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.
The famous ‘kiss’ scene from Sleeping Beauty.
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Fairytales are increasingly being targeted for giving girls inappropriate messages. But these stories have always evolved with the times, and talk of banning them is misguided.
Australia was one of the first offshore markets targeted by WeChat Pay.
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China’s most popular social media app WeChat is on the rise in Australia thanks to demand from Chinese students and tourists. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to use it.
The apparently growing practIce of governments and government officials blocking critics on social media has serious implications for freedom of expression.
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Citizens should be free to criticize government authorities on social media platforms, and muzzling such criticism may well be unconstitutional.
LGBTQ activists protest the Queermuseu’s closing.
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Artists, free speech advocates and gay rights activists in Brazil are dismayed after an LGBTQ-centric exhibit was closed because the subject matter offended evangelical Christians.
Twitter logo mod from graffiti seen on a wall during protests in Turkey in July 2013.
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In Turkey, Twitter has become a dangerous platform, with some seven people detained daily for posting anti-government messages.
The author in London in 1986, aged 69.
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In his lifetime Anthony Burgess was a strong advocate of free expression. A forthcoming book promises to bring his political writing back into focus.
Can the president block people from seeing his tweets?
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It’s a new constitutional question for the internet age: Should the president be allowed to block someone on Twitter?
Will the development of tech industry change the economic and social life Iranian youth?
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Tehran is fostering a start-up industry as a possible motor to solve Iran’s unemployment crisis.
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Text and video ‘mining’ could be used to automatically detect violent language and behaviour.
Hassan Rouhani does the rounds at the Tehran book fair.
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Handing over censorship to authors and writers themselves may actually make it harsher.
Here’s why I’m supporting this weekend’s March for Science.
On April 22 people demonstrated in Karachi to condemn the killing of Mashal Khan, accused of blasphemy and murdered on his campus by other students.
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Facebook has agreed to remove 85% of content to respect Pakistan crusade against ‘blasphemy’, leading the way to a whole new era of censorship on freedom of thought.