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WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My Blog
Read more: WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My BlogIn case the hosting provider and (or) the Internet web-site owner fail to take these measures, the network address enabling to identify Internet web-sites containing the information prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation will be decided to be entered into the Register and access will be limited.The information about entering the domain names, Internet…
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39 Satirical Images of Indian PM Scrubbed From Buzzfeed
Read more: 39 Satirical Images of Indian PM Scrubbed From BuzzfeedTwo BuzzFeed listicles poking fun at Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have been scrubbed following a 2018 legal threat. Update, October 16, 2020: In a comment, BuzzFeed said that the most recent removals were not the result of further legal threats from Mumbai police, but the result of updates to BuzzFeed’s old content. Here is…
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Russian Law Being Used to Prevent the Disclosure of Banned Websites
Read more: Russian Law Being Used to Prevent the Disclosure of Banned WebsitesRussia’s media regulator is preventing Google from disclosing thousands of URLs that were banned under so-called “VPN law” For the past week or so, Google has been embroiled in a censorship war over Russia’s attempts to ban instant messaging service Telegram. Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor banned Telegram after the company refused to hand over encryption…
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Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISIS
Read more: Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISISTurkey’s authoritarian president demands U.S. social media giants censor critical posts, tweets, and satirical cartoons linking him to Islamic terrorism. In 2016 and 2017, I blogged about takedown demands sent by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting satirical cartoons and “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler. Turkey’s censorial circus continues with yet another round…
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Mumbai Cyber Police Shut Down Gay Modi Photoshop
Read more: Mumbai Cyber Police Shut Down Gay Modi PhotoshopBuzzFeed deletes homoerotic photoshop of Indian prime minister following legal threats from Mumbai police, highlighting gay rights issues, censorship in India The doctored image, which depicts Indian PM Narendra Modi embracing his right-hand man Rajnath Singh on an idyllic beach, is one of 18 related images included in a January 4, 2016 BuzzFeed listicle by…
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Russian Media Regulator Targets Award-Winning Trump Critic
Read more: Russian Media Regulator Targets Award-Winning Trump CriticRussia’s media regulator is trying to censor an award-winning news website that reported on the Robert Mueller investigation Roskomnadzor, a Moscow state-owned media regulator, has sent Google a court order demanding that it delist an award-winning opposition news website that reported about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. Grani, a popular Russian website that according to Reporters…
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First Lady of Lumen
Read more: First Lady of LumenFirst Lady of Turkey Emine Erdoğan demands takedown of negative news reports That’s according to the Lumen Database, a website that collects and analyses online takedown requests. In April, the site uploaded a Turkish court order complaint Erdoğan sent to Google and WordPress demanding the removal of news reports described as “damaging” to the “personality…
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Techdirt Skewers Turkey
Read more: Techdirt Skewers TurkeyTechdirt publishes article based on my blog post re: Erdoğan’s takedown demand of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler source Via “Turkish President Demands Google Delist a Bunch of Websites Comparing Him to Hitler” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, May 24, 2017: from the ‘Hitler-was-an-amateur-authoritarian,’-the-president-complained dept The world’s most thin-skinned “leader” is at it again. Perpetually-insulted…
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WordPress Yields to Erdoğan
Read more: WordPress Yields to ErdoğanWordPress updates its takedown policy to reflect that it now complies with Turkish censorship demands – four months after I blogged the story Last year, I reported about a Turkish political blog that was geo-blocked by WordPress following a takedown request from tyrannical Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In a series of tweets, the Turkish journalist and noted…
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Censorship and Science
Read more: Censorship and ScienceProminent co-signer of failed CSPI retraction demand Dr. David L. Katz rails against “censorship of science” – but author/journalist Nina Teicholz says “specious retraction efforts are also a form of censorship” Per the above tweet, author/columnist Dr. David L. Katz, founding director of the CDC-funded Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, alluded to reports that newly elected US President Trump had ordered a…
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