Tag: censorship
A pink dinosaur is shaking up the Chinese internet
As of: October 13, 2023 4:47 p.m The Chinese Internet is subject to strict censorship and critical posts are quickly deleted. But a little pink dinosaur is now giving people…
Controversial exhibition in Sweden: Sadaf Ahmadi’s works on the protests in Iran – Culture
It was a shock, she says. Suddenly Sadaf Ahmadi felt here in Sweden like he did back in Tehran. “Like when the mullahs explained to me that my films could…
Unity, immigration, censorship… How the Republicans intend to stay in the game
We had left them in the heart of summer, wrung out by a year of tumults. After a few days of vacation, Les Républicains meet this Sunday in Levens, in…
Censorship Laws in China: The Tame Punk Rock Scene of Shanghai
Status: 08/22/2023 8:13 p.m Setlists that have to be approved down to the individual line of a song before each performance, metaphors and allusions instead of criticism: Shanghai’s punk rock…
Has “Barbie” slipped through Chinese censorship?
Status: 08/20/2023 3:32 p.m Only a limited number of foreign films are allowed to be shown in Chinese cinemas each year. Ironically, Barbie is one of them. Online networks are…
Malinda Lo: “Like reading about homosexuality makes you homosexual” – Culture
Malinda Lo sits under a big old linden tree in Munich. The US novelist is here at the International Youth Library’s White Ravens Festival to present her young adult historical…
"Oppenheimer" in India: Anger about sex scene in "Oppenheimer"
In India, politicians are protesting against the film. The main actress’s breasts will be covered with a digital dress in some countries. source site
Film: Censorship in Pakistan: “Barbie” partially banned
Movie Censorship in Pakistan: “Barbie” partially banned Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie at the ‘Barbie’ premiere in London. photo © Ian West/PA Wire/dpa The province of Punjab has 127 million…
Are we heading towards “censorship” of social networks on August 25?
The words of Thierry Breton have made the rounds of social networks. In an interview on FranceInfo on July 10, the European commissioner for the internal market and digital sent…
“Dystopian function”: France wants to force browsers to block websites
France is on the verge of mandating a “dystopian feature” for browsers. That’s what Mozilla thinks, and in a blog entry it criticizes legislative plans that stipulate that browsers should…