For a small fee, anyone can post sensitive documents publicly on a blockchain.
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Chinese users have started posting sensitive materials, like documents of sexual assault, on the blockchain. But the government has taken its own steps to crack down on this practice.
Tanzania’s journalists have been kept in check for a long time.
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There’s been an evolution in Tanzanian laws used against the press
When a website blocks access, it sometimes delivers a notice saying so.
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Private companies – many based in the US – are blocking access to their websites from particular countries around the world. It’s contributing to a splintering of the global internet.
The Railway Depot furnace at Kaserne, Johannesburg in 1971. Banned and confiscated books and magazines were burnt weekly.
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South Africa has a history of burning books. The ashes of burnt books tell of the barbarism to which a society can descend.
Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump.
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Americans are overwhelmingly committed to a free press and hostile to government restrictions, a new poll finds. But the country is divided on the meaning of President Trump’s attacks on the press.
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The writings of John WIlmot, Earl of Rochester, were certainly obscene. But his poetry also gave us a new way of looking at the human condition.
Babi Yar: the World War II atrocity is one of the themes of The White Hotel.
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Everyone has a favourite novel that hasn’t made it to the screen. Here’s why.
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The digital revolution changed the debate about censorship.
What causes a media business to bar the door?
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While they may talk about ‘free speech,’ businesses make decisions about their content based on a very different set of principles.
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Google’s secret plan to comply with Chinese censorship laws betrays the values that helped create the tech giant.
From poster of The Marvellous World of Sex.
Soon after the death of Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas.
A new act is trying to lock down cyber crime in Kenya.
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Kenya’s new Computer and Cyber Crime Act must not be abused by the criminal justice system.
The president uses his Twitter feed to make official announcements.
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A Twitter account used for official purposes is a public forum protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
This is America.
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The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
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In new guidance, students and universities could be banned from censoring controversial speakers on campuses following the first ministerial intervention on free speech in 30 years.
A scene from ‘Inxeba’.
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The banned film Inxeba certainly deserves more than to languish in the mire of South African scandal.
Museum of Communist Treachery.
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The Indonesian military recently announced that foreign researchers must request a permit to visit the museums it runs.
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New, extreme levels of censorship in Turkey could lead to waves of digital activism by tech-savvy generations.
The offending work: John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs (1896).
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The decision to remove a 19th-century painting because of its portrayal of naked women was a heavy handed way of making a valid point.
Standing up against Duterte’s media crackdown.
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Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism has progressed from death squads and martial law to cracking down on press freedom.