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11 votes
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Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
Police bodycam shows sheriff hunting for 'obscene' books at library
54 votes -
The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
19 votes -
A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash
27 votes -
Tools for thinking about censorship
9 votes -
The most dangerous Canadian internet bill you’ve never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
34 votes -
How Monty Python's Life of Brian moved past culture wars and censorship to become a beloved hit
31 votes -
Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
22 votes -
So you’ve been no-platformed? (2016)
20 votes -
Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania children's author writes a book titled 'Banned Book', discusses censorship
12 votes -
Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters
36 votes -
‘The love for music is still there’: saving the sounds of Afghanistan one cassette at a time
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Opinion: The Kids Online Safety Act would harm LGBTQ+ youth, restrict access to information and community
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, kiwifarms, death, harassment: a critique
58 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
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More than thirty years after its publication, picture book Daddy's Roommate has once again found itself the target of censorship
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The King of Jordan approved a cybercrime bill that will crack down on online speech deemed harmful to national unity
18 votes -
The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
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Ann Patchett talks about her new book, running a bookshop, and resisting censorship
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Pentagon to filmmakers: We won’t help you if you kowtow to China
46 votes -
Should we be going back and editing games for content that doesn't fit with a modern viewpoint?
Thinking about the recent incident where the devs for Skullgirls (current devs, not original devs) went and changed a bunch of artwork and other content for the fighting game, which released in...
Thinking about the recent incident where the devs for Skullgirls (current devs, not original devs) went and changed a bunch of artwork and other content for the fighting game, which released in 2012 after being Kickstarted. Aside from removing the sexualized imagery of an underage character, probably a good call, what about the other things they've decided are in 'poor taste' in 2023?
Should we be going back and editing games, or even movies, tv shows, and books to reflect more modern sensibilities? Is a game like Skullgirls even worth preserving its original content?
My opinion is no, unless it's something that is now illegal, I don't really enjoy the precedent that's been set lately where we go back and correct past mistakes in media. However, I also see the argument about removing media that may encourage racist or sexist thinking or put down minorities, but is it useful to see the media as it was and see how far we've come? Is that useful enough? Should only the original creators make that decision?
Just thought this was interesting. Tag as desired.
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Inside a secret lesbian sex toy smuggling ring
30 votes -
The AI moment of truth for Chinese censorship
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Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram
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Secret room inside popular game contains independent journalism forbidden in Russia
10 votes -
The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
8 votes -
Finnish newspaper hides Ukraine news reports for Russians – secret room in first-person shooter game Counter-Strike to bypass Russian censorship
7 votes -
An anonymous critic played cat and mouse with Beijing for twelve years. Then he got caught.
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Banned in the USA: The growing movement to censor books in schools
14 votes -
BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Narendra Modi documentary fallout
9 votes -
Twitter restricted in Türkiye in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes -
Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'
5 votes -
US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars
8 votes -
India police detain students gathered to watch BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
8 votes -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
8 votes -
Hacking a weird TV censoring device
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World Cup organisers have apologised to a Danish television station whose live broadcast was interrupted by Qatari officials who threatened to break their camera equipment
6 votes -
Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
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How one man on a bridge marred Xi Jinping's big moment
18 votes -
Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all inherent attributes of information monopoly
10 votes -
China says Hollywood needs to show respect as films blocked
10 votes -
The case for nudity
8 votes -
Soap or Scum? Inside the fight over history's most controversial sitcom
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When hundreds of vampire-hunting children invaded a Scottish cemetery — and helped spur a comic book ban
5 votes -
How the SOPA blackout happened
5 votes -
XXX-Files: Who torched the Pornhub palace?
5 votes -
Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers' freedom of expression and prevent the risks of self-censorship
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China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out.
19 votes