YouTube, the popular video sharing site owned by Google Inc., has been banned in Thailand for the last five months. What was the offending content? The Wall Street Journal Business Technology blog reports: One of the videos that prompted the ban featured a pair of shoes with the soles...
The Chinese unit of Google, while giving search results, does not show results from the Web sites blocked by the Chinese government. However, Google did not talk about the censorship. But U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, which opposes online c The Chinese unit of Google, while giving...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 22, 1998--Internet industry leaders who have joined forces as the Internet Content Coalition ICC announced today their support in the fight against censorship.
WASHNGTON, Oct. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- World-renowned playwright, poet and artist Sarah Jones today appealed the dismissal on procedural grounds of her censorship suit against the Federal Communications Commission. The appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals fWASHNGTON, Oct. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- World-renowned playwright, poet and artist Sarah...
We in this business bristle at the talk of censorship. But talk we do about it these days, especially when it comes to covering a war. How much should journalists report (as much as they can get their hands on; if military and political leaders...
Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The growing appetite of Chinese consumers for news and entertainment provides tremendous growth opportunities for foreign media companies, but they have to contend with the efforts of Chinese government officials to control Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The growing...
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE rapporteurs Hanne Severinsen and Renata Wohlwend expressed concern over reports of censorship in Ukraine. On 16 October, Severinsen proposed that the European Union can analyze Ukrainian TV programs tParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE rapporteurs Hanne Severinsen and Renata Wohlwend...
The International Press Institute IPI, the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the closure of Al-Jazeera's Baghdad bureau by Iraqi police on 7 August. According to IPI's sources, tThe International Press Institute IPI, the global network of editors, media executives and...
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE rapporteurs Hanne Severinsen and Renata Wohlwend expressed concern over reports of censorship in Ukraine. On 16 October, Severinsen proposed that the European Union can analyze Ukrainian TV progr Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE rapporteurs ...
The International Press Institute IPI, the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the closure of Al-Jazeera's Baghdad bureau by Iraqi police on 7 August. According to IPI's sourc The International Press Institute IPI, the global network of...
Censorship in the modern society has proven to be very necessary. The amount of nudity, violence, and distasteful language that the public is exposed to has steadily increased throughout the past couple of decades. This exposure has been present in all forms of media including both television and video games....
Censorship comes in all shapes and sizes, from trivial to momentous, and is hardly difficult to find in the world today. We generally look towards legislative and/or political solutions to this disease of institutional censorship, but we must also remember that, today, other solutions exist. CHILLIWACK, British Columbia,...
NEW YORK AP -- Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims. Rushdie, whose "The Satanic Verses" led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and forced...
Sir Salman Rushdie has accused his publisher of censorship at the same time as trying to prevent the release of a book that criticises him. The novelist, who spent nearly a decade under a fatwa from the Iranian government after the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988, attacked Random...
BEIJING AFP — Former IOC vice-president Dick Pound slammed the IOC on Tuesday for the way censorship of Internet sites by Chinese authorities had been handled ahead of the Olympic Games, claiming it had done considerable damage to the organisation. The 66-year-old former president of the World Anti-Doping...
Director: Ingmar Bergman (Tartan, 1966) FOR the first and only time, we're lodging with the same director two weeks in a row. This isn't to say Ingmar Bergman is Swedish cinema full stop, but he did make ncomparable contributions to major fi lm styles on more than...
THE world was still in mourning when the 1920 Olympic Games were staged in Antwerp. Belgium was chosen as host nation in recognition of the suffering its people had endured in the First World War - during which, of course, the 1916 Games scheduled for Berlin had been cancelled. ...
LAST week, along with many other foreign editors and journalists, I received a booklet in the post entitled Reporters' Guide To Covering The Beijing Olympics. It had been compiled and sent out by the organisation Human Rights Watch. On the contents page were listed Risks and Rights,...
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