twitter, but the depth of the problem is intact," Arash Abadpour, a Toronto-based Iranian blogger, researcher and engineer, told DW. "The filtering regime is a reality, the National Internet is creeping in, and online activity is still criminalized."

A national 'halal' network could remove Iranians from the wider, public Internet

Filtering content, controlling Internet service providers, intercepting communications, staging cyber-attacks and imprisoning bloggers and Internet activists are common practice in Iran, Reporters Without Borders wrote.

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Censorship by CMHR alleged

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By: Bartley Kives

Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014 at 8:09 AM | Comments: 0

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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights says the facility has expectations of guest bloggers' content.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is weathering a censorship allegation after deleting a blog post it commissioned from a Tyrell Historical Medal-winning Canadian historian.

To coincide with International Women's Day, the Winnipeg-based museum asked Veronica Strong-Boag, a historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada, to pen a blog post in her area of expertise.

The post appeared on March 4, but was removed hours later after museum staff deemed a passage criticizing the federal Conservative government unacceptable.

The passage in question described the Conservatives as having an "anti-woman record." She said museum staff first asked her to back up that claim, but ultimately rejected a footnoted posting as a partisan statement.

In a letter to Strong-Boag, museum communications director Angela Cassie apologized for failing to explain what was expected from blog-post authors.

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Roundtable 004: The Ironic Failure of Game Censorship – Video


Roundtable 004: The Ironic Failure of Game Censorship
Caution: contains course language; viewer discretion is advised. Jay Couture of the Recoil Gaming Network re-joins Mike and Joe for a no-holds-barred, past-p...

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HYPNOCAST – #5: 3DS XL, Stream, Censorship – Video


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