Slashdot Items Tagged "censorship"

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Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:20AM Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:44PM India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters
Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:28PM Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China
Friday January 12, 2024 @04:29PM Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:56PM Substack Faces User Revolt Over Anti-Censorship Stance
Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:29AM Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media?
Friday September 15, 2023 @10:25PM EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy
Friday August 18, 2023 @04:56PM Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet'
Monday August 14, 2023 @05:57PM Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books
Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:06PM Finnish Newspaper Uses Secret Room In Counter-Strike To Bypass Russian Censorship
Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:14PM How China Censored Research About Covid-19
Friday April 14, 2023 @05:38PM India Says New IT Fact-Checking Unit Will Not Censor Journalism
Friday April 07, 2023 @04:38PM The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship
Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:21AM Roald Dahl eBooks Reportedly Censored Remotely
Friday February 24, 2023 @04:04PM Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech
Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:46PM What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets?
Sunday November 27, 2022 @04:09PM Protests Erupting Across China
Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:39PM Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire'
Friday October 07, 2022 @10:33PM VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews'
Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:02PM China Upgrades Great Firewall To Defeat Censor-Beating TLS Tools
Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:13AM VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban
Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:44AM Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights
Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:34PM Microsoft Won't Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid 'Censorship' Cries
Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:46PM Do America's Free-Speech Protections Protect Code - and Prevent Cryptocurrency Regulation?
Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:36PM There's No Tiananmen Square In the New Chinese Image-Making AI
Monday July 18, 2022 @01:49PM A Million-Word Novel Got Censored Before It Was Even Shared
Friday July 15, 2022 @04:36PM Tor Browser Now Bypasses Internet Censorship Automatically
Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:27PM China Bans 31 Live-Streaming Behaviors
Sunday May 29, 2022 @06:03PM Instagram Moderators Say Iran Offered Them Bribes to Remove Accounts
Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:52PM Microsoft's Bing Reportedly Censoring Politically Sensitive Chinese Names, Researchers Say
Friday May 06, 2022 @10:02PM Millions of Russians are 'Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain' Using VPNs
Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:14PM Ironic Effect of Efforts to Ban Books: Teenagers Form New Book Clubs to Read Them
Friday April 08, 2022 @04:22PM A Censorship-Resistant Inflation Index Is Being Built On Chainlink
Monday April 04, 2022 @06:29PM Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021
Sunday April 03, 2022 @09:27PM The Sad State of Russia's Social Media Knock-offs
Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:41PM Belarus Arrests Prominent Wikipedia Editor, Sentences Him to 15 Days of Arrest
Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:03PM How Putin's Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech
Saturday March 12, 2022 @06:00PM 'The Kremlin is Lying', Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers
Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:15PM Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency
Thursday March 10, 2022 @04:45PM DuckDuckGo To Down-Rank Sites Associated With Russian Disinformation
Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:46PM Is a New Iron Curtain Descending Across Russia's internet?
Monday February 07, 2022 @12:52AM Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash
Friday January 28, 2022 @07:30PM Spotify Support Buckles Under Complaints From Angry Neil Young Fans
Friday January 14, 2022 @06:51PM Germany's Security Watchdog Finds No Evidence of Censorship In Xiaomi Phones
Monday January 10, 2022 @01:25AM Are Social Media Companies Censoring Us? Is It Ever Justified?
Monday October 25, 2021 @04:40PM 'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy'
Friday October 01, 2021 @07:05PM Who Censored Marie Antoinette's Letters? X-Rays Reveal a Surprise
Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:39PM Apple Censors Engraving Service, Report Claims
Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:09PM 1.4 Million Cubans Bypass Censorship Using US Government-Funded Software Psiphon
Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:50PM As Cubans Protest, Government Cracks Down On Internet Access and Messaging Apps
Monday July 12, 2021 @12:02PM China's Great Firewall is Blocking Around 311K Domains, 41K by Accident
Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:07PM YouTube Criticized For Removing Videos Documenting China's Persecution of Uighur Muslims
Friday June 25, 2021 @07:46PM Will America's Top Court Protect Free Speech Online for Teenagers?
Monday June 07, 2021 @04:40PM Notepad++ Drops Bing After 'Tank Man' Censorship Fiasco
Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:28PM Facebook and Instagram Confront Historically Bad 'Reputational Crisis' in the Middle East
Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:14PM Twitter and Facebook Admit They Wrongly Blocked Millions of Posts About Gaza Strip Airstrikes
Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:15PM Russia Makes Good On Its Threat To Fine Google Over 'Illegal' Internet Content
Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:36PM Facebook Mistakenly Deletes Page for the Town of Bitche, France
Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:22PM YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored By YouTube
Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:18PM China Launches Hotline To Report Online Comments That 'Distort' History or 'Deny' Its Cultural Excellence
Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:12PM Google Asked to Hide TorrentFreak Article Reporting that 'The Mandalorian' Was Widely Pirated
Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:45PM Putin's Plan For Controlling the Internet In Russia
Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:16PM How Facebook Silenced an Enemy of Turkey To Prevent a Hit To the Company's Business
Saturday January 16, 2021 @01:18PM EFF, Cory Doctorow Warn About the Dangers of De-Platforming and Censorship
Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:02AM Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs
Sunday December 27, 2020 @04:43PM Are Tech Companies Censoring Their Users For Access to China's Market?
Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:17PM 'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies
Monday October 26, 2020 @11:58AM Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom 'Censorship'
Friday October 23, 2020 @01:16PM Facebook Touts Free Speech. In Vietnam, It's Aiding in Censorship
Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:28PM FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law
Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:52PM Apple Removes Two RSS Feed Readers From China App Store To Please China's Censors
Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:35PM In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information
Monday August 17, 2020 @04:28PM Text Editor Notepad++ Banned In China After 'Stand With Hong Kong' Update
Monday August 10, 2020 @08:18PM Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election
Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:00PM China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:48AM Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:18AM US Threatens To Restrict WeChat Following TikTok Backlash
Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:22PM Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund
Monday June 29, 2020 @04:35PM Apple Mass Deleting Forum Posts About Defective MacBook Pro Part?
Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:16AM Man Tried To Share His Regrets About Transgender Life. YouTube Censored It
Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:42AM Apple Removes Two Podcast Apps From China Store After Censorship Demands
Friday June 12, 2020 @07:18PM Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:40PM Musk Says 'Time To Break Up Amazon,' Escalating Feud With Bezos
Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:25AM What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
Friday May 29, 2020 @04:32AM YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @05:10PM Anti-Porn Filters Stop Dominic Cummings Trending On Twitter
Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:51PM Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials
Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:35PM France gives online firms one hour to pull 'terrorist' content
Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:38PM Chinese Internet Users Who Uploaded Coronavirus Memories To GitHub Have Been Arrested
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:49PM Facebook Agreed To Censor Posts After Vietnam Slowed Traffic
Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:45PM Mild Disney+ Censorship 'Hides a Much Bigger Problem'
Friday March 13, 2020 @08:09PM Group Builds Massive New Library of Censored Articles Inside Minecraft
Friday March 13, 2020 @02:48PM ProtonMail Could Reroute Connections Through Google To Circumvent Censorship
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @01:51PM Disney Blocks John Oliver's New Episode Critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:26AM Twitter Locks WikiLeaks Official Account With 5.4 Million Followers, Days Before Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing
Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:25PM YouTube Censors Senate Floor Speech With Whistleblower's Name
Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:23PM Twitter Will Ban Deepfakes and Other Manipulated Media That Could Cause 'Serious Harm'
Friday January 24, 2020 @03:31PM China's Battle With the Wuhan Coronavirus is Shackled by a Toxic Relationship With Information
Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:25PM TikTok Reported Highest Takedown Requests From India and US, Zero From China
Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:41PM Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal?
Tuesday December 10, 2019 @11:59AM Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support
Saturday November 30, 2019 @05:16PM DC Comics Deletes 'Batman' Image That China Complained Was Supporting Hong Kong Protesters
Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:39PM Iran Shuts Down Country's Internet In the Wake of Fuel Protests
Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:47PM Netflix Expands Into a World Full of Censors
Sunday October 20, 2019 @12:54AM 'South Park' Nears $500-Million Deal for US Streaming Rights
Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:21PM Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules
Monday October 14, 2019 @05:25PM Microsoft Wants To Use AI To Bleep Out Bad Words In Xbox Live Party Chat
Friday October 11, 2019 @10:11AM China's Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall
Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:46PM Activision Blizzard Suspends 'Hearthstone' Pro Player for Supporting Hong Kong Protests
Monday October 07, 2019 @06:15PM Apple Censors Taiwanese Flag Emoji in Hong Kong
Saturday October 05, 2019 @01:32PM Fake News Posters In Singapore Will Face Fines, Prison Sentences Under New Law
Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:04PM Kamala Harris Asks Twitter To Suspend Donald Trump For 'Civil War' and Whistleblower Tweets
Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:51AM Fake News Posters In Singapore Will Face Fines, Prison Sentences Under New Law
Monday September 30, 2019 @07:11PM Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube?
Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:43PM Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Like BitChute Someday Replace YouTube?
Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:05AM How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing
Friday September 06, 2019 @05:32PM Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685%
Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:10PM China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says
Friday August 09, 2019 @05:24PM White House Proposal Would Have FCC, FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship
Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:26PM Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' In China
Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:32PM How America's Tech Giants Are Helping Build China's Surveillance State
Saturday July 06, 2019 @09:28PM In 'Bold Experiment', Facebook Creates Independent 'Oversight Board'' For Content Decisions
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:21PM Facebook Downgrades Posts That Promote Miracle Cures
Saturday June 08, 2019 @01:08AM YouTube's Crackdown on Violent Extremism Mistakenly Whacks Channels Fighting Violent Extremism
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:27PM White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites
Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:55PM Google's Censored Search Would Help China 'Be More Open', Said Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt
Monday May 06, 2019 @10:42AM Anti-Abortion Group Denied Access To Times Square's Billboards and Jumbotrons
Friday April 26, 2019 @05:46PM Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots
Friday April 26, 2019 @02:55PM Founder of Voat, the 'Censorship-Free' Reddit, Begs Users To Stop Making Death Threats
Monday April 22, 2019 @06:40PM Employees Call On Microsoft To Protect GitHub From China Censors
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:55PM Russia Adopts Bill That Would Expand Government Control Over the Internet
Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:06PM China's 'Game of Thrones' Fans Try Torrents, VPNs For Uncensored Episodes
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:55AM Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China
Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:02AM Australia Passes Law To Punish Social Media Companies For Violent Posts
Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:51PM Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites
Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:01AM Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills
Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:51PM Tim Berners-Lee Talks About India's Recent Push To Data Localization, Proposed Compromise of End-to-End Encryption, and Frequent Internet Shutdowns
Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:43AM Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments
Monday March 11, 2019 @11:30PM Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail
Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:53PM Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:54PM Vox Lawyers Briefly Censored YouTubers Who Mocked the Verge's Bad PC Build Video
Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:11PM Reddit, Banned In China, Is Reportedly Set To Land $150 Million Investment From a Chinese Censorship Powerhouse
Friday February 01, 2019 @12:44PM New Site Exposes How Apple Censors Apps in China
Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:10PM Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China
Monday January 21, 2019 @06:56PM Russia Tries To Force Facebook, Twitter To Relocate Servers To Russia
Saturday January 19, 2019 @06:15PM Venezuela's Government Blocks Access To Wikipedia
Saturday January 19, 2019 @02:48PM Is US Surveillance Technology Propping Up Authoritarian Regimes?
Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:26AM UK to require proof of age for all porn sites from April
Wednesday January 02, 2019 @05:29PM Iran Extends Social Media Crackdown With Move To Bar Instagram
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:08PM Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:10AM Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today
Monday December 17, 2018 @02:00PM Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report
Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:28AM Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites
Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:05AM China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG
Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:02AM Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability
Monday December 03, 2018 @04:46PM Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th
Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:47PM Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:39AM Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project
Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:15AM Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues
Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:14AM 'The Internet Needs More Friction'
Friday November 16, 2018 @09:54PM 86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals
Monday November 12, 2018 @08:21PM Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes
Friday October 12, 2018 @04:04PM Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide 'Broad Benefits'
Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:29PM Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials
Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:59AM Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:42PM Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship
Monday September 24, 2018 @10:08PM Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China
Friday September 14, 2018 @04:39PM Google Built a Prototype of a Censored Search Engine For China That Links Users' Searches To Their Personal Phone Numbers: The Intercept
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:49PM Facebook's 'Rosetta' System Helps the Company Understand Text Within Image, Which is Crucial In Handling Memes, Flagging Abusing Content
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:59PM Tencent Shuts Poker Platform Amid Widening Gaming Crackdown
Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:03PM Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address
Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:44PM The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved
Friday August 24, 2018 @05:44AM The Consequences of Indecency
Saturday August 18, 2018 @09:21PM Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them
Friday August 17, 2018 @09:08PM After Employee Revolt, Google Says It's 'Not Close' To Launching Search In China
Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:31PM Google Employees Protest Secret Work On Censored Search Engine For China
Monday August 13, 2018 @05:19AM Reddit Blocked In China
Friday August 10, 2018 @04:45PM Google Boots Open Source Anti-Censorship Tool From Chrome Store
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:45PM Google Using Chinese Site It Owns To Develop Search Term Blacklist For Censored Search Engine, Says Report
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:26AM Call Me, Comrade: The Surprise Rise of North Korean Smartphones
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:33AM Google Plans To Launch Censored Search Engine In China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Friday July 27, 2018 @10:58PM Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results
Friday July 27, 2018 @05:21PM Should Bots Be Required To Tell You That They're Not Human?
Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:02PM Facebook Forced To Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues, Says Report
Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:55AM Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting
Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:59AM Leaked Documents Show Facebook's 'Threshold' For Deleting Pages, Groups
Friday July 13, 2018 @05:57PM Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn
Saturday July 07, 2018 @08:37PM US Gaming Giant Steam Has Managed To Skirt China's Strict Regulations on Content
Friday July 06, 2018 @04:53PM UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship
Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:02PM The World's Largest Phone Network China Mobile Censors Content -- Even in the United States
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:21PM Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network
Monday June 25, 2018 @04:01PM China Blocks HBO After John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Mockery of Xi Jinping
Friday June 22, 2018 @03:25PM China Will Partly Lift Internet Censorship For One of Its Provinces To Promote Tourism
Monday June 11, 2018 @04:33PM Tanzania Orders All Unregistered Bloggers To Take Down Their Sites
Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:35PM Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool
Monday April 30, 2018 @06:43PM Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:47PM North Korea Linked To Global Hacking Operation Against Critical Infrastructure, Telecoms
Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:38AM NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:38PM Google Is Shuttering Domain Fronting, Creating a Big Problem For Anti-Censorship Tools
Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:41PM Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon'