But when platforms flex their muscles in this way, are they restricting, or even censoring freedom of speech and censoring the free press?
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That was this moment where I realized I was doing all of this self-censoring—censoring stuff coming out of my mouth before I said it.
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Censoring social networks is one thing, but censoring WeChat — Tencent's prized asset and China's top messaging app with more than a billion monthly users — is another thing altogether.
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Does removing or censoring users violate their first amendment rights?
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ACROSS THE NATION Facebook exec apologizes for censoring Diamond & Silk .
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Do you think Weibo has become better at censoring content?
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" He then asks: "Does that justify my censoring their speech?
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When we get sick, people around us start censoring themselves.
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Microsoft's Bing is accessible in China by censoring search results.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google have all denied censoring conservative speech.
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Internal documents showed TikTok censoring topics that would anger China.
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"Censoring ideas doesn't make them go away," Ms. Herthel said.
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"FCC doesn't want broadcast companies censoring candidates' speech," Facebook said.
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A new regulatory agency is overseeing output and censoring content.
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A new regulatory agency is overseeing output and censoring content.
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Republicans, meanwhile, have accused the companies of censoring conservative speech.
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Well, look around: Our culture prioritizes censoring language over violence.
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I'm not for censoring or destroying any work of art.
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Many were furious at Twitter for effectively censoring a media outlet.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who accused campus administrators of censoring speech.
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There is a self-censoring culture of silence over predatory behaviour.
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The move triggered a backlash over how Facebook was censoring images.
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Trump accused Twitter of censoring conservatives in a tweet last month.
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Which is why we see these left-wing tech companies censoring.
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Trump accused Twitter of censoring conservatives in a tweet last month.
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"No one should be censoring sermons or targeting pastors," he said.
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The company has vehemently denied censoring political content outside of China.
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Are there ways of regulating all of this without censoring ourselves?
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The same accusation of Christian censoring happened in 2015 as well.
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So Instagram will be limiting their reach rather than censoring the content.
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Again, this is different from shadow-banning, which is censoring actual content.
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But censoring honest and descriptive labels would stifle competition and harm consumers.
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Iran's government says censoring apps is about blocking immoral and obscene content.
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Do you think social media is censoring conservative views and conservative speakers?
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I'm not suggesting censoring anything, but it's something that should be considered.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. accused Twitter of censoring a tweet Wednesday.
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A report for instance called out Amazon for "badly" censoring the content.
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China is censoring comments from the U.S. to play down trade tensions.
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Is censoring the spread of breaking misinformation even possible for these platforms?
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" He added, "In this case, I see YouTube as a censoring machine.
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That led some to wrongly assume Facebook was purposefully censoring their posts.
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The military denies charges that is has been censoring and pressuring journalists.
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So why are you censoring two women of color, two black women?
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TikTok confirmed that it was censoring content critical of the Chinese government.
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"The FCC doesn't want broadcast companies censoring candidates' speech," the company tweeted.
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It's not about censoring what C.D.C. can say to the American public.
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I'm not really interested in censoring anything, but it starts with me.
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When you try to restrict what gets you off, you're censoring yourself.
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Even Google, which in 2009 was preparing to pull out of China after years of censoring its searches there, is now willing to play ball with the government, building a dedicated, self-censoring app solely for the Chinese market.
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Well, Trump Jr. seems to believe Twitter is censoring him on the platform.
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North Korea, after all, has a long history of censoring its leaders' illnesses.
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This month, Republicans questioned Twitter over concerns the platform is censoring conversative speech.
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Orwellian "thought police" are censoring political and social views, language, even Halloween costumes.
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What cause is served by censoring their speech or violently disrupting their events?
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Baidu is known to work with the central government in actively censoring topics.
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Censoring these types of comment also contributes to the sanitization of the web.
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Censoring: "Independent Russian Pollster Self-Censors Ahead of Elections" from The Moscow Times.
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Because what we're doing is censoring the final product, which is the art.
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At the same time, he said, studios should be careful about censoring themselves.
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President Trump has in recent tweets accused the companies of censoring conservative voices.
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The company has traditionally maintained a hardline against censoring anything on the internet.
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This kind of censoring, while not objectively bad, would change the platform completely.
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By not censoring all social media, the government can actually undermine extremist rhetoric.
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Even the most understated of long nails dictate delicate and self-censoring behavior.
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There is often missing data, known as censoring, such as when population fluctuates.
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Critics have accused Blizzard of censoring free speech to appease the Chinese government.
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Norway newspaper editor had blasted Zuckerberg for censoring the iconic Vietnam War photograph.
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"When you're censoring Jews from your game, you're doing something wrong," he says.
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Joe Barton: Why is Facebook censoring conservative bloggers such as Diamond and Silk?
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Or it could provide governments with a more effective way of censoring information.
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But critics accused Facebook of censoring conservative opinions and tamping down free speech.
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At the same time, the company has been accused of censoring conservative viewpoints.
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And they've got an active, anti-Trump ... OD: Essentially, that Twitter's censoring conservatives.
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"This is not a letter calling for silencing, nor censoring," the letter reads.
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Self-censoring to make money in China is a long-standing business practice.
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Twitter did not want to be in the business of censoring the president.
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On the one hand, it's no surprise that TikTok is censoring political speech.
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This legislation also protects administrators from community members who pressure them into censoring.
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He allowed himself to do the whole spectrum — he really wasn't censoring it.
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As a result, they may over-regulate, censoring the good with the bad.
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ABC News has said Lesin had been accused of censoring Russia's independent media.
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When censoring domestic social media in the past, officials have targeted prominent users.
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There are no well-known examples of public broadband censoring content in the U.S. "There is no history of municipal networks censoring anyone's speech," Christopher Mitchell, a community broadband expert and Director of the Institute for Local Reliance, told Motherboard.
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And I know from personal experience that a lot of the censoring is happening.
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The "FCC doesn't want broadcast companies censoring candidates' speech," Facebook said in a tweet.
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"We remain committed to not censoring political speech," a spokeswoman said in response. 6.
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According to Aghdam's father Ismail, the vegan activist "hated" YouTube for censoring her channels.
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The Great Firewall in China and its censoring mechanisms are probably the best known.
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Now, it appears that Twitter is actually censoring those results to exclude President Trump.
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It's not the first time he has suggested Twitter was censoring or blocking tweets.
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Days later, Diamond and Silk accused Facebook of censoring the reach of their posts.
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China has long sought to control the creative arts, from censoring movies to literature.
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Republican lawmakers seem very worried about Facebook's apparent censoring of religious and conservative content.
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Can you say more about self-censoring and how it shapes your Arabic films?
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I don&apost think that a private company should be censoring politicians or news.
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IRIB was implicated in censoring multiple media outlets and airing forced confessions from detainees.
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Mr. Kadyrov seemed to accuse Instagram of censoring him because of his anti-American views.
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Its critics say it opens the door to censoring other kinds of text messages, too.
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That's not to say I'm attempting to become some self-censoring, overly accommodating female stereotype.
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The app does, of course, comply with other government requirements, such as censoring certain topics.
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Sometimes Facebook's own moderators don't appear to know who is responsible for censoring GIF content.
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VICE: What do you think is the main issue with social media censoring your images?
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Facebook has come under criticism for censoring a cancer awareness video because of animated breasts.
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And the Chinese government is a master of control, known for strictly censoring Western media.
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Republican lawmakers routinely accuse the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube of censoring conservative voices.
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This month, Erdogan is back at it again, censoring social media to help suppress protests.
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Social media companies including Facebook have long been accused by Republicans of censoring conservative speech.
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And Republicans have accused social media companies, with little evidence, of censoring conservative viewpoints online.
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"We don't want to be censoring political beliefs, but then they do misbehave," he said.
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Until now, the big tech platforms like Google, YouTube, and Facebook stayed out of censoring.
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Our thought bubble: Facebook prizes openness and has no economic interest in censoring political viewpoints.
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It became controversial when they were accused of censoring conservative voices on "Trending" in 2016.
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Why it matters: The company takes regular flak from the right for censoring conservative voices.
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The regulations prohibit ISPs, such as , or , from slowing or censoring traffic to certain websites.
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Bottom line: It protects you from the government punishing or censoring or oppressing your speech.
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Self-censoring is part of who I am when I work in the Arab world.
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The Trump administration has also threatened to regulate platforms like Facebook for allegedly censoring conservatives.
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Twitter amplified their censoring activity when congressional lawmakers put pressure on them to do so.
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" It added: "Censoring a student's assigned work because of its content would not be acceptable.
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The UK's interest in censoring sites that support sex workers shouldn't come as a total surprise.
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C-Span continued their coverage, while CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin apologized for the lack of censoring.
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"I think there should be no censoring of subject matter, if it's done responsibly," he said.
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The protocol makes Assange's political asylum contingent on censoring his freedom of opinion, speech and association.
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This idea may seem un-American — we would never stand for a government agency censoring speech.
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"We remain committed to not censoring political speech," a spokeswoman said in response to the letter.
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There's a real possibility that Microsoft, which owns GitHub, could be pressured into censoring the repository.
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Members of Congress are criticizing Apple for censoring its music to comply with the Chinese government.
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People aren't going to leave Facebook because it has no way of censoring the real world.
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Twitter, like other social platforms, has been accused of censoring or down-ranking conservative view points.
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Similarly, Mr Sisi fans criticism of religious movements, while censoring even indirect barbs of his rule.
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It is the goal of every authoritarian government: to create a self-censoring, self-policing populace.
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We do it spontaneously, perhaps because when we were children, people were censoring themselves around us.
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Some of the documents showcase how sensitive and nuanced censoring content on Facebook's platform can be.
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If I'd stopped, I'd worry that people would say that I'm censoring something from the public.
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But from civil rights to gay rights, censoring offensive or hateful ideas doesn't lead to progress.
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"To be clear, they absolutely shouldn't be censoring the availability of books like this," Kint said.
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Sex workers are self-censoring on social media to try to avoid removal from mainstream sites.
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" In inadvertently censoring many creators, the platform had gone against its fundamental democratic motto: "Broadcast Yourself.
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On the other, it needs to tow the line between banning harassment and censoring dissenting thoughts.
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Plus, censoring these platforms also takes away an important resource for finding victims—the open internet.
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Facebook and Twitter were not invited, and Trump bashed the companies for censoring right-wing voices.
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President Trump accused social media of censoring non-leftist speech in a tweet earlier this week.
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Led by Trump, they've accused the company and other social-networking corporations of censoring conservative voices.
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Climate scientists may be self-censoring in order to get their work funded through government grants.
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Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have long claimed that social-media companies are censoring conservative speech.
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They could claim they were not censoring a viewpoint, only the words used to express it.
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Treasury also penalized several Iranian officials and groups involved with censoring and monitoring the country's citizens.
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Schmidt argued that if Google stopped censoring search results, it would never get back into China.
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Clegg said that "censoring or stifling political discourse" is "at odds" with what Facebook is about.
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This idea may seem un-American — we would never stand for a government agency censoring speech.
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It has come to John Oliver's notice that Hotstar is censoring his show in India. pic.twitter.
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Reports have emerged that Facebook, for example, is censoring some pro-Iran posts, including on Instagram.
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The ACLU says the incident points to a larger issue of censoring Black students at school.
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The move sparked outrage, with people accusing the app's Chinese developer, ByteDance, of censoring political views.
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It is this contradictory approach to censoring social media content that has conservatives up in arms.
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In addition, President Trump and other Republicans accuse some of the companies of censoring conservative voices.
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Bernie Sanders, echoing many other cases of the Trump administration censoring, ignoring, and undermining climate scientists.
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"Members have lots of questions, we're not censoring anybody," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters.
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West responded on his blog, accusing SLU of censoring him in the name of political correctness.
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Others speculate that writers may be self-censoring, steering clear of issues that could prove troublesome.
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In September, the company came under fire for reportedly censoring posts documenting ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
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I think once we start censoring everything, well, what will there be left to look forward to?
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And by censoring artwork on college campuses, school officials may be sending unintended messages to the artist.
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Last fall, LGBT groups accused Twitter of censoring search terms like "gay" and "bisexual" on their platform.
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This extension does a good job of censoring headlines and blocking certain images related to your keywords.
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Concern has been expressed about Chinese students self-censoring on political topics in the presence of compatriots.
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Ironically, China appears to be censoring people's reactions to the news that some censorship is being lifted.
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It's about really going there about the deep things and the fun things, and not censoring yourself.
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And New York politicians should get out of the business of censoring speech, and threatening businesses, altogether.
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As The Intercept reports, Dragonfly is thought to go a step further than just censoring search results.
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Facebook also recently committed to loosening its censoring standards when it comes to political speech in general.
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If I end up leaving off James Madison in favor of Edmund Burke, I'm hardly "censoring" Madison.
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Nobody expected great things out of today's House Judiciary Committee hearing about social media platforms censoring conservatives.
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London (CNN Business)What's the price of censoring one episode of a Netflix show in Saudi Arabia?
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The idea that Twitter and Facebook are censoring conservatives has been repeatedly pushed by right-wing media.
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Efforts to enact laws aimed at censoring Palestine solidarity enjoy broad support from both major political parties.
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Facebook has struggled throughout the year to mollify conservatives who fear the company may be censoring them.
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"Crooked Hillary has been the hot nickname this month they are totally censoring it," one user said.
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Over the past several months, Republican leaders have increasingly been accusing Big Tech of censoring conservative voices.
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Censoring language, hampering research and suppressing scientific endeavors will only cripple our country and harm the planet.
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Trump also obsessed about his press coverage and complained that Google was censoring favorable stories about him.
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Khan, who took office last year, has denied censoring media and has called the accusations a "joke".
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Khan, who took office last year, has denied censoring media and has called the accusations a "joke".
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So when Facebook limits "free speech" by censoring hateful language online, the First Amendment has no say.
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Responding to the outcry that the company was censoring the Pulitzer Prize–winning image, Facebook reversed itself.
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Activists in Myanmar, for example, have accused Facebook of censoring reports of ethnic cleansing in the country.
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The FCC also bars broadcasters from censoring ads or from taking down ones that make false claims.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly cited random Wikipedia edits as evidence Google is censoring Republicans.
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One British columnist even accused the festival of censoring any negative comments made on its Facebook page.
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Slightly more plausibly, they accuse Facebook of censoring conservative news, while targeting Twitter for shadow-banning right-wingers.
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Katherine Bradford's "Face to Face" (2018) humorously fuses color field theory with the censoring of two male nudes.
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In the letter, Pai asks tech companies for more transparency about whether they are censoring people willy-nilly.
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There's too much public scrutiny at the moment for them to start installing fast lanes or censoring content.
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That, and someone saying, "We're going to kill some f'ing Ns today," she recalled, censoring the racial slur.
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Mitchell said that strategy works because companies are more afraid of censoring voices than keeping their users safe.
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Randazza threatened to tell CNN that the law school was censoring political speech, and the dean backed down.
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The senators also said they are concerned that the app was censoring content "deemed politically sensitive" to Beijing.
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Gosar's legislation is part of a growing movement on the right targeting tech companies for allegedly censoring conservatives.
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China initially responded by censoring news on the mainland, but since then, its rhetoric has become increasingly aggressive.
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Reporters without Borders condemned the move, calling it "a political decision that amounts to censoring this TV broadcaster."
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"A major industry player — such as Google — censoring content is absolutely *information* about the *industry,*" the employee wrote.
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Multiple government agencies are involved in monitoring the media and censoring published information on the internet and elsewhere.
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ABC News and FOX News wrote "s—-hole," censoring the word with "expletive" and "blankhole" respectively during broadcast.
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How does Facebook make sure people don't abuse the system to trick it into censoring non-abusive pictures?
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The crackdowns are reflective of the position China has taken on censoring communications to retain power and control.
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Jones accused those executives of censoring him as well, and nearly got into a physical altercation with Sen.
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Hamas officials had insisted on censoring the festival's offerings, editing out profanity, kissing and women in short skirts.
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The government is censoring EPA websites of information about climate change and related pollution risks to public health.
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Zuckerberg slammed China for allegedly censoring Hong Kong protest videos on TikTok: 'Is that the internet we want?
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We'll just have to take Blitzer's word for it now that CNN isn't continuing that self-censoring practice.
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Mark Zuckerberg has been on the offensive against TikTok in recent months, accusing the platform of censoring content.
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The hearing was focused on whether tech giants such as Facebook are censoring conservative voices on their platforms.
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As Kim Jong-un is finding out, outlawing and censoring the internet cannot stem the flow of information.
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Why it matters: Republican politicians are embracing anger among conservatives who say online platforms are censoring their voices.
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Facebook is not censoring the news and trends it shows users on the site's trending section, Facebook says.
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This isn't the first time Mango TV has come under fire for censoring references to the queer community.
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Right, and it was because the idea was that you didn't pretend that you weren't censoring things. Correct?
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"By censoring it, it puts it out of the control of the censor," says Arweave founder Sam Williams.
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"There's just high margins of error; they are so prone to over-censoring and [potentially] dangerous," she says.
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The second I start doing that its censorship, and when I start censoring my shit, who am I?
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In Myanmar, activists are accusing Facebook of censoring Rohingya Muslims, who are under attack from the country's military.
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The Trump administration, researchers say, is not directly censoring scientific findings or black-balling research on climate change.
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And tech companies like Tencent have for years been accused of censoring politically sensitive topics online in China.
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The punishment upset fans, politicians, and commentators, who condemned Activision Blizzard for censoring a player over his politics.
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The Trump White House and Capitol Hill lawmakers have declared that social media platforms are censoring conservative voices.
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In Myanmar, activists are accusing Facebook of censoring Rohingya Muslims, who are under attack from the country's military.
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If it's wrong, that's just the person's opinion, and Facebook is not in the business of censoring opinions.
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Recently it was found to be censoring politically sensitive terms such as "Tiananmen" and "independence" from its systems.
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In September, reports from the Guardian and the Washington Post claimed that TikTok was censoring politically sensitive content.
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Trump and other top Republicans have accused Silicon Valley companies, without evidence, of censoring and suppressing conservative speech.
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The regime still has truckloads of electronic kit for snooping and censoring, much of it bought from China.
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What we did was brought it to the light, that Facebook has been censoring conservative voices like ourselves!
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Countries struggling with innovation are often run by repressive governments subjugating women and minorities, and censoring free expression.
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BARTIROMO: Are we going to see new legislation to try to stop social media from censoring conservative ideas then?
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Censoring these platforms means forfeiting a resource that naturally facilitates the recovery of victims... Section 230 doesn't cause lawlessness.
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A hallmark of American free speech law is that it prohibits the government from censoring or punishing hate speech.
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Fox host Lou Dobbs even had Diamond & Silk on the show to talk about how Google was "censoring" conservatives.
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Modern history is littered with authoritarians of all stripes convinced that censoring sexual imagery was a necessary social good.
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At the same time, internet giants were increasingly censoring content of their own volition, both at home and abroad.
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Meanwhile, pro-Trump trolls, as well as supporters of Sanders and the administration, are accusing Yelp of "censoring" reviews.
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The First Amendment protects people in the U.S. from the government censoring or punishing you for what you say.
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Other issues include the company's alleged history of algorithmically suppressing queer content from recommended videos and censoring queer advertisements.
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In other words, the film epitomizes a popular claim that Silicon Valley is censoring American conservatives on web platforms.
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It'll be one more example of the mainstream media and Jews censoring someone just trying to speak the truth.
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The new algorithmic review systems will have to be closely managed, though, to avoid accidentally censoring legitimate ads. 3.
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The censors rotate between day and night shifts; the peak time for censoring content is from 6pm to 9pm.
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"[Google] has been criticized by many on the right for censoring content that favors conservative viewpoints," Gabbard's lawsuit says.
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A spike in censoring has occurred around key political dates such as the Tiananmen Square anniversary in early June.
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Censoring, or on the other hand, defining women simply through the prism of victimhood, is unhelpful in this respect.
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Some research suggests that censoring images of active self-harm may be warranted, but the evidence is not conclusive.
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Just in time for Coming Out Day, Logo is temporarily censoring all queer people and dialogue from the show.
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In fact, a leaked 2015 memo from CEO Dick Costolo declared their incompetence in censoring trolls and the like.
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Two months ago, The_Donald came to believe that Imgur was "censoring" its content and began looking for an alternative.
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Appropriately censoring content posted on social media is becoming an increasingly challenging and charged task for social media companies.
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Dorsey then appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee later in the afternoon on censoring and filtering practices.
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The shooter's online postings indicated she was disgruntled with YouTube for allegedly censoring, and not paying for, her videos.
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The report provoked outrage on the right and claims that the social media company was intentionally censoring conservative voices.
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We have just witnessed yet another example of the power of corporate interests censoring free speech, art, and truth.
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" The GOP invited people to add their names to a list of those demanding that Facebook "stop censoring conservatives.
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I had to use some Instagram Story censoring magic in order to share the news to my social networks.
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In the process, he ruled the country with an iron fist -- locking up political opponents and censoring the press.
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Some reporters and editors have even claimed Alden, by way of parent company Digital First Media, was censoring content.
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The error, and the duration of the error, caused some users to believe that Facebook was censoring their speech.
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Trump has also made claims about Google search results censoring positive news about him that took seconds to refute.
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And we are pushing back against governments that are censoring the news, and restricting the work of the press.
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Among other accusations, he has charged Amazon with ripping off the Post Office and Google with censoring conservative users.
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Across the Arab world, intellectuals, writers, activists and ordinary citizens are censoring themselves because when they don't, governments do.
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Why, for example, is the short-form video app censoring the Hong Kong protests but not U.S. political content?
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Beijing responded by heavily censoring content related to "South Park" on search engines like Baidu and other online services.
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But in interviews, many artists said they were self-censoring to avoid angering the government and its conservative supporters.
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China first responded by censoring the protests in the mainland, and since has blamed "foreign interference" for the unrest.
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As criticism mounted, the authorities moved swiftly to limit the discussion, censoring comments and a hashtag about the issue.
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Censoring content Huahua Media has invested in Hollywood blockbusters such as Transformers, The Last Knight and Star Trek Beyond.
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Authorities appear to be censoring mentions of the fire online and suppressing any details of the cause or aftermath.
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Police later say she planned her attack because she was upset about YouTube for censoring and demonetizing her videos.
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I don't think that censoring people holding any of these views would have helped improve the understanding of disability.
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The students need to be able to learn from these paintings and censoring the past won't make it easier.
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It believes that by censoring content and, in some cases, detaining dissidents, it is maintaining political and social stability.
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Jones continues to be allowed a presence on Twitter's platform — and is using his verified Twitter account to scream about being censored all over the mainstream place, hyperventilating at one point in the past 16 hours that 'censoring Alex Jones is censoring everyone' — because, and I quote, "we're all Alex Jones now".
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European Digital Rights, a civil rights group, described the Commission's approach as putting internet giants in charge of censoring Europe.
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Lamar Smith of Texas claimed that Google was censoring the word "Jesus" without providing evidence or allowing Downs to respond.
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I'm not so worried about companies censoring Nazis, but I am worried about the implications it has for everyone else.
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Just to please the Indian authority, it is censoring some content in its catalog, an insider told us last month.
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Since then, they have intended to impact Ukraine's cultural life, censoring the topics of gender, sexuality, and politics in art.
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"We saw Beijing being very reserved and even censoring negative chatter about Donald Trump, which was a surprise," he said.
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The piece exposed the company's censoring of reviews mentioning sexual assault and rape because they featured "non-family friendly" language.
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I'm starting to feel like Australia's policy of censoring TV shows that paint arachnids as unthreatening creatures is spot on.
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Egypt has been censoring access to encrypted messaging app Signal, according to Open Whisper Systems, the company behind the app.
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Facebook is starting to open up about how a story starts trending, following accusations that it's been censoring conservative topics.
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As tempting as it may be, censoring individual trolls is not how the technology industry wins the war against trolling.
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India has a history of censoring sexually explicit and politically sensitive content, and Bollywood is increasingly finding itself under scrutiny.
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Rather than outright censoring content, Chinese officials often set broad guidelines for media companies and then let them censor themselves.
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When certain GOP accounts became inaccessible through the platform's search engine last week, Twitter faced accusations that it's censoring Republicans.
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Often censors don't even have to get involved, as studios have begun self-censoring their films to avoid the hassle.
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Facebook continues to consider, for example, how it can win approval to enter the Chinese market, including by censoring content.
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Big media platforms have been rapped for not censoring their content enough and some have had to take sites offline.
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And now that same Twitter has promoted #SaySomethingGoodAboutTwitter, to counter the criticism it faced for censoring its utility last week.
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He doesn't support censoring culture, he says, and doesn't think a prohibition would have any effect on the violence anyway.
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On his show on Thursday, Jones discussed "the censoring of alternative media and conservatives by establishment tech giants," per InfoWars.
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"Wishbone" earned praise for not censoring or dumbing down the material it adapted, and earned a Peabody and multiple Emmys.
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" The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union replied with a statement on Twitter warning against censoring "unpopular speech.
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Mandela knew that the warders screened his incoming and outgoing correspondence, often withholding both, sometimes for months, or censoring portions.
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I love writers who take risks, break rules, don't succumb to the censoring voice whispering that it can't be done.
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There is a clear line between censoring someone and refusing to provide them with institutional resources for disseminating their ideas.
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China, another authoritarian state, also faced a backlash for censoring social media posts about the outbreak and muzzling state critics.
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WeChat, China's most popular messaging app, has been censoring keywords relating to the COVID-19 outbreak since at least Jan.
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"We are not in the business of censoring ads from candidates on either side of the aisle," Fox's statement read.
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Censoring Climate Change Within one year, the term "climate change" vanished from a staggering number of federal agency website pages.
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"We are not in the business of censoring ads from candidates on either side of the aisle," the statement reads.
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As a part of the Chinese Communist Party's mass surveillance, WeChat has been censoring "sensitive" content for almost a decade.
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Trump's comments as a whole appear to represent a broader view among conservative circles that digital platforms are censoring them.
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TikTok has repeatedly denied censoring or demoting politically controversial content, and tried to emphasize its fun and lighthearted videos instead.
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By crowding out opposition and censoring media coverage, he has rigged the system to all but guarantee his electoral victory.
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Facebook is acutely sensitive to criticism from the right, which has repeatedly alleged that the social network is censoring conservatives.
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Representatives for the companies have appeared before Congress several times in the last year to address claims of censoring conservatives.
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"I can tell you that millions of Texans believe Google is actively censoring the speech of conservatives," Mr. Cruz said.
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Soon after, he says, Facebook started clamping down on dissenting voices by disabling their social media accounts and censoring posts.
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So this decision by YouTube seems like a calculated effort to prevent the spread of offensive content without fully censoring it.
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What's evident with the Reveal post is that the rule isn't simply elucidating users on what's political—it's censoring crucial news.
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Nudge the initial data by any amount, and you lose it—a black hole forms around the singularity, censoring the scene.
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"Big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have become media monopolies and they are censoring people," said O'Keefe by phone.
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First, censoring speech that is seen as discriminatory risks perpetuating existing biases by failing to tackle the core of the issues.
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"But what is racist?" she asked Jacob Soboroff, Melissa Rivers and Jenna Bush Hager during a discussion about censoring Halloween costumes.
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If Trump thinks the government cannot prohibit ISPs from censoring content, it is hard to see why it could censor Twitter.
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And it exploits victims of anti-Muslim bigotry by using their experiences for the political purpose of censoring criticism of Islam.
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Governments throughout the world are increasingly restricting immigration, imposing high tariffs, censoring foreign ideas and turning their countries into walled fortresses.
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There is a fine line between banning hate and bullying on one hand and censoring controversial political opinions on the other.
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In a now-deleted Reddit post, Deadmau5 railed against Twitch for censoring him and criticized people who reported on his ban.
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The company had been censoring search results in China at the behest of the Communist government since launching there in 2006.
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Most importantly, it would allay fears that the pushback against "fake news" is a vehicle for censoring real news and opinion.
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I haven't censored any games from the jam, apart from obvious troll games, because I don't believe in censoring any creativity.
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The promotional video for the app pointedly refers to Instagram as "Dickstagram," calling attention to the social network's nipple-censoring policies.
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Schrage previously worked for Google, where he faced Congressional scrutiny in 2006 for the company's censoring of search results in China.
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"I think that's one possibility, that we start censoring ourselves because we're afraid of upsetting someone with a firearm," Steiner said.
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Moreover, experts interviewed for this article agreed that censoring healed scars is likely an excessive measure, and it may cause harm.
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And this time, no one is complaining or censoring it: on the contrary, it is wall-to-wall on country radio.
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Facebook has denied censoring a viral video taken after a police officer fatally shot a man in his car in Minnesota.
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Iran has long held tight control over the internet, censoring objectionable content and blocking access to services like Facebook and Twitter.
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By 'censoring' I mean deciding not to write or publish things for reasons other than my own judgments of their merits.
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Smith lamented the decision by many media outlets to broadcast or print the word "shithole" in full instead of censoring it.
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Many Republicans — a good amount of whom have accused social media companies of censoring their speech — have praised Facebook's ad policy.
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These self-censoring students find themselves caught in the crossfire of the Left's culture war, and their ideological identity reflects this.
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Censoring Diamond & Silk The pro-Trump social media personalities claimed several times that their posts were censored or downplayed on Facebook.
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Republicans repeatedly suggested at the hearing that the companies are censoring or blocking content from conservatives, a charge the companies rejected.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is demanding that Facebook answer allegations of censoring conservative news on the social media platform.
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I'm not for censoring anybody, but I am for advocating kindness and being considerate of other's feelings before opening your mouth.
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This is being done under the guise of a popular political talking point claiming that social media networks are censoring conservatives.
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The government has tried to obliterate the campaign repeatedly, detaining dozens of activists, censoring their online posts and intimidating their relatives.
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Perhaps the most worrisome question is: To what extent are people censoring themselves for fear of arousing the social media frenzies?
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It's our moral responsibility to speak up, and the changes to the communications policy are censoring us from exercising that responsibility.
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During that pandemic, the Chinese government was initially slow to release information, censoring news and downplaying the severity of the outbreak.
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At the same time, the Cuban government penalized dissent, often censoring, jailing, and even executing so-called traitors to the Revolution.
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That year, Google made a radical change in its operations in China, breaking with the country's practices of censoring internet content.
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To push the discussions a bit further, students might use our "Censoring the Press" handout before small groups share their ideas.
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It simply cannot be wise to begin censoring the flow of information on the network, no matter how just the cause.
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"Over the past few years, we've seen both state and corporate movement toward censoring the internet, particularly around porn," he said.
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Last week it started adding "related" article links to fake news posts in order to mitigate their damage without censoring them directly.
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Several hours later she would go on to shoot three strangers who worked for the company she believed to be censoring her.
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Would employees view this as censoring an unpopular view, or harming efforts to make Google an inclusive environment for women and minorities?
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"I'm not going to stand for Twitch's double standard when it comes to censoring and suspending me for harmless shit," he said.
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The social network has been criticized relentlessly for selectively censoring certain accounts, for reasons some users have speculated are political in nature.
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The year started off with Facebook censoring a photograph of a 500-year-old Italian statue of the nude figure of Neptune.
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Because even if we try to be transparent, can that ever be transparent if behind the scenes the network is censoring you?
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President Donald Trump's latest grievance is with Google, a company he thinks is censoring search results to favor left-wing media outlets.
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Conservatives in Washington are alleging that the gatekeepers to big media and communication channels are silencing their voices and censoring their perspectives.
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If you're not quite sure how to let your loved ones in, start by simply sitting with your emotions without censoring them.
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Censors and company staff say this reduces the pressure of censoring some events, including major political news, natural disasters and diplomatic visits.
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When asked about the Chinese government's controversial role in censoring internet sites, he explained that Sogou has opted to comply with regulations.
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Speaker Ryan had called for the full text to be released and accused the Obama administration of censoring references to Islamic State.
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Chinese authorities have tried to contain the issue, censoring some of the social media posts on Weibo, the country's equivalent of Twitter.
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Big firms like Facebook and Twitter were not invited, and Trump railed against them for censoring conservative voices, something both companies deny.
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In recent years, he has become emblematic of China's assertive stance on blocking websites, censoring content and tracking users within its borders.
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In a new video released by NRATV Thursday, host Colion Noir equates demands for new gun control legislation to censoring press freedom.
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India has a history of censoring sexually explicit and politically sensitive content, and Bollywood is increasingly finding itself at the receiving end.
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Blizzard, which is partly owned by the Chinese gaming giant Tencent, was accused of trying to appease China by censoring the player.
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In Myanmar, a 1962 coup paved the way for decades of repression, including the censoring of the press and thousands of arrests.
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During a recent segment, Oliver also derided Xi for censoring Winnie the Pooh, which Chinese internet users have compared to their president.
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The National Park Service (NPS) released a major report on rising sea levels after the Trump administration was accused of censoring it.
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Across Russian media, except for two or three publications, an acute self-censoring instinct -- put simply, fear -- is now a commanding feeling.
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Censoring the opinions of divergent groups has given rise to "safe spaces" on campuses where students can avoid exposure to alternative perspectives.
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Read more: Mark Zuckerberg just slammed China for allegedly censoring Hong Kong protest videos on TikTok: 'Is that the internet we want?
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The Iranian government has been accused of covering up the scale of the coronavirus and censoring the media's reporting on the outbreak.
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Yes, it's understandable for conservatives to worry that if Silicon Valley censors the likes of Molyneux, it will end up censoring them.
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In order to avoid jail time, artists began self-censoring, particularly when dealing with issues related to ethnic minorities, politics, and religion.
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The government has tried to eliminate the memory of Tank Man, censoring images of him and punishing those who have evoked him.
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Conservatives have accused Facebook, YouTube and other platforms of censoring right-wing views in the past, and have rallied behind him before.
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Far-right activists are in a showdown with some of the technology world's biggest names, accusing them of censoring right-wing views.
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Others have praised Weibo for allowing the discussion to be published, reacting to the news that Facebook had been censoring some posts.
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Censoring photographs to avoid angering a political leader is not a new phenomenon: Stalin's regime famously manipulated photographs to shape public perception.
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More often than not, style writers have been more interested in censoring conservative words while promoting language that liberals tend to favor.
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Trump has also questioned the companies over antitrust concerns and with Republican lawmakers has accused social media platforms of censoring conservative views.
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TikTok is owned by a Chinese parent firm, ByteDance, and has been accused of censoring content that would irk the Chinese government.
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He said Facebook has no interest in censoring political speech, addressing a major complaint of conservatives who feel squelched on social media.
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If you've spent a lot of time on Instagram, chances are you've heard of the social media platform's highly-debated nipple-censoring policies.
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Months later, Google announced it was pulling its search engine out of the market, saying "it "could no longer continue censoring our results.
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"Unfortunately due to censoring issues we have had to cancel 'Rocketman'," Apollo Cinemas, in the Samoan capital Apia, said on its Facebook page.
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In the court documents, his attorneys were also critical of special measures censoring any messages Guzman wishes to pass on to his family.
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I'm not big on censoring her music or movies, but there are plenty of shows and movies we don't think she should watch.
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"As a young, queer girl, I was [not surrounded by] people existing the way they were without censoring themselves," she says in retrospect.
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The company has come under fire recently for censoring content related to the Hong Kong protests while allowing the #trump2020 hashtag to thrive.
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YouTube creators have often struggled with censoring their own content over fear that their videos will be demonetized, thus affecting their earning potential.
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But in reality, it had been censoring topics China doesn't want its citizens to know about — like the Hong Kong protests, for example.
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While there may be legal precedent for removing the Nickelback video, there is also plenty of precedent for censoring language that incites violence.
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Over the last two weeks, gamers have been calling for boycotts of the company, accusing it of censoring political views to appease China.
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Censoring a professional player for expressing support for the democracy movement in Hong Kong — and seizing his money — is way over the line.
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His suspicion was based on a pattern of Chinese officials censoring public figures from around the world who expressed sympathies toward Hong Kong.
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In short, if Trump is under the impression that the First Amendment prohibits companies from censoring speech generally, it is a misguided one.
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"The anti-vaxx movement will consider this an outstanding Christmas present, and they'll say the clinic is just censoring whistleblowers," Caplan told Gizmodo.
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After apparently censoring a popular hashtag related to LGBT issues, the Chinese social network restored access Tuesday following a major backlash from users.
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Their complaint: companies like Facebook are censoring them as part of a left-wing conspiracy to silence conservative voices, and this is unfair!
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BARTIROMO: OK. NUNES: So I don&apost know what Twitter&aposs up to, it sure looks to me like they are censoring people.
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President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro accused Twitter of censoring by suspending 180 government-related Twitter accounts, including TV and radio stations, Reuters reported.
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What the left doesn't get about censoring Alex Jones John McWhorter writes on the furor over Megyn Kelly's NBC interview with Alex Jones.
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Several women have criticized the site for removing photos showing menstrual blood, and others have pointed out its double standards for censoring nipples.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with prominent US conservatives today to address concerns his social network was censoring news from right-leaning outlets.
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Trump last week blasted Google, accusing the search giant of censoring right-wing media outlets and promoting news sites critical of his administration.
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Dash isn't just censoring songs either, it's doing it with the numerous radio shows, live and prerecorded, from personalities over its 80 stations.
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Censoring social media is the norm, and we've seen crackdowns in countries like Egypt and China and Turkey over the last several years.
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A coach in Blizzard's Overwatch League was told to delete a tweet condemning the company for censoring an esports competitor from Hong Kong.
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Trump last week blasted Google, accusing the search giant of censoring right-wing media outlets and promoting news sites critical of his administration.
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Its steps in censoring the science on public health will result in many, many more children, babies, and adults getting sick and dying.
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Declining to cover the emails would play into accusations that the media is censoring news that would be helpful to Donald J. Trump.
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In the past year, the president has accused several online giants of censoring conservative voices, in particular giants like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
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While mainstream conservatives accommodate political correctness — criticizing its excesses, but dutifully self-censoring on delicate issues — the alt-right takes a different approach.
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The report found the primary reason for censoring art and/or imprisoning artists is expressing alternative political opinions and being critical of government.
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Tech giants, like Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, have faced scrutiny in the past for censoring or reportedly offering to censor content in China.
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There exists a kind of silent censoring of any attempt to understand a person's ugly behavior rather than seeking exclusively to punish it.
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While they scrambled, rumors spread among Facebook's users over the source of the bug, with many accusing the company of censoring people's speech.
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It should also sanction Abbas Salehi, who heads the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which is also responsible for censoring the press.
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China, renowned for censoring what citizens can see on the internet, muzzling state critics, and surveilling its people, has also faced a backlash.
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Meanwhile, alongside the arrests, Jinjiang itself was removing and self-censoring much of its queer content in an attempt to placate the government.
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None of the three people could say what penalties, if any, the order would envision for companies deemed to be censoring political viewpoints.
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After the Saudi columnist's murder, intellectuals, writers and activists across the Middle East are increasingly censoring themselves out of fear of their governments.
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Ample & growing evidence exists that TikTok's platform for western markets, including the U.S., are censoring content in line with #China's communist government directives.
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Warren wants to say things she knows to be untrue, we believe Facebook should not be in the position of censoring that speech.
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The big picture: The app insists it operates independently, but U.S. lawmakers are looking to investigate TikTok for censoring content to please China.
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Bytedance says that it's censorship of HK protest content on #TikTok is simply consistent with their broader policy of censoring all political content.
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The reality, however, is that TikTok isn't censoring all political content or just the "non-fun" stuff, as it would have you believe.
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People are comparing your companies to Big Tobacco, and Congress is accusing your executives of undermining democracy, poisoning users' brains and censoring content.
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At the time of this writing, a stickied post on r/Wuhan_flu alleges that the other Covid-19 Reddit communities are censoring information.
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"The line between supporting and encouraging actions and seeking to help is nonexistent or fuzzy at best," Granick said about censoring online content.
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In 2010, as head of public policy for Asia Pacific, LaJeunesse executed the company's "landmark decision" to stop censoring search results in China.
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He sued Twitter and a number of its users for $250 million in March, alleging that the tech giant was censoring conservative voices.
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Joe Barton (R-TX) said he had been asked to inquire why Facebook was "censoring conservative bloggers" such as Diamond and Silk. Rep.
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Like ex-communist and communist countries Russia and Cuba, China currently has its fair share of homophobic policies, including censoring all queer content online.
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By censoring anything, Facebook has created the expectation that there are rules for using its platform (most would agree that some rules are necessary).
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The Trump administration is also censoring, withholding or claiming it can't find more records requested under the Freedom of Information Act than ever before.
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In prepared remarks, Dorsey put to rest claims that Twitter is censoring or discouraging right-wing views—the very controversy responsible for Wednesday's hearing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing a new law that would allow him to control the internet by censoring content he doesn't approve of.
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Zuckerberg has been in the crosshairs of Congress following the 2016 election and amid accusations lobbed by the right that Facebook is censoring conservatives.
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"We remain committed to not censoring political speech, and will continue exploring additional steps we can take to bring increased transparency to political ads."
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"The solution to manipulation and disinformation lies not in censoring websites but in teaching citizens how to detect fake news and commentary," Kelly continued.
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Wade reached out to BuzzFeed News a few days after his initial interview to say that he thought TikTok was soft-censoring his account.
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Today, Marco Rubio called on lawmakers to open an investigation into ByteDance's TikTok, citing evidence that the Chinese company is censoring content in America.
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Under its process, it is reviewing and censoring them page-by-page to remove personal details such as private phone numbers or email addresses.
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Users could tweet anonymously, could contact high-profile users without first getting their permission, and rarely had to worry about Twitter censoring their content.
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They were censoring paintings down there but I didn't know that until later, thinking about what paintings they knocked out and what paintings survived.
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Strangely, amidst growing concerns over tech platforms censoring radical right-wing personalities, some Republicans seem to be more supportive than Democrats of Warren's policy.
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"I'm not going to stand for twitch's double standard when it comes to censoring and suspending me for harmless sh*t," the DJ said.
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Censoring further stigmatizes people who may already be struggling with stigma surrounding EDs, who would benefit more from support than from stigma, she said.
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This may be because apart from some automated censoring systems, Twitter relies on cloud-sourcing to flag up the majority of the sensitive material.
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After all, it wouldn't be the first time; in 2013, Tumblr attempted to ban NSFW tags and wound up censoring queer content before backtracking.
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Zuckerberg took aim at TikTok for censoring its content in a recent speech amid criticism of Facebook's policy against taking down fake political ads.
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Lawmakers and advocates have also suggested that TikTok may be censoring politically sensitive content, including information about pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Sen.
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In another tweet McCarthy questioned if Twitter was censoring conservative host Laura Ingraham, but that outcome was the result of his own Twitter settings.
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Facebook is one of the big tech companies which multiple Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have accused of censoring conservative speech on their platforms.
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As every internet user knows, censorship usually sparks the Streisand effect, which states that censoring information only ends up drawing more attention to it.
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Because of the precise nature of Cloudflare's business, and the scarcity of competitors, its role censoring internet speech is not just new, it's terrifying.
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If I think, I end up censoring myself, but if I think less, and if I embrace stupidity, then the pictures come out better.
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As Facebook employees grope for the right answers, they have allowed extremist language to flourish in some countries while censoring mainstream speech in others.
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He brings to mind Joseph Heller's Yossarian in "Catch-22," who has the job of censoring letters and turns it into an arbitrary game.
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None of the points Oliver made in his show violate a list of factors that some streaming services in India consider before self-censoring.
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In short, I find myself in an educational environment in which outrage, censoring and public shaming has begun to replace critique, disagreement and debate.
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In China, the country's most popular messaging app, WeChat, has been censoring messages containing keywords related to the outbreak, according to a new report.
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The move follows months of complaints and hearings in which conservatives have derided Facebook and Google (with little actual evidence) for censoring the right.
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"You are censoring conservatives, and I am asking you, President Donald Trump, to help us," she shouted, bringing the hearing to a sharp halt.
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Two major Chinese social-media platforms have been censoring coronavirus content since the moment China formally reported the outbreak, according to a new report.
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This was likely because of a lack of interest in an old nature documentary, but it also dovetails nicely with Disney's self-censoring impulse.
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Public filter, please There's been a worrisome trend underway when it comes to intelligence, one which Grenell is well positioned to accelerate: censoring intelligence.
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A Cabinet minister said Monday that the government would not rule out censoring the internet in a bid to regain control of the city.
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Censoring speech removes the freedom to choose what to take in and to express to others, and this inevitably leads to depression in people.
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Why not stop censoring the word monkey in football but turn the concept around and say instead that in the end we're all apes?
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That stance also avoids putting them further in the crosshairs of Trump and other Republicans who have accused the tech giants of censoring conservatives.
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The irony in China's criticism is apparent, given Beijing's history of obscuring facts and censoring stories that officials deem a threat to the party.
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For far too long, Big tech has gotten away with censoring the silent majority because of WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN!
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It appears as of Wednesday that the search engine is no longer accessible in China, even despite the company's commitment to censoring its search results.
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"But what is racist?" she asked Jacob Soboroff, Melissa Rivers and Jenna Bush Hager on Megyn Kelly Today during a discussion about censoring Halloween costumes.
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Firing a woman for failing to perform her assigned task of censoring other women's speech, displays a level of callousness and recklessness that is unusual.
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Some conservative groups and lawmakers have accused Facebook and other social media outlets of censoring politically conservative points of view, a charge that Facebook denies.
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The company has been accused of having a "black people problem" by a former employee, and it's been accused of censoring black people by users.
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"Politicians are trying to bully you into being a fact-checker," Barr said, trying to then get Zuckerberg to commit to not censoring Donald Trump.
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It's a much more proactive approach than Facebook has ever taken before, but it also puts Facebook dangerously into the territory of censoring its users.
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It would prohibit them, the brief says, from censoring racist or bullying content on their platforms that "inflict great pain or emotional stress on others".
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Censoring large sections of people's voices out of your view is sometimes necessary, for example, when you're being harassed or targeted by a troll campaign.
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This is the language women use when they're not censoring themselves; where they can admit they don't want to be single and in their 40s.
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The bug has caused some users to worry that the White House, Trump's supporters, or Twitter's employees could be censoring their messages to the president.
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"HAPPENING: YouTube is CURRENTLY mass censoring and deleting videos of the 2016 election night meltdown," the post, which currently has more than 5,000 upvotes, states.
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"We've been investigating over the weekend, and have confirmed that Egypt is censoring access to Signal," a tweet from Open Whisper Systems on Monday reads.
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The show ended up censoring words like "Fox Searchlight" and "tectonic shift" ... however you clearly heard Frances say "shite" on the live East coast feed.
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As the NYT reported, far-right activists claim many Silicon Valley companies, also including Airbnb and PayPal, of censoring right-wing views on their platforms.
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There are also concerns that censoring self-harm may affect other populations such as injured veterans, people with burn injuries, and people recovering from surgery.
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Trump Jr. during the Fox News interview also accused Instagram of censoring him over a critical post about the Smollett incident that was taken down.
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They asked him why the company was censoring conservatives like Diamond & Silk, the vloggers who regularly opened for Donald Trump at his 2016 campaign rallies.
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LEADING THE DAY TECH & MEDIA: Trump on Tuesday launched new attacks against the Silicon Valley companies that conservatives have accused of censoring right-leaning speech.
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Other authoritarian countries—notably Russia and China—have learned valuable lessons from the Arab Spring and are now closely monitoring and censoring social media platforms.
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US companies are being accused of censoring or removing content to appease the Chinese government, which controls access to the China's massive and lucrative market.
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Dozens of naked protesters gathered outside of Facebook's New York offices to raise concerns about the social media platform censoring works of art featuring nudity.
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They realized that they do not have to because by imposing crippling penalties, major companies will be forced into censoring speech under poorly defined standards.
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Revenue from its censoring business is forecast to have jumped 166 percent last year, the company said in a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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Many applaud this action; what could be wrong, one might ask, with censoring content or people online who violate "community standards" with hate-filled diatribe?
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Folks at a Liverpool fansite spoke to one like-minded fan, however, and he's not getting anything published in the Daily Mail without some censoring.
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According to many of them, the cancellation was just another example of how liberals are unfairly censoring free speech by conservatives whose views they oppose.
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And this year Mr. Walsh had Mr. O'Keefe on his show, praising Mr. O'Keefe's "great new undercover report" alleging that Twitter was censoring conservative ideas.
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And as Russia's rappers have argued, the country's grave drug problem is not their doing, and censoring it out of their work won't solve it.
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Instagram posts spelling out "We're taking Google/YouTube to court" and "Help us tell big tech to stop censoring PragerU" have more than 15,000 likes.
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The early rollout of Disney+Hotstar comes at a rough time for Disney that has received criticism for censoring John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" show.
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"We are not censoring their content; as long as it abides by our community standards, the content can run on the platform," Ms. Everson said.
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"Ample & growing evidence exists that TikTok's platform for western markets, including the U.S., are censoring content in line with #China's communist government directives," he tweeted.
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"Ample & growing evidence exists that TikTok's platform for western markets, including the U.S., are censoring content in line with #China's communist government directives," he tweeted.
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"Ample & growing evidence exists that TikTok's platform for western markets, including the U.S., are censoring content in line with #China's communist government directives," tweeted Rubio.
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Locking down Sith translation would mirror real governments and companies coordinating to ban ISIS propaganda, or even game developers censoring Hitler's mustache under German law.
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Whether the goal is to help secure funding, prosthelytize, or garner favor with a subset of voters, censoring words narrows our thinking and our world.
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Activists in Myanmar say Facebook has been removing their posts documenting ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people and censoring their accounts, according to The Daily Beast.
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Trump regularly alleges Google, Facebook and Twitter are biased against conservatives and has threatened to look into whether the companies are improperly censoring certain people.
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Instead, they end up self-censoring or dropping their potentially controversial stories out of fear of retaliation -- against them personally or against their faculty adviser.
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"Ample & growing evidence exists that TikTok's platform for western markets, including the U.S., are censoring content in line with #China's communist government directives," Rubio tweeted.
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Although few speakers draw headlines and protests, many students, and some faculty, are self-censoring for fear of the social consequences and inviting the mob.
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Workers are briefed at the beginning of their shift on the newest censoring instructions sent by clients, which the clients themselves receive from government censors.
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"Censoring language and viewpoints violates First Amendment rights and does not represent what Cal Poly stands for as a university," Lazier wrote in an emailed statement.
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Jones attended a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday with social media executives, who he's repeatedly charged with censoring him and other right-leaning personalities and websites.
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All because unfettered propaganda news organizations, the social media organizations censoring out bias not liked, and allowing bad actors to verbally others not in agreement, harassment.
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He insists that this is "definitely for the women," but the black boxes censoring their thong-clad behinds while they prance around on stage suggest otherwise.
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Having just finished recording their second album, the band have admitted to self-censoring and covering less abrasive topics to get the new songs past authorities.
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As chaotic as the big platforms are right now, in other words, users' expectations are not the thing that's preventing them from moderating — censoring — more speech.
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But a proliferation of social-media pages are covering the protests, while more established outlets, like 203% Noticias, a TV news channel, have stopped censoring themselves.
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Pacifico Silano has accused the mayor and staff of a South Florida beach town of censoring his queer-themed exhibition and canceled his show in protest.
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As early as 1848, when the German government stopped censoring printed matter, doors opened for the printing of persuasive materials, such as newspapers, magazines, and ads.
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Media sources said authorities were censoring anything found objectionable, minimizing the prospect that any outcry on social media platforms could spur a backlash against U.S. brands.
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For years, anti–social justice trolls and right-wing media personalities have railed against the tech industry for censoring their viewpoints and blocking them from services.
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And in Turkey, under the administration of President Erdogan, the country has become notorious for censoring websites and blocking hashtags, at one point banning Twitter altogether.
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"Eff everything and f everybody who ever tells you you can't do it," she said, self-censoring so as not to be slapped with a fine.
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Will Steffen of the Climate Change Institute at Australian National University said it was troubling that a government department had succeeded in censoring a global report.
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The Facebook CEO has been sounding the alarm against TikTok, criticizing the platform for censoring its users and scrubbing content that might displease the Chinese government.
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The commissioners noted that since the libraries already have hard copies of The Times, they were not censoring anything by opting against funding the digital subscriptions.
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Journalist Isaac Stone Fish said Wednesday that American universities are censoring themselves when it comes teaching about China in order to have access to the country.
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" Doyle lined up a series of softball questions for Dorsey about if he was censoring and shadowbanning conservatives on his platform to which Dorsey replied "no.
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The probe comes after lawmakers called for an investigation into TikTok and its owner over fears the app is censoring content offensive to the Chinese government.
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Google filed by the conservative educational site PragerU that alleged the internet giant was censoring its YouTube videos.
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"Brian and I agree that we must not ever be seen to be censoring what our customers read and influencing their freedom of choice," Branson wrote.
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Facebook does not delete the content, because it does not want to be seen as censoring free speech, and says demoting false content sharply reduces abuse.
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"There is no history of municipal networks censoring anyone's speech," Christopher Mitchell, a community broadband expert and Director of the Institute for Local Reliance, told Motherboard.
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But more recently, the government has worked to eliminate the memory of Tank Man, censoring images of him online and punishing those who have evoked him.
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Hong Kong television stations and newspapers have vigorously reported on the protests, but the authorities in mainland China are censoring reports on events in the territory.
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As Facebook employees search for the right answers, we found, they have allowed extremist language to flourish in some countries while censoring mainstream speech in others.
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The challenge comes, if you don't like what's going on, if they're favoring some websites over others or blocking or censoring content, what do you do?
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Republicans, already concerned that the platform was censoring conservative views, accused Facebook of fueling what they claimed were meritless conspiracy charges against Mr. Trump and Russia.
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That's true, and also something to keep in mind when one of Murdoch's mouthpieces tries to claim the real complaint is that Google is censoring conservatives.
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Hua has accused the US of "lying and slander" as Ortagus has called China out for destroying virus samples, silencing doctors, and censoring public concerns online.
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"We have heard from some who believe we are censoring the history of our campus and bending to political correctness," said Terri Carbaugh, a university spokeswoman.
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Mr. Vucic now presents himself as progressive and pro-European, but as minister of information in the Milosevic government, he was responsible for censoring news coverage.
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Censoring intelligence — either by blocking it or by intimidation — means any officials who actually care about sound policymaking won't have accurate intelligence to guide their decisions.
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"Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker" criticized the censoring of the "adult services" section of Craigslist and defended the rights and dignity of sex workers.
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Elizabeth Warren, another Democratic contender, has threatened to break up the company and other technology giants, while conservatives have accused Zuckerberg of censoring right-wing voices.
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On Monday, Aziz was banned from using TikTok on her phone, prompting widespread outrage and accusations that the Chinese company was censoring criticism about the country.
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The researchers suspected that if individuals actually aired their embarrassing stories, it would relieve this feeling of impending judgment and encourage them to stop censoring themselves.
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Cruz, who has accused social media giants of censoring conservatives, has floated amending or revoking Section 230 protections if platforms can't prove they're moderating content neutrally.
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But critics said the guidelines were an attempt at "censoring" the profitable industry and could deprive its many fans of the chance to watch its stars.
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PragerU, a conservative educational site, is suing Google and its subsidiary YouTube, accusing the video site of censoring its online videos because of their political leanings.
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Chinese state media was banned from running propaganda ads against the protesters, which prompted the Chinese government to complain that Facebook and Twitter were censoring China.
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In scrambling to respond to the protests, Iranian officials disconnected almost the entire country from the internet, effectively censoring the true extent of casualties and destruction.
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As Google faces internal pressure, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have increasingly accused the search giant of censoring conservative voices, pointing to its outspoken progressive employees.
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His flaw was a lack of patience with his own deeply felt humanism, self-censoring even his love of Beethoven in pursuit of the public good.
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He has repeatedly accused Twitter, Facebook and Google of censoring and suppressing conservative speech on their platforms, although evidence is lacking and the companies deny it.
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It does seem to suggest that Trump thinks increasing surveillance of internet use and possibly censoring certain swaths of it should be considered a counterterrorism technique.
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Conservatives in and out of Congress have been claiming for months — with varying amounts of evidence — that Big Tech companies are censoring voices on the right.
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Khan's PTI party is reportedly backed by the country's powerful military, which has been accused of intimidating candidates from the competing party and censoring major news outlets.
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The Facebook -owned platform subsequently agreed to change its policies towards suicide content, saying it would start censoring graphic images of self-harm, after pressure from ministers.
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Swara Bhaskar A Bollywood star who has become right-wing Twitter's favorite punching bag in India has told BuzzFeed News she has no intention of censoring herself.
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Spotify did not respond to a question about whether it was concerned about critics who may accuse it of censoring artistic expression by the time of publication.
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In the wake of his Li's death, Chinese authorities have been trying to control public opinion online by censoring social media posts critical of the Chinese government.
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Their opponents say that this means limiting what individuals do and say, for instance by censoring frank discussions of gender, or forbidding the emulation of minority cultures.
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The exhibition After 'Freedom of Expression?' was meant to probe Japan's history of art censoring and celebrate artworks that had been previously excluded from museums in Japan.
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The sketch also poked fun at the censoring of Frances McDormand's speech as she accepted the award of best performance by an actress in a motion picture.
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The situation appears to be a DNS (domain name system) corruption, one method for China to block websites through its intricate censoring system called the Great Firewall.
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But under questioning from senators, Bhatia declined to commit to not censoring content in China or to undergoing a third-party audit of its content moderation policies.
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A day after it declared a site-wide ban on Tumblr, Indonesia decided Thursday to take a more measured approach to censoring objectionable content on the site.
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Facebook has admitted to censoring a video posted by activists protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, with the social network blaming the removal on its automated spam filter.
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How can Dami stay mad at you for censoring her texts when you're doing it with a delicious frozen hot chocolate and steaming cup of Canadian joe?
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China's communist government maintains an iron grip on information in the country, censoring information on the internet on topics ranging from political opponents of Beijing to sex.
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But, if you think a lot of media are really, really biased, then censoring citizens and candidates and giving the media a monopoly is a terrible idea.
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WhatsApp users in China are reporting that the app isn't properly working across the country, sparking concerns that the Chinese government is censoring the encrypted messaging app.
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The Guardian's recent report about TikTok's moderation guidelines has brought into question how TikTok is suppressing and censoring "highly controversial topics" likely to anger the Chinese government.
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Proponent of the rule say it will give carriers the ability to crack down on spam messages, and critics say it could lead to carriers censoring messages.
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Reaction to the move was not unanimous, however, and on the left and the right there was some criticism of Facebook for censoring anyone using their platforms.
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Lu defended blocking some websites and censoring online posts, saying that if the government were being too restrictive, China's online market would not be developing so rapidly.
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Reports have emerged of the company censoring content it fears may anger the Chinese government, and US lawmakers have characterized it as a potential national security threat.
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In June, 72-year-old John condemned Russia for censoring gay sex and drug scenes in "Rocketman", while Samoa banned the film over its depiction of homosexuality.
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Its section about war correspondents portrayed journalism as close to spying, said reporters should get authorization to enter a war zone, and spoke of censoring their work.
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Brack addressed the situation during the opening moments of BlizzCon, but his comments did not acknowledge the accusations that Blizzard was censoring Blitzchung to satisfy Chinese interests.
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Short video app TikTok, which has been download over 1 billion times, in particular has been scrutinized for allegedly censoring content that could anger the Chinese government.
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Related to the above question: In July 2016, WikiLeaks complained that Facebook was censoring links to a page on its website that hosted the hacked D.N.C. emails.
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In 2016, the company was criticized for censoring a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young girl running naked after a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
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Is it a way for the White House to fuel the narrative that social media companies are unfairly censoring people and look into whether that's the case?
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It's possible that the Archive of Our Own, which has always been strident about not censoring content, became one of the first casualties under the new law.
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Ms. Loomer made her own attempt to halt the proceedings, standing up in the House hearing room to publicly accuse Mr. Dorsey of lying about censoring conservatives.
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" Roose noted that in addition to the Russian chicanery, "In Myanmar, activists are accusing Facebook of censoring Rohingya Muslims, who are under attack from the country's military.
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Popular Chinese social-media apps have been censoring keywords and messages about the coronavirus since the day China formally reported the outbreak, a new report has found.
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"Oftentimes, in those states, what you'll see is people just censoring themselves: taking the review down, apologizing, editing the review, retracting, those sorts of things," he says.
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They said the app's Chinese developer, ByteDance, was censoring views that went against the Chinese Communist Party, indicative of the delicate balance the company finds itself in.
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And the rally's leaders have complained in their social media posts of a "heckler's veto," saying that the counter-protests are effectively censoring their free speech rights.
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In its Thursday filing, Netflix criticized that decision for censoring the comedy group Porta dos Fundos, which produced the special in which Jesus is portrayed as homosexual.
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Democrats have pushed them to crack down more forcefully on white nationalist extremism, while Republicans have leveled unproven allegations that social media companies are censoring conservative voices.
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It issued a statement after the proposal was first aired, saying the school "reaffirms its commitment to academic freedom and rejects any attempt at censoring academic curricula".
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Meanwhile, TikTok, the world's most-downloaded app this year and China's greatest global social media success, has strenuously denied censoring users' content about the Hong Kong protests.
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She has found that when she limits her editing brain, she doesn't venture as far from the initial source of inspiration — which also means self-censoring less.
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They will no longer be prohibited from censoring or throttling content whenever they see fit, even if doing so only benefits the services from which they directly profit.
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"The governor should stop censoring people in public forums just because he disagrees with them," Karin Leuthy, one of the women who've had their profile blocked by Gov.
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Part of Facebook's reluctance to censoring what people shares on their feeds might come from a philosophical standpoint of whether the company is, in fact, a media company.
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When you hear someone complaining that by censoring a tweet or kicking someone off of Facebook or YouTube, they're encroaching on their First Amendment rights, that's not true.
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On Friday, amid increasingly vocal calls for the company to ban President Donald Trump from its service, Twitter defended its policies against censoring world leaders on its platform.
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Snap's decision to restrict access to Al Jazeera is the latest instance of a social-media firm censoring content in a country to comply with repressive media laws.
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"While we don't believe in censoring content because of an artist's or creator's behavior, we want our editorial decisions — what we choose to program — to reflect our values."
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The day after WikiLeaks dumped more than 22016,000 leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee, the organization claimed on Twitter that Facebook was censoring links to the material.
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Likewise, nearly two-thirds (66.1%) do not trust Facebook to treat all political views equally and 64.6% believe sites like Facebook are intentionally censoring conservatives and conservative ideas.
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At the same time, the rush to clean up platforms has raised new questions about the appropriate tactics for censoring content — and answers have been hard to find.
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The immunity provision of Hawley's bill echoes concerns from other politically conservative lawmakers that these platforms are censoring right-wing voices by unfairly removing them from the platform.
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House Judiciary Committee Republicans brought Diamond and Silk, two famous black women Trump supporters, to Capitol Hill for a hearing in April on social media platforms censoring conservatives.
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That's because she proudly and frequently shares them on social media — not just to show off their naked greatness, but often to point out sexist nudity censoring policies.
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Sinbad thinks Louis C.K. is dangerously close to losing his mind and pulling a Michael Richards, but he still believes it's a terrible idea to start censoring comedians.
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WeChat entered the global limelight in the worst possible way when it was seen censoring users around the world who entered certain politically sensitive phrases into the app.
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First, simply acknowledging the choice between erring on the side of censoring too much or too little content may help provide some coherence on a seemingly incoherent process.
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In countries where government corruption and censoring of media inhibit transparency, technology platforms have been paramount to bring about major change when governments and development organizations could not.
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This is one of many ways the Trump administration has been censoring science in more than 300 actions and counting, according to a tracker kept by Columbia University.
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The news comes on top of more general guidelines revealed earlier this week that showed TikTok was censoring topics that were political sore spots for the Chinese government.
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Censoring corporate speech deprives Americans of the opportunity to hear certain messages and signals that such speech is bad or dangerous simply because of where it comes from.
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" The president complained that Google was deliberately censoring "Republican/Conservative media" and showing search results that were critical of him from what he called the "Fake News Media.
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"Seems extraordinary that Google is considering censoring its content to get into China but won't cooperate with UK, US ... in removing child abuse content," Hunt said on Twitter.
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TikTok, the buzzy spiritual heir apparent to Vine, has a history of censoring political content in line with the Chinese government, internal documents viewed by The Guardian reveal.
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Without those protests, organized on the platforms that are now censoring us, the city officials may have successfully curtailed the industry, putting hundreds of women out of work.
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That same year, Facebook faced controversy over its real name policy, and revealed that it was experimenting on its users in addition to censoring and manipulating their behaviour.
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Since a coup in 2014, the Thai authorities have increasingly cracked down on internet freedom, and Facebook has previously been accused of censoring content that criticizes the regime.
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As part of Beijing's campaign, Chinese-language media here, relied on by the many Chinese-Australians for whom English is a second language, are pressured into self-censoring.
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In the wake of the purge, Mr. Kolfage launched a website that accuses Facebook of censoring conservative views, but his GoFundMe page makes no mention of these websites.
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The social network has also been criticized for failing to take down hateful rhetoric aimed at marginalized populations while censoring posts that many saw as providing valuable information.
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Critics now believe that the rules will spread even more fear among Chinese citizens, who will end up self-censoring rather than face the wrath of the authorities.
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Why it matters: These campaigns, which aim to discredit the massive protests underway in Hong Kong, show China not only censoring information domestically but increasingly promoting disinformation abroad.
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On Saturday, the Chinese government, which strictly controls the internet, appeared eager to limit discussion of the topic, censoring some posts on Weibo and other social media networks.
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But the government, wary of letting fear run rampant, is also working meticulously to control the narrative about the virus by censoring news articles and social media posts.
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But the government, wary of letting fear run rampant, is also working meticulously to control the narrative about the virus by censoring news articles and social media posts.
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Mr. Xi's authoritarian government has vowed to do better this time, but it's already controlling the narrative about the virus by censoring news articles and social media posts.
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The hiring of a top GOP staffer comes at a time when Google faces unsubstantiated accusations from Republicans that it and other Silicon Valley giants are censoring conservatives.
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In September, a report from The Washington Post suggested TikTok was censoring content related to the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, likely to appease the Chinese government.
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"If Senator Warren wants to say things she knows to be untrue, we believe Facebook should not be in the position of censoring that speech," the spokesperson said.
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Fact-checkers at one of the participating organizations where Julia (not her real name) serves as director, were targeted by groups who thought the organization was censoring the right.
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Some of May's photos had to be removed after they were reported to Facebook for apparently violating Facebook's nudity guidelines, but she has restored them after some minor censoring.
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I'm looking at my own life, my own career, and for two decades I did everything possible to avoid my voice, because part of me was really self-censoring.
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Nearby, a man in a red hat stamped with "Make America Great Again", a slogan of U.S. President Donald Trump, used a loudspeaker to accuse Facebook of censoring conservatives.
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After years of complaints that YouTube is unfairly censoring LGBTQ content on its platform, a group of creators has filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google.
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In the segment, he said social media companies were censoring conservatives, echoing a core message of the White House social media summit held the day before, on July 11.
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A few months later, it came out that Delta, the airline she was on, was censoring Carol, cutting out pretty much all of the physical intimacy in the film.
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Republicans from Donald Trump on down have been happy to bash tech companies for the past year, primarily over charges (without real evidence) that tech companies are censoring conservatives.
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The military has declared martial law and is censoring the media networks but Erdogan was on CNN Turkey remotely with a broadcaster holding up her phone facing the cameras.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has pointed out that all of this circles back to the fact that censoring anti-vaccine disinformation won't necessarily solve the problem of its existence.
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They've stated the law and episode in question and complied by taking the most minimalistic action available to them---censoring only that one episode and only within Saudi Arabia.
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As other countries have before it, Papua New Guinea may simply want to better control the spread of information within its own borders by censoring portions of the web.
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For Silicon Valley companies trying to woo their next billion users, censoring their products and placating India's conservative majority appears to make good business sense — at least for now. ●
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Diamond and Silk, a pair of black Trump supporters who have found internet fame, wound up before the House Judiciary Committee in April after accusing Facebook of censoring them.
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For instance, the president won a prize from a U.N. agency for improving communications last year, and yet the opposition accuses him of censoring the web to quell protest.
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Trump's comments came on the same day as a social-media summit at the White House, in which he accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring him and conservative commentators.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing in April to explore whether Facebook and other social-media giants were censoring conservative voices (for which there's no evidence).
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Basically, net neutrality is the idea that everything online should be available to everyone without the meddling of Internet service providers blocking, censoring or favoring some sites over others.
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Maybe it's those four-letter words that your iPhone is constantly censoring to keep your messages PG-13, or perhaps it's the unique name of your dog or company.
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Medvedchuk was accused of censoring the Ukrainian media, and he was the main author of the revised Ukrainian constitution in December 2004, which is full of seemingly intentional inconsistencies.
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Several conservative former Google employees are suing the company, accusing Google of censoring their political speech and firing them, and one has become a talking point on Fox News.
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These include the relatively innocuous claims that the French government was hacking email accounts, that Facebook was censoring videos, or that the media was reporting fake numbers of protesters.
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Many on the right have long said that Twitter and other social media platforms are censoring their speech under the guise of campaigns to fight misinformation and hate speech.
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" The tweet thread ended with: "HHS censoring&blocking Senators from visiting facilities housing separated children -- saying only Senators approved by Chair and Ranking Member of Judiciary Committee are permissible.
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The problem for Facebook is that censoring content will be just one of several concessions that it will need to make for the Chinese government to lift the ban.
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The US games firm hit back at reports suggesting that it was censoring viewers who typed "Free Hong Kong" into the chat box for the "Play Hearthstone" Twitch channel.
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The contentiousness was evident more than an hour into the House hearing, when the right-wing activist Laura Loomer interrupted to accuse social media executives of censoring conservative voices.
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While different from the World War I-era US culture of downplaying, if not suppressing bad news, and the WW1 French/British/German policy of outright censoring bad news.
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Bush expanded on his father's legacy, not only censoring climate scientists and skirting the topic in public, but hiring fossil fuel cronies to shape policy decisions across his administrations.
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The details: Our review of the company's rule books revealed gaps, biases and outright errors, allowing extremist language to flourish in some countries while censoring mainstream speech in others.
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That brings us to … The Chinese government does a fairly thorough job censoring websites and traffic from sources it deems potentially unsavory or damaging to the ruling Communist Party.
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It is a politically delicate moment, as President Trump and others have accused the companies of censoring right-wing opinions and of having too much influence over free speech.
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While many dislike the idea of tech companies censoring political speech, and Infowars leans far right, Mr. Jones regularly spreads lies, conspiracy theories and inflammatory attacks against political enemies.
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And a coach in Activision Blizzard's Overwatch League was told to delete a tweet condemning the company for censoring a competitor over his support of the Hong Kong protests.
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Now, as the IC pushes to cancel the public portion of the worldwide threat briefing, it looks like the administration is effectively censoring what it tells the American people.
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By censoring and punishing the students, the school violated their constitutional free speech rights, and sent the damaging message that supporting Black lives is not welcome in their classrooms.
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Of the two options you consider — censoring his mail and talking to him — only one is consistent with the civic ideals I've just mentioned (not to mention federal law).
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But as discontent spread on social media in the days leading up to Mr. Jia's execution, the government reversed course and began censoring some online discussions about the case.
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Besides arrests, the government has been accused of censoring online dissent by blocking access to independent news websites and drowning out social media debate with an army of trolls.
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And what happens when politicians start demanding more conservative representation on the Oversight Board the same way they've badgered Facebook for supposedly censoring them despite evidence to the contrary?
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"Tencent, with operations in the U.S., has been systematically engaging in censoring public opinions, suppressing dissidents, violating free speech rights of American citizens and hindering American democracy," he wrote.
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The apparent removal of the filtering category occurred amid an ongoing international campaign by LGBTQ rights groups All Out and R3D calling on Netwsweeper to "stop censoring "LGBT+ content.
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Dorsey spent Wednesday fielding questions in the House about how Twitter's efforts to combat dangerous information and misinformation shared on the social media platform is actually censoring conservative voices.
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While many r/conspiracy subscribers agreed with the decision to block CNN articles, others said r/conspiracy was censoring the type of discussion that's typically welcome on the subreddit.
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"Once we start pulling and censoring books for all students as a reactive measure there is no line to which we follow," one librarian told The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
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Back in March of this year, Shalygina accused the government of unduly censoring the artist's contact with the outside world by restricting visitation rights and inbound letters to the prison.
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Earlier this year, Twitter was accused of censoring the hashtag #WhichHillary, which Bernie Sanders supporters and other Hillary Clinton opponents were using to highlight inconsistencies in the Democratic frontrunner's record.
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"We are in 2019 and we are censoring books based on ideas ... ideas are answered with other ideas, not censorship," Salvini told a political rally in the city of Pesaro.
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When Republicans controlled the House, the duo testified before the House Judiciary Committee in 2018, accusing Facebook of censoring their content, though their claims of censorship have been widely debunked.
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Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais (AP)On Wednesday, Donald Trump escalated his war with major U.S. tech companies he and other prominent conservatives have been baselessly accusing of censoring right-wingers.
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Then he misquoted one of my tweets from nearly three years ago, called me a bigot, and praised himself for not censoring me by refusing me access to the event.
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The lawsuit accuses Google of violating the First Amendment, among other offenses, and Gabbard is seeking $50 million plus assurances that Google will refrain from "censoring or restricting" the account.
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The rhetoric has changed; Facebook isn't claiming to be the same defender of free speech and privacy it was after the Snowden leaks, but is instead voluntarily censoring its users.
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But there's a running theme on the Republican side of the aisle: Facebook is censoring conservative content, particularly two pro-Trump vloggers who go by the names Diamond and Silk.
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I was worried they'd end up censoring a bunch of the movie, but it seems like most of the film made it through, with just a couple of blurred butts.
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"Even if we behave and continue censoring ourselves, that's not enough for them, because they know what's going on in our hearts," says one writer, referring to Mr Erdogan's government.
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Shortly after Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo's death was announced, China's biggest social network has started censoring a host of words — and even emoji — typically used in mourning posts.
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But, because Trump has a history of censoring the media -- or at least trying to -- it doesn't sound like Angela is holding her breath for a possible face-to-face.
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" Looking on, counselors Jim and Elizabeth Carroll decide not to interrupt Reid's meltdown as Jim notes, "I don't know what she's saying, but at least she's not censoring herself anymore.
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By censoring content like this you're sending the message that words like "clitoris" are explicit, that they exist for the (male) observer's pleasure and not the person whose it is.
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By asking a random group of online users to confirm if the comment is spam or abusive, Periscope could potentially cut down on community-based attempts at censoring unwelcome viewpoints.
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Bing was the only major foreign search engine accessible from within China's so-called Great Firewall, with Microsoft censoring search results on sensitive topics, in accordance with Chinese government policy.
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It's an interesting attempt by Twitter to avoid censoring political figures like Donald Trump when they violate its rules, while still making sure that it promotes so-called healthy conversations.
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He has also sought to prevent American families and businesses from learning the truth about climate change by trying to gag federally-funded scientists and censoring information on government websites.
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Read more: Trump accuses Twitter and Facebook of censoring him and conservative commentators during bizarre 'social media summit'Alphabet and Facebook declined to immediately comment, and Twitter did not immediately comment.
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And if that means giving a product that assists in censoring Chinese citizens the same name as a boat widely reported to belong to Sergey Brin, then so be it.
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The government, therefore, must err on the side of too little censorship, allowing too much offensive speech rather than censoring views that some people, or even most people, find offensive.
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Sadly, Claiborne Hardware is just one of the countless examples of cases aimed at censoring free speech, and since the advent of the Internet, SLAPPs are only growing in popularity.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in a Monday report that the attacks have been in areas like censoring scientific findings, halting studies, stopping data collection and politicizing grants.
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In June, Twitter was accused of censoring critics of the Chinese government after numerous Chinese-language user accounts were removed days before the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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"I feel VERY unsettled with this election and how the media is censoring information and spinning the American Public to vote Obama," she wrote to Mr. Owens at Mossack Fonseca.
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To me that's, further censoring many marginalized peoples such as women and indigenous voices here in Canada who have to worry about the harassment they'll receive for speaking their minds.
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They also chose to sidestep the fact that as reality shows progress, cast members often become more self-aware and self-censoring once they see how the public perceives them.
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There's been some controversy over how big the role actually is and the fact that some countries are censoring the role, but it's a baby step in the right direction.
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" The company may be backtracking because of the mixed messages that are flooding their Facebook reviews: it's being criticized on both sides for "erecting racist billboards" and "censoring free speech.
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A small number of people shared the news and other articles related to the crackdown by posting images that appeared upside down or were otherwise manipulated to fool censoring software.
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Chinese officials have taken steps to insulate the public from the bad news, including censoring local media, while pledging to cut taxes and make other moves to cheer up businesses.
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Many people have not been inclined to trust the data coming out of China throughout this pandemic, given the Chinese Communist Party's track record of censoring whistleblowers and citizen journalists.
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Ruan said there was a case to be made for moderating bogus health information on social platforms during a crisis, but Tencent doesn't disclose what or how it is censoring.
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The company said that broadcast stations had aired the Trump ad about 1,000 times as required by law and that the Federal Communications Commission didn't want broadcast companies censoring speech.
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The move may help to distance TikTok from ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, and appease concerns that the Chinese government plays a role in censoring content and accessing user data.
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Some writers who once felt bold enough to tackle political and social issues, however obliquely, have been reluctant to publish their work, or have started self-censoring to avoid trouble.
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Earlier this month, The Washington Post suggested that TikTok might be censoring videos of protests in Hong Kong, but ByteDance claims that the leaked documents don't reflect TikTok's current policies.
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"Today, CNN provided further proof that the network earns this mistrust every day by censoring President Trump's message to the American people by blocking our paid campaign ad," he continued.
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READ: Putin is very pissed off at YouTube for not censoring "illegal mass events" Putin is reportedly wary of tech in general, and has called the internet a CIA project.
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The U.S. government should not be in the business of censoring broadcast networks, even ones like al Jazeera that too often seek to mobilize attitudes rather than inform their viewers.
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Had you watched Zuckerberg's congressional hearings last year without any context, you might have thought Facebook was embroiled in a major scandal over censoring two people named Diamond and Silk.
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Last week, at a news conference in which the SABC said it would challenge ICASA's ruling on banning footage of riots, Motsoeneng accused the South African media of censoring "good news".
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Tipper, of "anal vapors" fame, became the spokesperson in the 1980s for the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization responsible for censoring song lyrics and labeling records for explicit content.
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They critique the companies for not doing enough — about harassment, fake news, and hate speech — as well as for doing too much, like arbitrarily censoring political criticism and other vital speech.
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Or, they could sweep the issue under the rug, as the NBA and Blizzard have opted to do, through actions that range from ignoring the conflict to censoring employees' political opinions.
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"The US doesn't want to get into the world where we are censoring the US press for things we view as investigative journalism but the Russians see as interference," he said.
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Although an independent broadcaster did the censoring in this case, that decision was likely passed down from the government, which has released strict guidelines on what content is acceptable to show.
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Facebook has come under fire from other sources, as conservative politicians have repeatedly accused the company of censoring or artificially deflating traffic to conservative pages, although those claims are often tenuous.
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Many tech companies already do business with China and those that choose to operate in the country have to deal with the numerous regulations, which often involves censoring information from residents.
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That's why platforms should examine the parts of their infrastructure that are acting as a megaphone for dangerous content and address that root cause of the problem rather than censoring users.
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The DC Commission on Arts and Humanities believes deeply in the right to freedom of expression and would never seek to violate that right by censoring the work of any grantee.
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That includes Russia, booed at Eurovision for its 2013 law against so-called gay propaganda, and China, where a broadcaster has been barred from airing the show after censoring some songs.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pervasive online abuse and harassment pressure women and girls into censoring themselves on social media and fuel gender-based discrimination and violence, rights groups said on Monday.
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And not all of Europe's right-wing populists praise Facebook quite as fulsomely as Salvini does; Farage has accused the platform of harboring its own liberal bias and of censoring conservatives.
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However, censoring and lashing out at journalists for criticizing where her career has taken her (among other commentary) is a move from Trump's playbook—and that, to me, is just sad.
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President Donald Trump hosted a freewheeling meeting at the White House on Thursday, where he once again accused social-media companies like Twitter and Facebook of censoring him and conservative voices.
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TikTok and parent company ByteDance have been increasingly transparent about content moderation policies — especially after accusations of censoring content for the Chinese government — but details about the algorithm remain mostly unknown.
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Jordan's Ministry of Tourism withdrew the band's license to perform in what seems to be a blatant censoring of Mashrou' Leila's outspoken support of gender equality, gay rights, and religious freedom.
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As a society, we may in fact find that censoring extremism on social platforms helps prevent further recruitment, or saves lives, and we may decide that it's worth the potential cost.
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Fast forward to today, when Google is being falsely accused of censoring speech in the United States, when what it is really doing is mulling a return to censorship in China.
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"The D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities believes deeply in the right to freedom of expression and would never seek to violate that right by censoring the work of any grantee."
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Thousands of novels, including queer romance and explicit romance novels, have been published on Jinjiang, which has been around for nearly two decades, avoiding censorship largely by self-censoring authors first.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Friday sent letters to two tech giants over accusations that they were censoring pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong to protect business interests in China.
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But things aren't looking great: China is censoring access to NBA games, the U.S. is blacklisting certain Chinese companies and U.S. companies fear the impact of tariffs on holiday season sales.
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Earlier this month, the US government opened an investigation into those ties prompted by data privacy concerns and fears that TikTok is censoring content that is critical of the Chinese government.
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In 2003, it was at the center of the SARS outbreak, and the international community slammed it for censoring information, underreporting cases, and failing to stop the spread of the epidemic.
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The head of an effective security service can easily become either a rival for the top spot or a self-censoring information block, neither of which bodes well for the boss.
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After his recent jailing, Robinson became a cause célèbre for many on the British and American right who say his case is an example of the government censoring critics of Islam.
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WeChat, a popular social media messaging app, has been censoring political messages and disabling people's accounts if they voice their support for the movement — even if they're in the United States.
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In 2014 media reports said LinkedIn (now a subsidiary of Microsoft) was censoring posts of a sensitive nature from being seen in China so it could operate in the mainland market.
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On the other hand, Donald Trump has been eagerly shepherding his flock of true believers into a crusade against tech companies he believes are censoring right-wingers, including Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
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Porn filters often cost caretakers to implement and surely cost developers to create, and if they are ultimately useless, or, in some cases, censoring educational content, they should be more rigorously scrutinized.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 21 (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday it has called on a Kentucky prison to stop censoring inmates' mail and removing items it claims promote homosexuality.
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The election has been overshadowed by claims that the military has exerted its influence to distort the race in favor of Khan, by censoring the media, intimidating voters and disrupting opposition campaigns.
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Trump not only needs to point to a law that empowers the state to prohibit Twitter from censoring, it must also take care that enforcing that law does not violate Twitter's rights.
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And then I got deprogrammed by a couple of friends who pointed out to me that I was censoring myself and that I should question this idea of politically correct female representation.
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A ban - then reversal - of LGBT content by Weibo in April, followed by censoring of gay-themed content during the Eurovision Song Contest in May, have fuelled fears of a growing intolerance.
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The new regulation passed this week strengthens the government's position on censoring the internet, drawing Amnesty International to decry that it leaves "no safe place for people to speak freely" in Vietnam.
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It's widely believed that the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite report emboldened other American journalists to stop censoring themselves, possibly changing the course of the Vietnam War — and war reporting — forever.
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YouTube isn't censoring Alex Jones' freedom of speech with guidelines Julia Alexander walks the many, many people complaining about the First Amendment and censorship through the reasons why it doesn't apply here.
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"While we don't believe in censoring content because of an artist's or creator's behavior, we want our editorial decisions — what we choose to program — to reflect our values," said a Spotify spokesperson.
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Algorithms abet racism and Silicon Valley fixes the source of the outrage—censoring Lens, retooling translation software—but not the system engineered for secrecy instead of transparency and apologies instead of accountability.
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In a statement given to The Verge, the company does not actively deny that members of its news operation were censoring stories from right-wing outlets like Breitbart and The Drudge Report.
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By systematically removing even healed and fading scars from searches, hashtags, and promotions, Instagram and Facebook are censoring people with a recognized medical condition, which may qualify as a federally protected disability.
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And how enthusiastic it will be about slapping down disinformation ideologies — given its longstanding position as a free speech champion, and in the face of criticism that it is 'censoring' certain viewpoints.
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Prison officials circulated the revised mail-censoring policy in a statewide memo last week, following an American Civil Liberties Union complaint that said the practice violated inmates' and publishers' free speech rights.
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Turkey's Transport, Maritime and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan said earlier this week the regulation was not aimed at censoring "work being done within our normal moral values", but rather at "preventing wrongs".
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Similarly, when Twitter temporarily partially suspended the account of vocal Harvey Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan, the social media company was said to be unfairly censoring content and many called for a boycott.
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So far, the U.S. and U.K. have resisted passing new laws aimed at stamping out fake news, but Germany, which has a history of censoring hate speech, has adopted the technocratic approach.
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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers accused Blizzard of censoring Blitzchung to protect its business interests in China and sent a letter asking Blizzard's parent company, Activision Blizzard, to reverse the punishment.
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On one side are employees who idealize Facebook's lofty goals of unfettered speech and do not think the company should be in the business of censoring what its users have to say.
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This is related to the claim in the executive order summary that the White House received over 15,000 complaints that social networks are censoring users who post content related to American politics.
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Instead of asking whether we are censoring white editorial visions, we should ask how a white industry might begin to better share the power of editorial decision making with people of color.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has cited Wikipedia edits as evidence that Google is censoring Republicans, and in the process demonstrated he has no idea how Wikipedia or Google works.
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The government has tried to suppress the movement, which has so far been largely limited to academia, the nonprofit sector and the media industry, by censoring posts about sexual harassment and abuse.
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Background: Beijing has long sought to control the flow of information beyond its borders, including by censoring critical content on the Chinese app WeChat and pressuring Western platforms to do the same.
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"If you are censoring scientifically accurate information about best medical practices, which is what we're providing, it means you are leaving information that may not be correct and that may be harmful."
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It seems likely that amending Section 2100 to introduce what scholars call "intermediary liability" for Facebook et al would play out in much the same way: by over-moderating and censoring speech.
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Additions to the blacklist included general references to his death like "Xiaobo + died" in Chinese and in English, and even just his name "Liu Xiaobo," effectively censoring any messages that mentioned him.
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WeChat, however, which is owned by tech giant Tencent, has been found to be censoring messages deemed sensitive by Beijing without notifying its users, according to reports by Toronto-based Citizen Lab.
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Meanwhile, when companies try to block bad content online, they often end up hurting educators and researchers as well — either by censoring their content directly or by taking down material they're studying.
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Adesuyi: The biggest issues faced by people of color in the industry is that when people are rolling back prohibition, there hasn&apost been a focus on censoring of communities most impacted.
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And that has provoked a sharp partisan divide on the policies the big platforms should pursue, with Democrats urging a hard line against fakery while many Republicans warn against censoring online speech.
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Authorities were also censoring potentially sensitive items on social media such as Weibo, China's Twitter-like service, where trade-related items have been mostly kept off the list of top trending topics.
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While I get her vibe that censoring religion is probably unwise, you've got to sympathize with the school—I'd rather show kids The Lives of Others than have to tell them that.
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Grindr could end up over-censoring content or surveilling its platform more broadly, and "might end up distorting the marketplace in a way that ends up making us all worse off," Goldman said.
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In at least one video, she lashed out against YouTube, claiming the video platform was censoring her videos and placing filters on the content to prevent it from being seen by more viewers.
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With the benefit of his new executive action, he told assembled clergy, "you're now in a position to say what you want to say" with no federal official "censoring sermons or targeting pastors".
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To remove links to a news outlet's story is unprecedented territory for Twitter and one that is likely to dredge up a host of questions about Twitter's role in promoting and censoring information.
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In hearings on Capitol Hill in April 2018, Republican lawmakers blasted Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the platform of having a liberal bias against and for censoring conservative Facebook pages.
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President-elect Donald Trump has come after Facebook for its supposed "censoring" of conservative news, and the social network has come under fire in the last week for its handling of fake news.
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For example, Josh Hawley, a Republican Senator from Missouri, is trying to pass the Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act that would prohibit social media platforms with millions of users from "censoring" conservatives.
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Amazon Prime Video launched in India in December 883, and was immediately blasted by angry Indian customers on Twitter for proactively censoring many TV shows and movies, including its own productions like Transparent.
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The video — which first appeared on Miaopai, China's version of Vine — was deleted off various platforms, and Weibo users who found their videos deleted are blaming the social network for censoring their posts.
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McDonald's joins other chains including Panera Bread and Chick-Fil-A in censoring its public Wi-Fi networks, but one of EiE's other big targets — Starbucks — has yet to take the same steps.
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Soothe has users choose which general topics they'd like to have filtered and then the extension combs through sites to blur out potentially triggering comments or content, without censoring things like news stories.
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Social media platforms have repeatedly denied that they are censoring conservatives, and there is little evidence to back up Republicans' claims of being shadow banned, or having their posts hidden from other users.
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US Senator Marco Rubio is calling on the federal government to investigate the popular video-sharing app TikTok based on "ample and growing evidence" that it's censoring content at the request of China.
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In 2017, Uzbekistan found itself a target of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, accused of limiting the rights of all religious groups, attempting to control religious activity and censoring religious materials.
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Shutting him down is not a matter of censoring opinions; it's a matter of being responsible in how we elevate or endorse the cult of celebrity in situations that further espouse toxic lies.
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I think, for example, if you take their mission seriously, which is to serve all humans and certainly all Americans, they really shouldn't be censoring content unless libelous, obscene, that's about it. Pornographic.
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This is not about censoring the internet, it is about making the most popular internet platforms safer, by ensuring there is accountability and transparency over the decisions these private companies are already taking.
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" Mr. Clark, 57, said he had already been angry with Facebook for censoring some of his posts, which he said expressed his staunchly conservative views but were "never evil or putting anybody down.
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New York, which both dealt with citywide censorship ordinances and the marketing of content deemed obscene — prompted the film industry to take some action in the waning days of the self-censoring code.
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The you-wear-it/you're-asking-for-it implication of the letter, not to mention the sheer idea of censoring clothing, set off the predictable firestorm of protest, both on campus and off.
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"If Senator Warren wants to say things she knows to be untrue, we believe Facebook should not be in the position of censoring that speech," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement Saturday.
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" In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said that "If Senator Warren wants to say things she knows to be untrue, we believe Facebook should not be in the position of censoring that speech.
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Why it matters: Isakowitz takes the job as Google is facing increasing regulatory pressure over its market dominance, its handing of misinformation, privacy and accusations of censoring conservative viewpoints, Axios' Kim Hart emails.
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The President's latest statements reflect a broader view among conservatives that digital platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are censoring them and as calls for regulation against those platforms heats up in government.
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In the US, the Federal Communications Commission has extensive guidelines for television and radio broadcasters around political advertising that bar broadcasters from censoring ads or from taking down ones that make false claims.
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US lawmakers called last month for a national security probe into TikTok, expressing concern that the Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content, and raising questions about how it stores personal data.
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Censoring conversation among Cuba's artists is a critical function of the Comite de la Defensa de la Revolucion, a citizen's network enlisted by the government to police potential dissident activities or social upheavals.
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The fact that it wasn't trending in social the way Trump supporters would like amounted to censorship, a familiar charge to Facebook, whose human editors admitted to censoring conservative news earlier this year.
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Their service is more akin to fast-forwarding through parts of a movie, but with the added benefit that nobody in the family has to watch the film first to decide what needs censoring.
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Still, Iranian artists must constantly navigate and test the limits of their artistic freedoms, often self-censoring so as not to upset the powerful Religious Establishment for fear of arrest, flogging, and possible imprisonment.
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Last summer when controversy erupted about Facebook allegedly censoring conservative news viewpoints from its Trending Topics module, Facebook's response was to fire the human editors overseeing the project and increase its reliance algorithms instead.
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Maryam is one of the few opposition figures to openly criticize Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan's powerful military, accusing them in recent weeks of censoring rallies and press conferences held by her party.
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Maryam is one of the few opposition figures to openly criticize Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan's powerful military, accusing them in recent weeks of censoring rallies and news conferences held by her party.
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This was the umpteenth time the Silicon Valley executive was accused of fostering an online culture and platform that has allowed abusive and violent language to thrive, while simultaneously and arbitrarily censoring other speech.
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When Google first pulled away from China in 2010, it cited a breach of Gmail accounts that targeted Chinese dissidents as one of the primary reasons it no longer felt comfortable censoring search results.
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The Senate voted 52-47 to rescind the FCC's incongruously titled "Restoring Internet Freedom Order," which seeks to abolish rules passed in 20153 that prohibit internet service providers from throttling or censoring online content.
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On Wednesday, Riot Games was forced to make its first statement on Hong Kong and censorship after it was accused of censoring the special administrative region's name from its League of Legends Worlds broadcasts.
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"My belief is that in a democracy I don't think that we want private companies censoring politicians in the news," Zuckerberg said in an interview with Fox News' Dana Perino, set to air Friday.
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But people inside the quarantine zone who spoke to VICE News and leaked details in online accounts reveal an atmosphere of fear and anger at the government's delayed response and censoring of critical voices.
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The platform's automated tools — which operate at unprecedented scale for a social network — are well known for at times censoring legitimate posts and flagging benign content while failing to detect harassment and hate speech.
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In April, Mark Zuckerberg was summoned to appear before Congress to discuss the Cambridge Analytica data leak, and he was grilled by Republican legislators about whether Facebook was censoring conservative viewpoints on the platform.
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The company, which has 100 million users in China, later said it was recruiting an additional 2,000 censors to add to its team of "content auditors", whose main job is reviewing and censoring content.
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On June 26, 1997, after more than a year of heated debate about the censoring of the internet, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act for violating the First Amendment.
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Though many executives will quickly renounce much of InfoWars content, they've been reluctant to impose outright bans, as they've already faced backlash from conservatives who believe the Bay Area companies are disproportionately censoring them.
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Of additional note is that Trump's comments came on the same day as a social-media summit at the White House, in which he accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring him and conservative commentators.
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Concerns that Facebook is censoring content made by right-wing figures have bubbled up in congressional hearings and been floated among many users on the right, though there is little evidence supporting recent claims.
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While Democrats have repeatedly expressed outrage over Facebook's failure to stem the flow of disinformation on its site, Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have long claimed that social-media companies are censoring conservative speech.
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Sisi, who President Donald Trump called his "favorite dictator" at the G7 summit in August, has cracked down brutally on dissent while in power, shutting down hundreds of websites, censoring media, and imprisoning thousands.
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Olivia Wilde and "Booksmart" actresses Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein reacted in shock on the red carpet of the Academy's Governors Awards when asked about an airline recently censoring their film's lesbian sex scene.
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Even if you could study it, the field is vigilantly watched by the regime, and the government exercises a strong control over film production, censoring whatever is considered unfit for the people of Egypt.
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On February 8, for example, all the off-topic threads had a clear, far-right bent, claiming that Facebook is censoring crimes committed by immigrants, complaining about college professors who criticize Trump, and more.
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Just as I was editing and censoring my thoughts to conform with what was appropriate for the courtroom, I was also reducing myself to fit into a role I was not born to play.
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The short-form video app has thousands of moderators in China and the US.The platform has been accused of going too far in removing sensitive content, allegedly censoring controversial posts that could anger China.
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Read: In "Hitler's First Hundred Days," the historian Peter Fritzsche shows how Hitler and his conservative allies crushed what remained of the Weimar Republic, in part by censoring the press and suspending civil liberties.
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Germany's Nazi past, America's Confederate monuments, Turkey's refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide, China's censoring talk about the Tiananmen massacre and many other examples bear witness to the difficulty of confronting a troubling history.
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He added that Europe's rules erode what had been a shared belief among the United States and other Western democracies to avoid censoring social media posts, YouTube videos, discussion forums and other internet content.
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What's less clear, though, is which ones actually moved the needle, and which ones — like censoring coronavirus posts on the popular social messaging app WeChat — may have inadvertently caused more cases to go undetected.
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Mounted on the wall above them were three TVs, tuned to Fox News, CNN, and CNN en Español, showing, respectively, segments on "censoring conservatives," Robert Mueller, and the latest statements made by Juan Guaidó.
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These ties to China have earned TikTok intense scrutiny from US lawmakers, who have major concerns over the risks it poses to cybersecurity and user privacy, as well as its influence over censoring content.
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But they are taking on new life amid concerns that technology behemoths are directly — or indirectly — censoring controversial subjects in their response to concerns over so-called fake news and the 2016 presidential election.
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A new bill proposed in Missouri aims to prevent inappropriate sexual content from getting into the hands of kids, but critics are warning it amounts to censoring and could land public librarians in jail.
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Ongoing protests in Hong Kong are a new source of tension for American companies including Google and Apple, which critics have slammed for censoring apps that are perceived to be challenging the Chinese government.
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"The co-option of social media technologies provides authoritarian regimes with a powerful tool to shape public discussions and spread propaganda online, while simultaneously surveilling, censoring, and restricting digital public spaces," the researchers write.
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That military campaign has been likened by some candidates to a soft coup, and has included sidelining candidates who are out of the military's favor, censoring major news outlets and persecuting peaceful political movements.
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He tells me he was nervous about performing and censoring himself so to not say any curse words, but he still was able to recite a few bars off the top of the dome.
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Supposedly, he "secretly" had a team use an algorithmic tool that would censor abusive messages directed at President Obama during a question-and-answer session, with a media team also allegedly manually censoring tweets.
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From the outside, it's clear that Turkey's arts and culture are not exempt from the well-oiled machine of coercion that's speeding the country toward Erdoğan's ultimate goal of engineering a docile, self-censoring society.
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"I feel like when you classify a conversation about any marginalized person or community as political it does a huge disservice and it's a way of censoring and silencing an already silenced population," Snyder said.
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"Even after Instagram took the picture down, he had no remorse, no regard, and he posted another photo and complained that IG was censoring him," she said of the hip-hop mogul, born Curtis Jackson.
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In the wake of his Li's death, Chinese citizens have accused authorities of trying to control public opinion online by censoring social media posts critical of the Chinese government and how they've handled the coronavirus.
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His longstanding courtship of conservatives seems to be paying off; instead of griping that Facebook is censoring right-wing speech, they attack Democrats criticizing Libra as regulation-happy enemies of innovation, if not outright Socialists.
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"While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans — and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans — the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights," Sens.
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The hallways of the Musei Capitolini (screenshot via CorriereTV) In January, officials in Italy faced a censorship fiasco after censoring famous nude statues in advance of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to the Musei Capitolini.
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In subsequent years, developers found ways around these restrictions by censoring their material, often with additional downloadable patches that removed the censorship after the game was installed — though Steam later banned this practice as well.
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Many staunch Infowars critics condemned the tech giants' decision, noting that censoring him could result in further actions against people who aren't accepted by the mainstream media – which appears to be exactly what Murphy wants.
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They say that since the final version was approved the government has used its monopoly over the media and most public space to campaign for ratification while censoring other points of view and harassing dissidents.
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Media Research Center President Brent Bozell echoed many pundits, stating that, while Jones is not to be taken seriously, censoring him could result in further actions against people that aren't accepted by the mainstream media.
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Last week, Hyperallergic reported that Poland's National Museum in Warsaw was the subject of widespread protests after word spread that the institution was censoring feminist art at the behest of the country's Ministry of Culture.
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"I mean obviously I don't agree with the sexist comments, but there is not much I can do about them, I don't like censoring people's opinions, regardless if I like them or not," they said.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a letter to the PM of Norway that Facebook had learned its lesson in regards to the controversy it faced last week in censoring a Pulitzer Prize winning photo.
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Overly broad and imprecise definitions of terrorism may lead to "discriminatory implementation, over-censoring and arbitrary denial of access to and use of Facebook's services", wrote Ní Aoláin, a U.N. Human Rights Council independent expert.
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The collector told ARTnews he sent a letter to the museum as a reaction to their censoring of its current Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition, Pictures, which resulted in the resignation of the museum's director, João Ribas.
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But many in the tech industry say the administration is pushing conflicting ideas, urging social media companies to pay more attention to what users say online, while also alleging that they are unfairly censoring conservatives.
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The majority leader, who is close to Trump, has tweeted over a dozen times last month to "stop the bias," referring to what critics say is a pattern of censoring conservative voices on social media.
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The north-eastern Spanish region of Catalonia is celebrating an unofficial referendum for its independence on October 1, and the Spanish government is doing anything in its power to stop it—including censoring the internet.
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As long as it's okay for campaigns featuring scantily clad straight-size models to get airtime, there isn't any sound logic behind censoring equally body-flaunting campaigns when the bodies in question are fuller-figured.
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In recent months, President Trump and other Republican leaders have accused social media companies of censoring conservative speech on their platforms (without any evidence) and threatened to take action against them for allegedly doing so.
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An appeals court in Paris upheld a previous ruling that the French teacher Frederic Durand-Baissas can sue Facebook in France for censoring his post of Gustave Courbet's painting "L'Origine du Monde" (1866) in 2011.
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Instagram's restrictive content policies regarding nudity and sexuality have affected sex workers, queers, artists, and even journalists, censoring sexy pics and jokey dildo selfies alike in the name of building a profitable, child-friendly platform.
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The irony of censoring tweets about Gunter's book is that the book seeks to dispel myths that stem directly from the Goop-y vaginal mythmaking that capitalizes on a lack of frank conversation about vaginas.
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YouTube is hiring managers to work specifically with progressive political publishers and conservative political publishers as the company faces accusations of censoring right-wing political content amid a crackdown on supremacist content and conspiracy theories.
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I used to be very good at censoring myself, but I've said so many ridiculous things over the years, so I'm always curious when I'm promoting these movies how many times I can mess up.
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"We're glad the court blocked the state's blatantly unconstitutional effort to stifle competition by censoring speech," said Brian Hauss, staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in a statement released to CNN.
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"While I am afraid of being deactivated due to speaking out, I am hopeful Shipt will hear the Shipt shopper community's voice as a collective whole, rather than censoring and ignoring dissenting concerns," he says.
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And Gabbard, a member of Congress from Hawaii, has said that, as president, she would "absolutely" consider breaking up Twitter, too, along with other tech companies that she deems "monopolies" that are "censoring" critical voices.
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" Trump said that no one should be "censoring sermons or targeting pastors," and that now, with the provision of the executive order, religious leaders were in a position to "say what they wanted to say.
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He says cops told him she'd been found and everything was "under control" -- despite Ismail claiming he'd initially told authorities she might go to YouTube because she "hated" the company for allegedly censoring her videos.
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And because of this algorithm that mysteriously they have developed that nobody knows what it is, it is doing that censoring and they are in denial that they are in fact trying to censor conservative content.
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SB 822 would prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from censoring or throttling website and services online, while also prohibiting the providers from charging businesses exorbitant fees their ensure content is delivered to customers at higher speeds.
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The Cyberspace Administration of China says the new measures, which include the monitoring of private chat apps and censoring tools to block viewing of overseas websites, are designed to maintain social order and protect socialist values.
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So if Twitter was deliberately censoring bisexual content, that'd be a big deal—but it's not great if the disappearance of the search results was unintentional or the result of some kind of automated censor, either.
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Conservatives called the hearing to accuse Big Tech of censoring conservative voices, an oft-repeated claim on the right echoed by luminaries like RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's re-election campaign manager.
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Even as Randazza argues his clients' cases on First Amendment grounds, he may well be harming the popular sentiment around free speech that is one of the only bulwarks against platforms unilaterally censoring all they want.
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When men take the lead on the discussion, these facts often go unheard — instead, the conversation is focused on the effect on American elections or the risks of censoring hate speech: topics that serve the privileged.
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Now let's see what Infowars says about censoring people on its own website: You will not post anything libelous, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise illegal.
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But after a sophisticated phishing attack to gain access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, Google decided to stop censoring results, even though it cost the company access to the lucrative Chinese market.
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In addition to harming consensual sex workers while pushing sex trafficking further underground, the legislation's broad language means that sites now seem to be over-censoring their users to ensure they're not liable for anything problematic.
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They said the CEO "has dramatically reduced his volume of tweets generally and regarding Tesla in particular," and has been diligent — even self-censoring — in his efforts to comply with the terms of that earlier settlement.
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But critics of the Trump administration have nonetheless criticized the agency for what they see as attempts to undermine science at the EPA, including downplaying the harms from climate change and air pollution and censoring scientists.
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But critics of the Trump administration have nonetheless criticized the agency for what they see as attempts to undermine science at the EPA, including downplaying the harms from climate change and air pollution, and censoring scientists.
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It is high past time for Congress to hear the concerns of their constituents and step up to protect us against the dangers that could come from allowing these companies to continue blocking and censoring content.
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READ: Scientists say the Trump administration is censoring their climate research The area affected by the melt this year is as big as any since 133, when more than 90% of the ice area was affected.
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Mr. Zuckerberg spouts disciplined, molded public-relations pablum about how Facebook stands for openness and free speech, all the while censoring content to satisfy governments such as Pakistan, India and Turkey that have heavy speech restrictions.
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"Facebook has repeatedly punished a fast-growing news website for its conservative views on immigration and other topics — suspending its moderators, censoring content, and threatening to close the site down," Brietbart alleged in a Monday story.
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Pakistan's opposition and European observers said the military created an unlevel playing field before the polls, censoring the news media and pressuring candidates to secure a victory for Imran Khan, who became prime minister in August.
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" She has also bashed the police, called for censoring a fellow journalist, and believed the 2014 University of Virginia rape hoax, in the course of which she lashed out at "white men" and "white college boys.
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He has not complained about Facebook censoring Farrakhan, and over the weekend, he asked why "Radical Left Wing Media" like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC are allowed on Facebook and Twitter.
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Tamar Zandberg, leader of the left-wing Meretz party, which sits in the opposition, decried what she called Mr. Netanyahu's "obsession" with pursuing and censoring ideological opponents all the way to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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In recent weeks, as the coronavirus spread through China, the government has cracked down on domestic and foreign reporting, muzzling medical professionals and censoring and removing reports and commentaries online that have challenged the official narrative.
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John Oliver slammed Disney-owned Hotstar on Sunday for censoring his show, "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver", in India saying the local streaming service had edited at least three of his episodes in recent months.
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As it tightens restrictions on people entering the country, the Chinese government also is leading a sweeping campaign to purge the public sphere of dissent, censoring news reports, harassing citizen journalists and shutting down news sites.
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In the most recent episode of the show, Oliver called out Hotstar for censoring his show and said the streaming service had also edited out a few jokes about Disney from some of his recent episodes.
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Most repressive countries interested in censoring information and the media try to lock down the internet, but for the past two years, Nicaragua has had an old-school solution: just remove the tools of the trade.
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"While Sudan has a long history of systematically censoring print and broadcast media, online media has been relatively untouched despite its exponential growth... in recent years," said Mai Truong of U.S.-based advocacy group Freedom House.
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" However, Fox News rejected a request from the Biden campaign not to air the ad on Friday, saying the network is "not in the business of censoring ads from candidates on either side of the aisle.
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Extremist content is the latest challenge facing TikTok, which made headlines last week after lawmakers and competitors accused the app, which is owned by Beijing-based Bytedance, of censoring content on behalf of the Chinese government.
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As a result, "we will revoke [the film's license]," Ta Quang Dong, deputy minister of culture, sports and tourism, which is tasked with licensing and censoring international films, told the Thanh Nien newspaper, according to Reuters.
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The popular Chinese social media app that has become a global sensation is now under scrutiny for censoring an American activist's criticism of the Chinese government as well as investigations into its handling of user data.
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After several popular LGBTQ vloggers like Rowan Ellis and Tyler Oakley said YouTube was incorrectly censoring their videos using its "Restricted Mode," the site has addressed the error and finally offered an apology to those impacted.
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It seems clear TikTok is censoring information related to the Hong Kong protests, but at the same time, even if it's not happening that much now, it's really only a matter of time before it does.
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When YouTube announced it was going to punish Crowder over his treatment of the journalist, Carlos Maza, Republican lawmakers battered the platform from the other side, alleging that YouTube was censoring a popular right-wing figure.
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But in recent decades, the right's elites have despaired of censoring pornography, acquiesced to the spread of casino gambling, made peace with the creeping commercialization of marijuana, and accepted the internet's conquest of childhood and adolescence.
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"While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans — and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans — the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights," Cruz and Sens.
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"I think there should be a critical revision to how we see this work, but rather than censoring, create more speech, give people an opportunity to see these anew and through the eyes of 2016," Mintcheva said.
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Similarly, Twitter found itself in the position of censoring links to a national news organization after the publication posted the private phone number of White House adviser, Stephen Miller — the reported architect of the zero tolerance policy.
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"While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans -- and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans -- the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights," Cruz and Sens.
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But as it stands, the filter does a very poor job of keeping out actual inappropriate content, such as the neo-Nazi news site the Daily Stormer, and it's improperly censoring certain websites, such as Teen Vogue.
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"Censoring the internet was never going to help any victims, it only makes them less likely to be seen," Liara Roux, a sex worker and independent porn producer, told me in Twitter messages following the Cloudflare news.
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Microsoft and Github workers today released an open letter, making plain their intention to "stand in solidarity with tech workers in China" and resist potential attempts by the Chinese government to pressure Microsoft into censoring 996.icu.
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BuzzFeed News' Charlie Warzel finds that employees at Facebook feel the company doesn't deserve to be the focus of the deepening crisis of Russian election meddling online, especially after critics previously hit the company for censoring content.
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The recent censoring of Backpage, a move made by the company itself to protest what it views as an attack on its right to free speech, has driven sex work further underground, making it even more dangerous.
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According to the report, which was published on Wednesday, a Canadian internet company called Netsweeper is censoring LGBTQ web content and other content protected under international conventions on behalf of numerous regimes with atrocious human rights records.
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Khan denies censoring the media, describing such accusations as "a joke" during a visit to Washington this month, but relations with the press and broadcasters have become increasingly strained since he took office nearly a year ago.
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Hawley's Section 230 bill, responding to accusations from conservatives that Big Tech is biased against right-wing perspectives, would require the FTC to audit the country's largest tech companies to ensure they are not censoring political perspectives.
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As recently as last month McCarthy was running ads on Facebook inviting supporters to join him "and President Trump in defending our conservative voice against social media censoring," according to the platform's public database of political ads.
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Last month, Blizzard's parent company, Activision Blizzard, received a letter from a bipartisan group of US lawmakers accusing Blizzard of censoring the professional gamer Ng Wai Chung, known as "Blitzchung," to protect its business interests in China.
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But according to a recent study released by the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary research group based at the University of Toronto, WeChat has been aggressively censoring content related to the coronavirus outbreak since at least late December.
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The App Store is the only way for most users to install software on iPhones, and it has become a magnet for criticism that Apple enables countries to remove apps they don't like, effectively censoring free expression.
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But make no mistake, it is this desire to steer clear of a protracted, nasty and troll-filled debate about censoring world leaders (specifically, Mr. Trump) and not a devotion to public interest that motivates the platforms.
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Republicans have not taken issue with Facebook&aposs position; however multiple GOP leaders have accused Facebook and other tech companies of acting with a political bias and censoring conservative voices with their moderation practices in the past.
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It became quickly apparent on Tuesday that the Disney-owned platform, which has a knack of censoring numerous sensitive subjects, including sketches that make fun of its sponsors, was not going to risk upsetting the ruling party.
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Chuck Schumer of New York successfully requested an Army investigation into the app&aposs handling of user data in November, and numerous reports have emerged of the platform censoring content it thinks could anger the Chinese government.
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The Facebook-owned social media platform is one of the few Western social media companies still operating in Iran -- and journalists and free speech advocates are warning it could be going too far in censoring some posts.
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On the left, there are critics who say these firms are not doing enough to take down harmful and offensive content, while on the right there are some who think internet firms are routinely censoring conservative posts.
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While censoring content from Trump is nothing new, shutting out Bolton because he has a different viewpoint could lead other officials to keep their complete analyses and opinions from the President for fear of being similarly sidelined.
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"This new instance of censorship makes satire unnecessary—censoring the word 'cow' really is a load of bull," Karuna Nundy, a Delhi-based lawyer who has defended freedom of speech cases at India's Supreme Court, told me.
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Silicon Valley's in the hot seat on Capitol Hill again this week as executives from Facebook and Twitter gear up to face questions about election interference, censoring conservative voices, regulation of Big Tech, and Donald Trump's tweets.
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