Censorship Stories

Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 34
India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters 32
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing 110
Substack Faces User Revolt Over Anti-Censorship Stance 271
Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media? 63
EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy 16
Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet' 66
Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books 394
Finnish Newspaper Uses Secret Room In Counter-Strike To Bypass Russian Censorship 59
How China Censored Research About Covid-19 229
India Says New IT Fact-Checking Unit Will Not Censor Journalism 27
The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship 16
Roald Dahl eBooks Reportedly Censored Remotely 244
Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech 154
What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets? 377
Protests Erupting Across China 172
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews' 22
China Upgrades Great Firewall To Defeat Censor-Beating TLS Tools 20
VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban 12
Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights 72
Microsoft Won't Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid 'Censorship' Cries 164
Do America's Free-Speech Protections Protect Code - and Prevent Cryptocurrency Regulation? 65
There's No Tiananmen Square In the New Chinese Image-Making AI 73
A Million-Word Novel Got Censored Before It Was Even Shared 237
Tor Browser Now Bypasses Internet Censorship Automatically 18
China Bans 31 Live-Streaming Behaviors 60
Instagram Moderators Say Iran Offered Them Bribes to Remove Accounts 18
Microsoft's Bing Reportedly Censoring Politically Sensitive Chinese Names, Researchers Say 27
Millions of Russians are 'Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain' Using VPNs 96
Ironic Effect of Efforts to Ban Books: Teenagers Form New Book Clubs to Read Them 260
A Censorship-Resistant Inflation Index Is Being Built On Chainlink 89
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021 142
The Sad State of Russia's Social Media Knock-offs 75
How Putin's Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech 91
Belarus Arrests Prominent Wikipedia Editor, Sentences Him to 15 Days of Arrest 73
'The Kremlin is Lying', Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers 210
Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency 13
DuckDuckGo To Down-Rank Sites Associated With Russian Disinformation 162
Is a New Iron Curtain Descending Across Russia's internet? 137
Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash 86
Spotify Support Buckles Under Complaints From Angry Neil Young Fans 599
Germany's Security Watchdog Finds No Evidence of Censorship In Xiaomi Phones 28
Are Social Media Companies Censoring Us? Is It Ever Justified? 398
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
Who Censored Marie Antoinette's Letters? X-Rays Reveal a Surprise 26
Apple Censors Engraving Service, Report Claims 49
1.4 Million Cubans Bypass Censorship Using US Government-Funded Software Psiphon 50
As Cubans Protest, Government Cracks Down On Internet Access and Messaging Apps 239
China's Great Firewall is Blocking Around 311K Domains, 41K by Accident 33
YouTube Criticized For Removing Videos Documenting China's Persecution of Uighur Muslims 130
Will America's Top Court Protect Free Speech Online for Teenagers? 88
Notepad++ Drops Bing After 'Tank Man' Censorship Fiasco 138
Facebook and Instagram Confront Historically Bad 'Reputational Crisis' in the Middle East 81
Twitter and Facebook Admit They Wrongly Blocked Millions of Posts About Gaza Strip Airstrikes 156
Russia Makes Good On Its Threat To Fine Google Over 'Illegal' Internet Content 110
Facebook Mistakenly Deletes Page for the Town of Bitche, France 76
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored By YouTube 133
China Launches Hotline To Report Online Comments That 'Distort' History or 'Deny' Its Cultural Excellence 124
Google Asked to Hide TorrentFreak Article Reporting that 'The Mandalorian' Was Widely Pirated 72
Putin's Plan For Controlling the Internet In Russia 63
How Facebook Silenced an Enemy of Turkey To Prevent a Hit To the Company's Business 162
EFF, Cory Doctorow Warn About the Dangers of De-Platforming and Censorship 231
Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs 86
Are Tech Companies Censoring Their Users For Access to China's Market? 85
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies 239
Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom 'Censorship' 113
Facebook Touts Free Speech. In Vietnam, It's Aiding in Censorship 41
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
Apple Removes Two RSS Feed Readers From China App Store To Please China's Censors 15
In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information 28
Text Editor Notepad++ Banned In China After 'Stand With Hong Kong' Update 87
Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election 120
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI 103
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
Apple Removes Two Podcast Apps From China Store After Censorship Demands 22
Musk Says 'Time To Break Up Amazon,' Escalating Feud With Bezos 129
What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230? 519
YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties 51
Anti-Porn Filters Stop Dominic Cummings Trending On Twitter 162
Chinese Internet Users Who Uploaded Coronavirus Memories To GitHub Have Been Arrested 216
Facebook Agreed To Censor Posts After Vietnam Slowed Traffic 59
Mild Disney+ Censorship 'Hides a Much Bigger Problem' 194
Group Builds Massive New Library of Censored Articles Inside Minecraft 34
ProtonMail Could Reroute Connections Through Google To Circumvent Censorship 9
Disney Blocks John Oliver's New Episode Critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 166
YouTube Censors Senate Floor Speech With Whistleblower's Name 382
China's Battle With the Wuhan Coronavirus is Shackled by a Toxic Relationship With Information 84
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support 60
DC Comics Deletes 'Batman' Image That China Complained Was Supporting Hong Kong Protesters 132
Iran Shuts Down Country's Internet In the Wake of Fuel Protests 46
Netflix Expands Into a World Full of Censors 44
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
Microsoft Wants To Use AI To Bleep Out Bad Words In Xbox Live Party Chat 58
China's Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall 68
Fake News Posters In Singapore Will Face Fines, Prison Sentences Under New Law 55
Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube? 68
How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing 23
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685% 57
China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says 27
Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' In China 41
How America's Tech Giants Are Helping Build China's Surveillance State 147
In 'Bold Experiment', Facebook Creates Independent 'Oversight Board'' For Content Decisions 112
YouTube's Crackdown on Violent Extremism Mistakenly Whacks Channels Fighting Violent Extremism 313
White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites 402
Google's Censored Search Would Help China 'Be More Open', Said Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt 91
Founder of Voat, the 'Censorship-Free' Reddit, Begs Users To Stop Making Death Threats 266
Employees Call On Microsoft To Protect GitHub From China Censors 90
Russia Adopts Bill That Would Expand Government Control Over the Internet 96
China's 'Game of Thrones' Fans Try Torrents, VPNs For Uncensored Episodes 47
Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China 117
Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites 87
Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills 420
Tim Berners-Lee Talks About India's Recent Push To Data Localization, Proposed Compromise of End-to-End Encryption, and Frequent Internet Shutdowns 41
Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments 196
Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail 98
Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet 308
Vox Lawyers Briefly Censored YouTubers Who Mocked the Verge's Bad PC Build Video 161
Reddit, Banned In China, Is Reportedly Set To Land $150 Million Investment From a Chinese Censorship Powerhouse 103
New Site Exposes How Apple Censors Apps in China 33
Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China 65
Russia Tries To Force Facebook, Twitter To Relocate Servers To Russia 83
Venezuela's Government Blocks Access To Wikipedia 208
Is US Surveillance Technology Propping Up Authoritarian Regimes? 83
Iran Extends Social Media Crackdown With Move To Bar Instagram 37
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report 82
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th 317
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project 54
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals 81
Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes 54
Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide 'Broad Benefits' 93
Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials 116
Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development 120
Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship 65
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China 100
Google Built a Prototype of a Censored Search Engine For China That Links Users' Searches To Their Personal Phone Numbers: The Intercept 162
Tencent Shuts Poker Platform Amid Widening Gaming Crackdown 14
Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address 508
The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved 382
Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them 67
After Employee Revolt, Google Says It's 'Not Close' To Launching Search In China 135
Google Employees Protest Secret Work On Censored Search Engine For China 169
Reddit Blocked In China 68
Google Boots Open Source Anti-Censorship Tool From Chrome Store 95
Google Using Chinese Site It Owns To Develop Search Term Blacklist For Censored Search Engine, Says Report 63
Call Me, Comrade: The Surprise Rise of North Korean Smartphones 58
Google Plans To Launch Censored Search Engine In China, Leaked Documents Reveal 132
Should Bots Be Required To Tell You That They're Not Human? 92
Facebook Forced To Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues, Says Report 118
Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting 44
Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn 126
US Gaming Giant Steam Has Managed To Skirt China's Strict Regulations on Content 44
UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship 124
The World's Largest Phone Network China Mobile Censors Content -- Even in the United States 61
Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network 186
China Blocks HBO After John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Mockery of Xi Jinping 163
China Will Partly Lift Internet Censorship For One of Its Provinces To Promote Tourism 44
Tanzania Orders All Unregistered Bloggers To Take Down Their Sites 52
Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool 99
Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting 27
North Korea Linked To Global Hacking Operation Against Critical Infrastructure, Telecoms 51
Google Is Shuttering Domain Fronting, Creating a Big Problem For Anti-Censorship Tools 59
Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey 35
Sri Lanka Blocks Facebook, Instagram To Prevent Spread of Hate Speech 123
Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn 503
YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels 277
China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power 196
China Censors Social Media Responses To Proposal To Abolish Presidential Terms 163
Reddit Bans 'Deepfakes' AI Porn Communities 110
Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked 487
A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail 180
How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors 48
France's President Macron Wants To Block Websites During Elections To Fight 'Fake News' 299
US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests 135
Toutiao, One of China's Most Popular News Apps, is Discovering the Risks Involved in Giving People Exactly What They Want Online 29
Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law 545
Congo Shuts Down Internet Services 'Indefinitely' 88
Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests 156
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again 395
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship 38
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community 500
Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China 37
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause 45
China Cyber Watchdog Rejects Censorship Critics, Says Internet Must Be 'Orderly' 78
Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram 18
Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect 185
The New York Times Launches Tor Onion Service To Overcome Censorship, Ensure Privacy 69
YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident 154
Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? 503
Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians 136
China Blocks WhatsApp 104
'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books) 166
Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship 363
EU Set To Demand Internet Firms Act Faster To Remove Illegal Content 60
Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field 216
Is Slashdot Blocked In Parts Of India? 172
China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities 251
50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance 198
China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown 55
Indian ISPs Appear To Be Blocking Access To Internet Archive 24
Syrian Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Believed Executed 151
Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas 80
China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet 151
Joining Apple, Amazon's China Cloud Service Bows To Censors 51
Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store 108
China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission 90
Free Speech vs Billionaires: Netflix Streams A New Documentary About The Gawker Verdict 199
China Tells Carriers To Block Access to Personal VPNs By February 173
Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument 69
Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill 93
China To Implement Cyber Security Law From Thursday 59
Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship 170
Egypt Blocks 21 Websites For 'Terrorism' And 'Fake News' 55
China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player 93
FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult 305
Wikipedia Is Being Blocked In Turkey 94
'We Won't Block Pirate Bay,' Swedish Telecoms Giant Says 27
CloudFlare Puts Pirate Sites on New IP Addresses, Avoids Cogent Blockade 88
Tor's Ooniprobe, Now Available On Android and iOS, Helps People Track Internet Censorship 27
Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet? 87
Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access 70
Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply 110
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network 74
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey 254
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook 75
WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump 445
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 121
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor 99
China Internet Authority Formalizes Regulations For Live-Streaming Industry 17

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