But we had censors, literal censors – human people who told us, "you can't say that"—on Saturday Night Live at NBC.
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In-house censors work separately from government censors, who operate within state media and local propaganda units and liaise with private companies.
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Tencent censors content based on a mysterious collection of keywords, Ruan said, but points out that during times of heightened tensions, the censors widen their restrictions.
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"They (the censors) are too sensitive... they should be "They (the censors) are too sensitive... they should be open-minded, because it's just a movie, just a story.
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SO, AS WE TALKED YESTERDAY, IF YOU WANT TO IMBED CENSORS IN ASPHALT FOR ROAD – FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, YOU CAN DESIGN THE NETWORK TO GIVE TEN YEAR BATTERY LIFE FOR THOSE CENSORS.
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It's a metaphor for racism that got past the censors.
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Censors rapidly shut down their criticisms of Mr Xi's gesture.
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Its censors have sharply restricted the showing of Indian films.
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Under a more reactionary government, censors might have banned Telegram.
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Google has pushed back against claims it censors conservative speech.
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Censors scrubbed any allusion to it within the Great Firewall.
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That report was soon deleted, likely pulled by state censors.
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Such images were duly banned by China's censors this week.
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Fleeing the censors at home, journalists found freedom in exile.
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Internet censors have also blocked searches for Liang Xiangyi's name.
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Audiences gasped, and the censors cut away, but who cared?
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It's true that we don't want them to become censors.
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Why do leftists always seem to escape big techs censors?
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The company declined to say how many censors it employed.
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And censors have also quashed the #MeToo movement in China.
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Mr Pu's prosecutors also provided evidence of the censors' weaknesses.
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Pompidou Shanghai has already had its first encounter with censors.
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One of his plays is under review by the censors.
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Censors initially appeared to block some posts about the case.
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Mainstream country's conservative fans can still operate like unofficial censors.
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The comments on such sites appear only after passing censors.
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No — it's what television could be, without sponsors and censors.
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But censors rejected the nearly finished book with no explanation.
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The news media is under the constant watch of censors.
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In Israel, military censors restrict public reports of the airstrikes.
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Predictably, government censors rushed to block criticism of the decision.
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Digital censors detect the special green bags for organic waste.
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The fate of his memoir is up to government censors.
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" Often, he added, "the censors lost and the song won.
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It is a battle between the artists and the censors.
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Winnie the Pooh's likeness is banned in by China's censors.
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The government has deployed censors to limit the movement's spread.
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Television censors had to keep a close eye on the show.
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This incident was representative n of Serling's contentious relationship with censors.
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The #GoldenGlobes2018 censors are jumping the gun just a bit tonight.
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That app was eventually shut down by Chinese censors in 2018.
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The government now censors the angriest online posts about nationalist topics.
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Since then, the Communist Party's censors and goons have stifled debate.
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The censors' shifting priorities are a challenge for Chinese tech firms.
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Unsurprisingly, censors clamped down further during the 15 years of conflict.
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Most of the censors said they were doing a public service.
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In 2013 censors permitted websites and newspapers to discuss LGBT issues.
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Then the company had its own run-ins with the censors.
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Hollywood, for example, has adjusted plots to appease censors in China.
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You know you've hit something special when the censors come running.
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Well, because I didn't think I'd get it past the censors.
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The clip went viral before being scrubbed by China's internet censors.
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They see only the news that Beijing's censors let them see.
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So, now Chinese censors are dictating what appears in America. Right.
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Almost immediately, Chinese government censors stepped in to quash the movement.
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The mixing and layering was meant to avert detection by censors.
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No longer could censors or editors block your view of reality.
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Posts demanding freedom of speech appeared, then were deleted by censors.
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But that tactic doesn't always avoid the wrath of the censors.
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And lawmakers are worried that TikTok censors content on its platform.
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Instagram censors almost all photographs of female nipples on its platform.
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"Rather than homophobic, I think (China's censors) are sexphobic," he said.
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Like all movies, "Titanic," for example, was examined by the censors.
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This is just a heads up for our censors to get ready!
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This isn't even the first time Apple has complied with Chinese censors.
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He felt sure there were parts that the Chinese censors had removed.
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Not every video game company has been eager to appease Chinese censors.
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Technically, the fact that China censors search results is a state secret.
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The government closely monitors media and censors many websites and online platforms.
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Chinese censors quickly banned mentions of the eye-roll on social platforms.
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The censors don't yet appear to have caught up with Mr Han.
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Exactly when censors started scrubbing out the song in China is unclear.
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Despite government censors' efforts, millions of Chinese are sharing her story online.
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Chinese internet censors also scour social media to delete content deemed sensitive.
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And sophisticated government censors have become quite good at blocking specific apps.
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Censors tried to delete all discussion of them from the Chinese internet.
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VPNs are used to access content that falls foul of the censors.
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So far this year, just one issue has passed the censors unscathed.
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How did Mr. Mansky get these scenes through the censors' daily edit?
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He censors the press in his country and has closed a university.
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As quickly as censors took down the footage, it was uploaded again.
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What the censors didn't realize was how exciting that trauma could be.
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South Korea filters, censors and blocks news agencies belonging to North Korea.
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As such, has made various concessions to Chinese censors and intelligence agencies.
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The first motivation of the censors is protection of the Communist Party.
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Censors are targeting self-help gurus, novelists, sportswriters and other independent writers.
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Yet the culprit was not Chinese censors but Twitter's own overactive filters.
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In other words, it's a network update that censors one person's wallet.
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For example, he said, her government censors words instead of entire paragraphs.
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The thinking is to make the system robust against hackers or censors.
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Apple censors apps in China when the Communist Party tells it to.
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Censors regularly take down images and posts from social media as well.
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Government censors redacted names, dates, locations, and other sensitive or embarrassing information.
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Many described having internal censors that prevented them from taking professional risks.
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The film was too much for Ceausescu's censors; it was immediately banned.
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The internet's enemies were government or corporate censors and other stodgy gatekeepers.
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"Dear internet censors, you should let Wuhan people speak," she wrote recently.
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He recognizes that his style would not pass muster with Chinese censors.
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If Mark Zuckerberg censors what we see on Facebook, it's a scandal.
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Yet this period saw censors ban material deemed religiously and politically sensitive and works deemed "immoral" even more than works linked to Israel, which suggests that at times of heightened political tensions censors crack down across the board.
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Anxious officials arrested ringleaders; censors scrubbed mentions of the protest from the internet.
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Google isn't the only company apparently willing to work with the country's censors.
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Government censors may have come to regret giving the film the green light.
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It's a bid to preserve the information in case Beijing's censors delete it.
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Breitbart, the home of the alt-right, even censors "fuck" in their headlines.
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Foreign studios pre-emptively pander to China's censors, avoiding taboo subjects like Tibet.
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During the late 1990s, censors sought to stamp out rock and metal music.
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Censoring: "Independent Russian Pollster Self-Censors Ahead of Elections" from The Moscow Times.
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China's online censors – dubbed the Great Firewall – already heavily restrict news and information.
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Last year, the country's censors took 120 songs deemed "harmful" to society offline.
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How did FX manage to slip the term past censors and the like?
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Such efforts by the censors are relatively easy for internet users to detect.
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China's thousands of censors have ramped up efforts to block subversive online messages.
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Nunes's suit alleges that the platform censors conservative voices by "shadow-banning" them.
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NBC acknowledged that North Korean censors organized the itinerary and controlled the visuals.
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The misleadingly named SESTA would essentially make private companies deputized censors and snitches.
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The government is trying to make ordinary web users act as censors themselves.
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Tellingly, censors have delayed release of one of the other anti-corruption shows.
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Even Iran's master filmmaker had to work his way around the country's censors.
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Censors declared that calling blockchain a scam on social media was henceforth forbidden.
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Although scenes were sometimes cut by the censors, the series was widely watched.
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It has different platforms, ideals and business strategies, all tended carefully by censors.
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But the Chinese censors had fair warning of what might happen, he said.
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During the First World War, Hollywood production companies began to challenge the censors.
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China's internet censors, ostensibly fearing social unrest, have sought to curtail such criticism.
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Many people in China use VPNs to try to evade government censors online.
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The photos were reviewed by censors in either the United States or Britain.
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Walt Disney Studios had refused to cut the scene to appease Malaysian censors.
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It also routinely censors politically sensitive information across Chinese social media and websites.
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Chinese censors have deleted coverage of the case in mainland Chinese online media.
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She has dealt with mansplaining colleagues, Iranian censors and the country's security forces.
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On Monday, online censors continued to delete reports and images from the protests.
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Its release indicates Chinese censors are evolving when it comes to themes like homosexuality.
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A redacted text can have the opposite effect than the censors want it to.
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Internet censors have been deleting any doubts that netizens have been raising about Xiongan.
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His post was deleted, perhaps because even censors thought it was over the top.
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Instagram is one of the last social networks permitted by the country's internet censors.
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China's internet censors announced new regulations aimed at curbing the spread of "illegal information".
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Since then censors have been busy deleting posts about the surfeit of political puffery.
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Games need to be approved by censors in order to be monetized in China.
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They have developed colourful slang to express sarcasm, dodge censors and attack their opponents.
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Sometimes writers also manage to do things that are beyond the imagination of censors.
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Still, the content was troubling enough to alarm the censors and delay its premiere.
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Twitter has rejected the claim that it "shadow bans" or censors any political ideologies.
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The Chinese government monitors, moderates and censors all content its citizens can access online.
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Increasingly urgent appeals by Israeli journalists had forced military censors to reconsider the ban.
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Most likely, the censors never read what Washington had to say, Mr. Liu said.
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Internet searches for similar terms were blocked by censors along with social media posts.
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Soon she was inundated with misogynistic comments and her post was deleted by censors.
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They are a sign of how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.
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North Korea's censors turned up during rehearsal to listen and demand changes, he added.
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In China, comedians must still submit scripts of their shows to censors for approval.
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Ms. Bruguera says in the MoMA exhibition materials that the censors prohibited this title.
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But, in 19523, after censors banned the movie in several big cities, Warner Bros.
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"Looks like the Chinese censors have had a word with them since," he said.
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In addition to blocking websites, government censors were increasingly using filters to block keywords.
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How long until Microsoft censors Github in China to please the Pooh-bear & Co?
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China ruthlessly censors dissent at home and exports the technology to censor it abroad.
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Kidz Bop is an abomination because it censors language but it doesn't censor content.
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Do you think kids can recognize context even with the censors Kidz Bop applies?
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Do you think what Americans censor in general align with what Kidz Bop censors?
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Government censors blocked its release, and Mr. Zulawski was invited to leave Poland for France.
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Polish censors halted production just as the film was nearing completion and ordered it destroyed.
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No, we don't really have "censors," per se, at CNN -- we have Standards and Practices.
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But it would be a mistake to pressure Facebook and Google into acting as censors.
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The new system will rely largely on machine learning to censors language perceived as harassment.
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Domain fronting is used to bypass censors by hiding the true endpoint of a connection.
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The government censors the internet, which allows it to remove any videos of the massacre.
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Yet the censors seem to forget that "gay moments" are strewn throughout the Disney canon.
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If larger compliance teams are needed to keep censors happy, that too will help incumbents.
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Chinese censors reportedly banned Pooh last summer, but the honeypot meme has circulated widely nonetheless.
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But his impulse to dodge the censors stuck around, as did his knack for subversion.
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Censors had begun their work online, deleting much of the discussion of his party's proposal.
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Chinese censors might keep news of such a speech from parents and youngsters back home.
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China is known for its heavy-handedness in the entertainment industry and censors are tough.
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Independent news channels were blocked by censors; a journalist was killed while recording a broadcast.
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A law from 22011 requires that television programmes and films also pass the censors' muster.
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Malaysian censors had originally given the film – "gay moment" edited out – a similar P13 rating.
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But there are still those topics that the censors just won't let them take on.
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Recently we talked to Angela about stigma, beauty, and satisfying censors with photoshopped lens flairs.
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Censors have banned books on the topic but it was apparently not on this list.
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His greatest triumph, Lord Weidenfeld reckoned, was outfacing the censors and publishing Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita".
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Censors may also be worried that online media might contradict official reports on recent floods.
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Censors tried hard to delete posts critical of the police handling of Mr Lei's case.
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Subsequently, a list of 21 sensitive topics of special concern to the censors was leaked.
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The Foreign Ministry usually censors questions on delicate matters from its transcripts of the briefings.
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Mad was so rude that it only survived comic book censors by becoming a magazine.
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Its media censors purged mentions of Panama and blocked Internet search inquiries with that word.
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This is what happened in the case of Cambridge University Press (CUP) versus the censors.
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Q: Will the trouble with censors and change of release date affect your film's prospects?
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Chinese censors have forced studios to cut scenes that they believed made China look weak.
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Censors control content in government media offices, and private media outlets are issued strict guidelines.
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As a society, we don't really want huge platforms like Facebook to turn into censors.
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While Yummy and Ms. Zhao are not political, they have encountered problems with Chinese censors.
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This week, his memoirs were published in Hong Kong, beyond the reach of Chinese censors.
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Government censors helped control the message, deleting posts about Mr. Trump's comments on North Korea.
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Best known for his lone feature, Commissar, which was banned by censors during the 22018s.
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Leonard Lance to tell him that he is "deeply offended" with how Facebook censors content.
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China's censors quickly took note, and soon one chat room after another was closed down.
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Do you agree with the reputation that you are a company that now censors people?
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But her scenes were deemed inappropriate by the censors, and her entire part was removed.
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Many American films do get released, but only with copious cuts to please the censors.
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When censors suppress these voices, they inflict a constitutional injury on the public as well.
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Censors in the network's standards and practices office began cutting jokes, comments, even entire skits.
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Weibo often removes posts and censors key words to prevent discussion of politically sensitive topics.
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Many comments about his life and death on the Chinese internet were removed by censors.
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Activists and reporters use phones and social media to document atrocities, helping evade government censors.
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But it has waned in recent years, mostly due to fears of a backlash from censors.
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Model Candice Swanepoel is speaking up about the unfair way the world censors the female body.
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Despite the best efforts of censors, however, information is still flowing in and out of Iran.
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When people started using the term "Disney" instead of Pooh, censors just banned the term Disney.
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Many in the audience stood and cheered, while TV censors quickly bleeped out the offending words.
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But the job of the censors is about to get easer if Google has its way.
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"The video stays up until someone censors it," one moderator on /r/watchpeopledie wrote Thursday night.
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After all, the censors could merely treat censorship objections as simply more "lies" to take down.
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But Chinese censors can be unpredictable in their attitudes to violence, pornography, and politically sensitive topics.
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The protest has enraged Chinese censors, and many local browsers are already blocking access to 996.
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Citizen Lab looked at how the Chinese government censors discussion on WeChat, a popular messaging app.
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China's internet censors partially blocked WhatsApp, the latest move in a broad crackdown on foreign media.
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It wasn't private by design, so when censors came along, they pushed on an open door.
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In the mainland, Chinese censors strive to erase or block news or depictions of the protests.
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Social media facilitates the swift spread of information, allowing citizens to easily get around government censors.
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Sometimes written in deliberately ambiguous language to frustrate fascist censors, the notebooks are voluminous and fragmentary.
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On NetEase Music, another popular streaming service, censors appear to have been a little less zealous.
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" The sex therapist, now 90, avoided the censors, she says, "because I was very well trained.
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Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors continues to wield enormous power over which films are seen.
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As after the fire, censors went into overdrive to suppress news about the kindergarten in Beijing.
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Developers must seek approval from government censors before games can be published for users to download.
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The state media attack comes amid a crackdown on content and entertainment from China's internet censors.
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Written largely in the vernacular, they stirred up controversy so successfully that the censors stepped in.
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During the NPC censors removed an online article published by Caixin, a business magazine in Beijing.
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Erstwhile rock and roll rebels have cleaned up their acts to placate censors or been sidelined.
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Those accounts are often deleted by censors, and the police have questioned him at home before.
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Was Xi so afraid of what Liu might have said beyond the reach of Chinese censors?
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Facebook is the largest platform, but it is far from the only target for Thai censors.
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The company announced that it would expand the number of human censors from 6,000 to 10,000.
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Mr. Mansky then handed the card to the censors, who overnight removed anything they found objectionable.
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Our censors did not sound early warning because they are for tectonic activity not volcanic activity.
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The censors are also always more tolerant of criticism when it's not aimed at officials themselves.
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The letter accused censors of using tactics reminiscent of Maoist times to silence and smear critics.
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China censors online information to quash political dissent — and just about anything the government deems dangerous.
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That's what makes this movie so much fun—knowing it made children cry and censors mad.
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" The bottom line: Among Americans, 72% believe social media intentionally censors political viewpoints they find "objectionable.
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Students have tried to elude the censors by using different phrases to denounce harassment and assault.
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Chinese censors have been working hard to erase or block news of the Hong Kong protests.
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The thinking might have been that censors would have been saving young impressionable audiences from themselves.
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Government censors have weeded out any material that seemed to clash with Kuwait's increasingly conservative politics.
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" Turns out his father spent several months in Australia "mostly fighting the censors who protected Gen.
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Few people dare to question Mr. Xi openly, for fear of provoking censors or the police.
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The hard-liners complain that Telegram poses dangers because Iran's censors have no control over it.
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It's hard to disagree with the First Amendment, and even less attractive to align with censors.
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As the operator of Paramount Pictures it is already subject to the whims of Chinese censors.
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He consciously censors himself, skipping over the curse words in the song as he raps along.
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The state-run news media — and China's army of censors — are not known for making jokes.
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There is a dark side of humanity the censors won't let you see … but we will.
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Critical of the post-revolutionary politics of Cuba, it was shut down by censors within hours.
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Only if Myanmar, like China, censors Facebook will New Zero lose contact with its international connections.
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Social media firms, for example, employ hundreds of censors to police what their users say, but for the most part, they do so without guidance or direction from the central government, second guessing what their bosses, and by extension the Communist Party's official censors will disapprove of.
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They may avoid topics deemed by Chinese censors to be off-limits, for fear of being blocked.
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The censors at CW may not be down with this track, but Aunt Flo absolutely loves it.
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China has a sophisticated network of censors policing internet content, so workarounds are increasingly difficult to use.
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But his new film "Raees," about a bootlegger turned politician, has hit a roadblock with Pakistan's censors.
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The government censors content for mainly political reasons, but also to maintain its control over the population.
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Chinese censors ensure that Hollywood movies and TV shows do not depict China in an unfavorable light.
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A decade or more ago, censors kept talk of smog to a minimum in state-owned media.
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And over at ABC's "The View," censors inexplicably censored the word "Jesus" two times in one discussion.
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Yet America had swarmed since its foundation with censors, prigs, prudes and bluenoses intent on sexual repression.
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In 1922 he was arrested again, after censors intercepted invitations to publish "We" in Berlin and Paris.
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In 1961 Soviet censors not only banned the book but seized the manuscript and all Grossman's drafts.
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In smart manufacturing, China wants domestic firms to have 60 percent of the market in industrial censors.
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This is hardly the first time a media site has been blocked by the country's tough censors.
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I was reading about how Chinese censors convert images into black and white, then detect that image.
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Unfortunately for the would-be censors, the days when that sort of thing worked are long past.
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Maybe if he tosses a burger in, Boy Butter's next commercial will make it past corporate censors.
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The show has a tape delay but clearly the censors were not quick enough on the draw.
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In response, Iranian activists and ordinary citizens use circumvention tools, such as VPNs, to evade government censors.
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But matters are different online, where journalists sometimes have had better luck in dodging the party's censors.
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The controversy over Owens comes as Twitter faces claims from the right that it censors conservative users.
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The networking site LinkedIn censors politically delicate content on its Chinese and English language sites in China.
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We can report on it freely, but Chinese media cannot because the state still heavily censors discussion.
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Microsoft censors political content that could anger the Chinese government from Bing search results and LinkedIn posts.
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It was the first witness account published in the US press and was passed through field censors.
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Zuckerberg said the company has made mistakes in reviewing content, but doesn't think it censors political speech.
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Before that there were actual censors, who disallowed the showing of certain material in early movie theaters.
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Men's earrings aren't the only objectionable material that China's censors are blurring, covering up or cutting out.
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But it also needs to make sure the app's content does not cross the lines of censors.
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Despite censors, Chinese internet chat rooms for veterans are still lively with talk of the various protests.
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Government censors have told him to remove jokes not for political content, but for being too rude.
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The movie was too bleak for the government censors and has never been officially released in China.
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Censors blocked the film — the first about fascism since the liberation of Italy — for over a year.
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Facebook also has a formula to guide its censors on which subsets of these groups are protected.
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Today, much of the sexual imagery that alarmed the censors seems trivial, the alarm itself near-hysterical.
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The outpouring of messages online from sad, infuriated and grieving people was too much for the censors.
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Mainland censors denounced the book almost immediately, but in Hong Kong, it was an instant best seller.
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Chinese censors banned images that compared President Xi and Pooh after memes began spreading across the internet.
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Winnie the Pooh, too But it wasn't just the alphabet that took a beating from Chinese censors.
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Censors around the stadium keep track of different zones and adjust the flow from a control room.
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A film producer notes that internet and entertainment companies must stay close to government regulators and censors.
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BEIJING — The Chinese government routinely censors discussion of weighty issues like Tibet, Taiwan and human rights abuses.
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Let it just be said that Chinese censors do not abide video games considered less than wholesome.
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"It's a world full of censors," said Risso, drawing a tight box around himself with his hands.
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Players evade censors easily by omitting letters or adding numerals to ethnic slurs written in game chats.
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Instead of just creating censors and not talking about them, the government is acting with open hostility.
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It also gave its financial media greater freedom, even as censors kept a tight leash on political discourse.
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On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained why Apple chose to comply with the wishes of Chinese censors.
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Looking through the stipulation's details, though, it's easy to see how things can get confusing for the censors.
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Since the news first broke, censors have been working to block Chinese citizens from discussing the Panama Papers.
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And it is unclear how censors plan to tackle virtual private networks, which mask a user's IP address.
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Censors often try to rein in online discussion when it threatens to boil over into real-world protests.
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Now that things are bad between the US and China, censors are allowing plenty of Trump administration bashing.
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Companies that operate social-media platforms or allow users to share content have their own in-house censors.
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She said he's toned it down, though she can't be sure if he just censors himself around her.
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The censors there would prevent Kislyak's American counterpart in appearing on the big screen or local TV shows.
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Official media have largely kept quiet about this and censors have removed any mention of the scandal online.
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Internet censors deleted pictures of the unrest (such as the one shown) as they spread across social media.
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It was thus, as one Chinese newspaper put it, "unexpected" when "Looking for Rohmer" gained the censors' approval.
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They asked for anonymity because discussing the work of China's censors in public is tantamount to corporate suicide.
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Internet censors in both countries are able to filter what websites and apps people can gain access to.
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One is resistance to censorship, which would be a direct threat to any government that censors its media.
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The government has said that it restricts and censors his communications to prevent him from encouraging violent extremism.
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"Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," the statement read.
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Amid growing public outcry over the scandal, Chinese government censors seem to have moved to contain the fallout.
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If only the industry's players could do just that when confronted by Chinese censors and social justice warriors.
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Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, which also owns WhatsApp, are both already blocked by Chinese government censors.
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Who wants to be part of a platform picked over by a total of more than 20,85033 censors?
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Because Myanmar censors all communications in and out of the jails, the letters are limited to family news.
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Some users described it as a "relay race" to try and stay one step ahead of the censors.
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They are grappling with a male-dominated culture, censors and officials who accuse them of colluding with foreigners.
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A clue to its problems with the censors, however, came only days before its scheduled premiere in Shanghai.
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Chinese censors often do not clear American films for distribution until the relative last minute, hindering marketing efforts.
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They are all required to submit their writings to government censors, many for the rest of their lives.
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But that hashtag and posts related to it were quickly banned on the service by the country's censors.
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Plenty of other men's magazines showed nude women, but most were unabashedly crude and forever dodging postal censors.
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Britain was less open to having its operations covered, and the French were the strictest censors of all.
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He referred by way of contrast to China, where Beijing controls and censors speech, including on the internet.
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The content offered by the Chinese state media, after its processing by political censors, is not free information.
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It also criminalises all extramarital sex (and therefore gay sex) and censors the dissemination of information about contraception.
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The censors snipped the script, added a wedding scene, and changed the title to Belle of the Nineties.
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BEIJING — It seemed that China's censors had finally muzzled Yang Jisheng, the famed chronicler of the Mao era.
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As censors sprung into action after Mr. Liu's death, internet users found creative means to convey their opinions.
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Censors are often present in newsrooms, and reporters and editors take close instructions from officials in the presidency.
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For Chinese companies, staying on the safe side of government censors is a matter of life and death.
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Google left the market many years ago after deciding not to censor search results to please government censors.
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Some on the mainland were able to circumvent censors by posting inverted or distorted images of the protests.
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John Oliver's recent Last Week Tonight segment on Chinese president Xi Jinping was blocked by censors in China.
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The term zhengshen briefly lit up Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, before references to it were scrubbed by censors.
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Baumann said North Korean censors would review the footage every night and delete clips they did not approve of.
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In a telling signal of official disapproval of the results, Chinese censors had deleted the poll by Sunday afternoon.
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But another perspective holds that corporations should not be deputized as de facto censors in service of the government.
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In fact, Tencent added a China-only age gate to PUBG Mobile just last month to appease those censors.
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Foreign live news broadcasts still aired about 10 minutes late, to allow government censors time to survey them first.
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The history of how the Turkish government censors the Internet is long and complicated enough to fill a book.
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When CNN broadcast news of the protests inside the country, screens went black as censors cut off the feed.
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Later, however, it seemed China's censors - who play a constant role regulating the country's internet - had loosened the reins.
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It is also a time when Chinese censors are on high alert, particularly when it comes to online media.
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The latest block represents an "evolution" in how Turkey censors its internet, according to Doug Madory, of Dyn Research.
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Google has faced concern from Republican politicians including Senator Cruz, who allege the company censors right-leaning search results.
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Point in case, it is so mainstream now that it has even run into issues with China's internet censors.
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In places such as China, where the government heavily censors the internet, this is not just an academic concern.
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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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When Obama was president, Iranian censors struggled to suppress all of his peaceful overtures and public addresses to Iran.
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When the show was rebroadcast for the West coast, "shite" was bleeped and the 3 other censors were removed.
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That is why China's government rolled tanks over the Tiananmen Square protesters, and why it censors social media today.
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Reports about the Chinese leadership's Panama Papers connections have been blocked by government censors, who report to Mr Liu.
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Recently, however, censors have permitted a few ripples of complaint to disturb the glassy surface of state-run media.
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The Communist Party blocks most foreign social media, routinely censors dissenting views and punishes those who repeatedly speak out.
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In what clearly looked like a politically motivated prosecution, the courts ignored that Egyptian censors had approved the references.
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To outfox censors looking for June 4, people have taken to referring to "May 35" — four days into June.
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Twitter denies that it censors conservative content and says its only focus is on targeting abusive users or trolls.
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A picture (left) that circulated on social media of a protest outside a KFC outlet was deleted by censors.
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In response, ByteDance added thousands of censors to screen content on top of AI-driven recommendation across its apps.
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Censors have demanded the removal of about 100 articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, also published by CUP.
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Censors always go into overdrive before these events—the next one is due by the end of the year.
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The country also regularly censors online content that has the potential to destabilize the Communist Party's grip on power.
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Only Twitter's Jack Dorsey, recently photographed with the Dalai Lama, seems to have given up on pleasing the censors.
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Mehran left Iran, but now he is back, perhaps trusting that there is a new openness from the censors.
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Fortunately for the censors, there is a more old-fashioned method for tackling VPNs and other circumvention tools: fear.
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China's censors are notoriously sensitive not just to subversive political content, but also references to sex, drugs and religion.
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And they should not turn private companies into censors in their quest to define the scope of civil discourse.
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Her digital image files were checked daily, and she had to develop her film in front of the censors.
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Four artists' works were flagged by government censors for their experimental projects about artificial intelligence, genome modification, and bioethics.
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Censors vet stories, and orders come from the presidential administration on what line they should follow on topical events.
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But this particular drama would seem to have plenty of potential to unnerve Chinese censors, and embolden their critics.
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But CBS's censors, with the benefit of a 10-second delay, made sure the television audience didn't hear it.
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Now it appears China's censors may have their sights on another cuddly cartoon character turned subversive symbol: Peppa Pig.
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On the China side, connections wither behind filters and censors that block foreign websites and scrub social media posts.
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He once joked that Moscow censors were his best readers, the most expert at catching his meanings and nuances.
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But after she managed to get the word "shite" past the censors, they apparently weren't taking any more chances.
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For more than two years, the publication has been blocked by government censors from easy internet access within Egypt.
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The only hope for such filmmakers left was that censors would struggle to implement the new rules, he said.
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There are plenty of ways to fall foul of censors, from negative depictions of society to portraying "unrefined" images.
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One doctor in Wuhan, China, resorted to making a video plea for masks that was deleted by government censors.
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Anti-vaxxers are still on Instagram, and they've found a new way to elude Facebook's censors: 20203 political hashtags.
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That resulted in 404 error messages as articles and comments were deleted, a sign of China's censors at work.
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When a cigarette appears in a movie, Turkish censors either blur it or put a cartoon flower over it.
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To police public conversation, as China's censors are tasked to do all across the country, means listening to it.
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Jason: Everyone self-censors on public social media... one's Facebook profile is never a perfect representation of their life.
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Russian law gives censors sweeping powers to ban political and pro-LGBTQ content under the guise of national security.
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But the ultimate evolution of the Vetements ethos as expressed here wasn't about the dark web or the censors.
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In 2011 he bemoaned the fact that Chinese censors block access to Facebook (and Twitter, too, he might have added).
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The film drew millions of views online, before government censors stepped in and removed it from Chinese video sharing websites.
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All video games released in China must be approved by censors as well as a separate agency that handles commercialization.
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Because the show airs on Comedy Central, not broadcast TV, it has been largely spared the wrath of network censors.
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"It was really just getting around the censors and being as sexual as you could get away with," added Wills.
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This allows services that would otherwise have their traffic blocked skate under the censors by appearing to come from Google.
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The episode, "Band in China" is a critique of how Hollywood shapes its content to avoid offending Chinese government censors.
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And like several other Chinese companies, it censors its apps and has allegedly passed user information to the Chinese government.
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The great ones like Richard Pryor didn't allow censors and critics stop him from doing what was in his heart.
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She helped dozens of women report cases of sexual assault and abuse online, battling censors and a male-dominated culture.
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Media carried no reports of the demonstrations, while mentions of the protests on social media were scrubbed by internet censors.
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In addition to encountering rancor from Italian censors, Playmen also was frequently challenged by Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy.
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"I CAN'T believe the censors let this one slide", remarks an online commentator on Zhihu, a question-and-answer forum.
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There have been two notable instances this year where Chinese users were able to subvert state censors through the blockchain.
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Censors do not appear to read all the books they ban—no surprise, since they blacklist about two per day.
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China has copied Russia's harsh laws on NGOs; the Kremlin has been trying to learn how China censors the internet.
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After Crimea voted in a bogus referendum to join Russia, censors in China ordered media to play down the event.
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Released from the fear of the censors, the internet has enabled Muslims and Jews to leapfrog borders and passport controls.
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Internet censors have been busy deleting messages posted on social media by outraged citizens in response to the vaccine scandal.
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With a feature in this issue, he plans to smuggle stacks of VICE magazine into China to evade online censors.
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Some were playing instruments; others were at their desks; all were carefully positioned to evade Instagram's trigger-happy nipple censors.
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The U.S. briefing paper that at first leaked on the social-media site Weibo was deleted by Chinese government censors.
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For example, China's censors had to work overtime to silence mass Chinese dissent after the news of Xi's power grab.
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Hollywood editors routinely tweak movies to appease Chinese government censors, eager to squeeze every last dollar from the international marketplace.
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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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With an eye toward distribution in China, American filmmakers increasingly edit films in anticipation of Chinese censors' many potential sensitivities.
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On the internet in China, reaction has been divided, even as censors appeared to be removing any especially sharp comments.
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American academics should think critically about how to respond to China's growing influence, instead of acting as Xi's willing censors.
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"It was a young person's heart attack," it concluded, a phrase that quickly trended online until censors snuffed it out.
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There were media censors in the newsrooms in 2006 -- that has now transformed itself into a culture of self-censorship.
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The moderators—censors, really—take down postings and may ban users if they detect a violation of their corporation's rules.
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And it's true, black blockout censors were used generously throughout the group date, likely something Hannah had no problem with.
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But not too watchful—a prim 'parental advisory' sticker censors all frisky business that brings new kitties into the mix.
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" Some players simply asked why Jagex is including such an event when the chat log still censors the word "gay.
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Many conservatives remain dissatisfied, a new survey shows, and feel that social media in general "censors" their point of view.
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Russian censors are scrambling to shut down Twitter inside the country and keep the emails out of Russian-language media.
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She initially drew theatrical and literary personalities and, defying censors, smuggled in the works of D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller.
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Censors quickly scrubbed most articles and posts about his remarks, though some state media reports including the quote remain accessible.
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Large red banners plastered around Beijing trumpet the congress, while censors have stepped up already tight monitoring of the internet.
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Censors have tried to keep up, but posts referring to the BRI as da sa bi can still be found.
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Censors have stepped up efforts to shield Chinese audiences from depictions of gay life in films, on television and online.
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The tightening of Mr. Xi's power is considered so delicate that censors have squashed online commentary of almost any kind.
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Another angle: Many people in China oppose the protests, seeing only the news that Beijing's censors allow them to see.
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Sometimes, journalists were silenced, forbidden to write for months as punishment for writing articles that ran afoul of the censors.
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As told by Popoff, the stories behind Grossman's stories, particularly of censors' efforts to alter and limit them, are fascinating.
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Just before the censorship message, in fact, the show's characters discuss a fictional tech company's decision to appease Chinese censors.
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Still, government censors were working overtime to police public discussion of the general's death on China's tightly controlled social media.
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He recently completed a new movie, which he plans to release online through BBC Persia to avoid the government's censors.
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He is said to have dropped an ashtray during one screening to try to distract censors from a dicey scene.
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While homosexuality was decriminalized by China in 1997, Chinese censors are infamous for cutting out LGBTQ TV and movie scenes.
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That anger intensified after the initial decision of government censors to block online discussions and media reporting of the case.
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"These boards have become the new censors," said Wesley Hottot, an Institute for Justice lawyer who is representing Mr. Jarlstrom.
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Though some barbs have slipped through, the censors are still scrubbing material critical of the government, or information deemed alarming.
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Letters were given to censors, who carefully read each line, redacting references to force strength, unit movements and troop locations.
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Most cannot access the internet or any information from the outside world that has not been approved by state censors.
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Google has faced accusations from right-wing groups and politicians over the past few years that it censors conservative content.
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Twitter and Facebook are blocked by Iranian state censors, but users have installed special software that helps bypass the block.
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In the aftermath, the company's founder apologized profusely — and pledged to hire 4,000 new censors, bringing the total to 10,000.
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China strictly censors foreign news outlets, search engines and social media including content from Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
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Think how great it would feel if you could find the resilience that would help you dismantle these internal censors!
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The app faced renewed questions about whether it censors material after it removed an American's video about Muslims in China.
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Never mind that Mr. Xi's government jails dissidents, censors the internet and is accused of running a relentlessly mercantilist economy.
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If the censors cannot rein in discussion to their satisfaction they will simply cut the internet off entirely, as they did in Xinjiang a decade ago and have done in numerous other parts of the country since, reminding users once and for all that this is the censors' web -- you just post on it.
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As his death approached, it mobilised an army of censors to scrub the internet of any expression of sympathy for him.
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There's not any combination of cuts, edits or re-dubs that will make 20th Century Fox's Deadpool palatable to Chinese censors.
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China's censors have published long blacklists of banned content that can range from lampoons of national heroes to overly graphic violence.
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The 150-plus videos Motherboard tracked also show the various tactics Islamic State supporters use to try to bypass YouTube's censors.
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But Chinese viewers were finished viewing the first episode long before viewers in the U.S after censors airbrushed out key scenes.
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Facebook has always banned photos of naked people, though there has been inconsistencies in the way that it censors nude images.
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One thing we do know for sure: People in China get creative when they're trying to bypass the country's internet censors.
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In 2016, Chinese censors banned the portrayal of "abnormal sexual behavior" in TV and online shows, including gay and lesbian relationships.
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Andeel is optimistic that a generation of internet amateurs, who can bypass the censors and the studios, will reshape the landscape.
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Chinese internet censors blocked Facebook in 2009, and since then, Zuckerberg has made several attempts to win over the country's leadership.
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It suggests a wave of new and more aggressive tactics by state censors and cyber-watchers trying to control the Internet.
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Censors insist that it is not funny how a bear likes honey, no matter how much buzz, buzz, buzz it generates.
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WeChat, which is owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent, frequently censors politically sensitive content at the request of Chinese government authorities.
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The company continues to operate in China and censors search results on its search engine Bing to comply with local laws.
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ARE today's warriors against "fake news" taking a road that will eventually lead to the methods of inquisitors and religious censors?
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He used sci-fi allegories to slip past network censors and make sharp statements about totalitarianism, xenophobia, conspiracy theorists, and more.
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Why it matters: Facebook embarked on the audit to address allegations that it censors conservative voices and discriminates against minority groups.
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Censors tilt the playing field by blocking Hollywood films when their release might tempt audiences away from favoured home-grown ones.
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Facebook is currently blocked by state censors in China (and it even failed to open a startup incubator there last year).
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Besides that palpable tension the audience felt radiating off the censors, there was a stiff exchange between Gervais and Mel Gibson.
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Despite advances in AI censorship, current-day tourist snaps in the square are sometimes unintentionally blocked, one of the censors said.
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Video games released in the U.S. typically tone down the sexy stuff, but Japan censors focus more on blood and gore.
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But it wasn't enough to circumvent Chinese censors, dubbed the "Great Firewall," and eventually meant the company was shut out entirely.
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But the largest workforce of humans working in conjunction in AI is in China — where the government alone employs 100,000 censors.
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Censors reacted by closing Mr Ren's social-media accounts and by purging the internet of numerous messages in support of him.
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The BBFC was founded in 1912, back when the "C" still stood for "Censors," and not "Classification" as it is now.
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While we're pretty sure his protest wouldn't sway the Chinese censors, we give Watson top marks for giving us the giggles.
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Bent on transforming the global Internet into a Chinese Intranet, official censors have made deft and extensive use of the method.
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America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.
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These are the flash floods of outrage which in turn provoke demands that the authorities rein in the would-be censors.
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Amid an unrelenting outcry by the public over the scandal, Chinese government censors appear to have moved to contain the fallout.
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Censors have been working hard to ensure that news of the leaks does not penetrate China's "Great Firewall" of Internet controls.
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Unpredictable censors are punishing video and news sharing apps, including ones from Bytedance, the $75 billion mega-unicorn, for "vulgar" content.
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China strictly monitors internet content and employs an army of censors to scrub away information it says will disrupt "social order".
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They also worry that any effort to quash certain content in the United States could only aid censors in other countries.
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Motamed Arya said that because Iranian censors banned sex, violence and alcohol, the country's film industry had developed differently from most.
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While censors were quick to remove posts on WeChat Moments, similar to a Facebook feed, some made it through the filter.
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In his frustration, Mr. Rockwell let slip an expletive that was not caught by censors — at least on the East Coast.
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America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
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Playing it safe: For Chinese companies, staying on the safe side of government censors is a matter of life and death.
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"If there's no freedom to criticize, then soliciting opinions is completely meaningless," said one comment, which was also removed by censors.
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What had riled the censors (and attracted the vanguard readers) were a few scenes in "Ulysses" where women indulge sexual fantasies.
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On the Chinese internet, people complained that censors were working in overdrive as many articles and social media posts were deleted.
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Beyond unsurprising restrictions on graphic nudity, sex and violence, China's censors can balk at anything from men wearing earrings to ghosts.
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Censors also blocked the release of 2013's "World War Z," amplifying the film's relative financial disappointment for its studio, Paramount.
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Stricter censorship followed, and the government poured more funding into state-sponsored festivals that only screened movies cleared by their censors.
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The sheer volume of criticism and the ways that critics dodge censors are testing Beijing's ability to control the narrative. 3.
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Social media users in China have circumvented rules on criticizing the government, avoiding censors to lash out at the state response.
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It was deleted by censors, along with related topics, such as ones saying the Wuhan government owed Dr. Li an apology.
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The messages were often encoded to fool the censors; Mr. Bosco's lilting tunes and rhythms made every song seem to float.
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So even as censors stepped up scrutiny in recent days, many savvy Chinese internet users found ways to evade those efforts.
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"Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," the duo said in a statement.
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Some social media posts on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform like Twitter, appear to have been erased by government censors.
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In 2016, Chinese censors banned the portrayal of "abnormal sexual behavior," including gay and lesbian relationships in TV and online shows.
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These holes in the plot incensed a generation of young movie buffs, who are largely more progressive than the country's censors.
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China strictly polices online content and employs an army of censors to scrub sensitive content it says will undermine social stability.
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But adding the name Disney to the list seems to mean that it's not just Pooh that the censors are worried about.
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The Twilight Zone came about after Serling was tired of fighting with censors over the socially conscious stories he yearned to tell.
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These rules give the police an excuse to arrest irksome journalists and hand censors the authority to ban and seize offending material.
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It's a powerful and potentially sinister collector of personal data, a propaganda partner to government censors, and an enabler of discriminatory advertising.
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It's not the only firm which has decided playing ball with censors is a better idea than staying out of the market.
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In 2016, Chinese censors even banned the portrayal of "abnormal sexual behavior" in TV and online shows, including gay and lesbian relationships.
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Many of his early films ran afoul of government censors, which had fewer problems with the patriotic undertones of his action epics.
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"Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," they said in a statement on Twitter.
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Its appeal has prompted Communist Party outfits to set up accounts, and, on one occasion, state censors to place restrictions on it.
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"Don't let the totalitarian censors win," Benny Johnson, chief creative officer at Turning Point USA and popular right-wing Twitter personality, said.
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The senators raised concerns about the video-sharing platform's collection of user data and whether China censors content seen by U.S. users.
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"Facebook censors conservatives" seems likely to join that depressing canon of myths, and it's not clear what anyone can do about it.
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Background: Ms. Huang helped dozens of women report cases of sexual assault and abuse online, battling censors and a male-dominated culture.
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Many feature Winnie the Pooh, banned by Chinese censors after the character has been used to mock the country's president Xi Jinping.
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It was deleted by censors, along with related topics, such as ones saying that the Wuhan government owed Dr. Li an apology.
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This year's edition was dedicated to Miss Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, with censors deeming the movie "religiously and culturally inappropriate".
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As the letter spread through Chinese social media, government censors deleted it completely and also took down reblogs of the original letter.
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Editor's note: This comic is from the underground comics scene in China, which flies under the radar from the country's infamous censors.
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As not seen on TV Chinese censors just banned a lot of insidious things from TV, like celebs' kids and time travel.
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In 1968, Issam Mahfouz's play "The Dictator", about a mentally disturbed tyrant who believes himself humanity's saviour, unsurprisingly fell afoul of censors.
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Surrounded by noodle restaurants and construction sites, the Wisdom Mountain Twin Towers, where the censors do their work, don't exactly look Orwellian.
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It looks likely that the new law will see contact from Vietnamese government censors spike, but Facebook has acted on content before.
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But it has to manage the material on its platforms carefully in order to stay on the right side of China's censors.
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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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But restrictions on workers' speech don't end at rigged elections; the government also censors what unions can do at the bargaining table.
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Xi apparently did not take kindly to the comparisons, and Chinese censors started blocking images and mentions of Pooh on social media.
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So, sometimes, an app that would be blocked by censors can mask itself within the traffic of a popular—and approved—service.
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When American diplomats placed advertisements in Indian newspapers proclaiming the right of all men to freedom, British censors quietly confiscated those editions.
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They often encounter resistance from Chinese censors — "Platform," which was banned from Chinese theaters, made Mr. Jia's name there through pirated DVDs.
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The Publicity Department sounds like the home of spin doctors, spokesmen and censors, and the scope of such activity is indeed vast.
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But they also highlight the pitfalls for nascent AI in China, where censors control online content seen as politically incorrect or harmful.
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Take Republicans like Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who is on a quest to gut 230 to "protect" conservative speech from phantom censors.
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With its themes of religion and wartime aggression, however, this unofficial sequel wound up requiring some careful negotiations with the Chinese censors.
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Its algorithms and its censors' judgments, though they inevitably affect commerce and political competition, are based upon rules that aren't all published.
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Twitter actively censors and shadow-bans conservatives, such as Plaintiff, thereby eliminating his voice while amplifying the voices of his Democratic detractors.
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Because administrators subjectively decide which prospective speakers are controversial, they become de facto censors when student groups are unable to ante up.
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Now their response to being thrust into the political limelight is to become potential censors of our news and even opinion information.
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That story of a man marrying a woman to seduce her daughter was notoriously difficult to get past mid-century Hollywood censors.
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China's internet censors, trigger-happy at the best of times, have gone into overdrive to sanitize discussion of the term limit changes.
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The news media has been helped by the Chinese public, which has shown determination and inventiveness in squaring off with internet censors.
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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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Telegram, banned in Russia and mainland China, is one of the most targeted encrypted apps by Chinese censors, according to industry experts.
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We get the "Met Live in HD" opera broadcasts from New York (but delayed for several months to pass the local censors).
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The Indian press initially said about 900 workers were in the mine, but Indian censors ordered the story suppressed, The A.P. said.
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Following his death, hundreds of thousands of people posted demands for free speech online -- that were themselves quickly scrubbed by the censors.
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"Like the N.B.A., we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," the show's official account wrote on Twitter.
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Some are even evading censors, who commonly stifle criticism of the government, to register complaints about how officials have handled the crisis.
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I wanted to name it 'Peacock' but was told it was a hard no and that it would not pass the censors.
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In some instances, people have referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as "Trump" to avoid the censors, The New York Times reported.
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Many use it to get around internet censors in other countries or to keep their information from being obtained by mass surveillance.
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Politicians downplayed the severity of the virus, while police went after "rumormongers" and censors deleted any commentary that questioned the official line.
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Citizens can't denounce Xi by name, but they are skilled in evading censors — such as by substituting President Trump's name for Xi's.
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In theory, it attempts to curb online sex work; in practice, it often censors speech that shouldn't be restricted under the law.
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Like others, Mr. Gao acknowledged softening his commentaries to avoid trouble, trying to work around, or one step ahead of, the censors.
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Some of the artists came, too: They had no money, were exhibiting in one another's Beijing apartments and dodging post-Tiananmen censors.
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The censors can't keep up, though: Maybe what goes up online must come down, but what comes down will go up again.
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The Associated Press said it worked to keep its photo service objective and free of propaganda, at times clashing with Nazi censors.
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Censors have been on especially high alert this year in light of the Communist Party's 19th National Party Congress in the fall.
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It ran into trouble with censors, who demanded that 78 sections be cut — some only a few words long, others complete passages.
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On the question of whether TikTok censors content on its platform to appease Chinese officials, the company has insisted it does not.
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Ezequiel Suárez, who with the artist Sandra Ceballos founded Havana's oldest alternative space, Espacio Aglutinador, was hounded by censors in the 1990s.
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CNN stories on the Xinjiang detention centers and the protests in Hong Kong are regularly removed from the air by Chinese censors.
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Russia censors the Internet and at the very least turns a blind eye to massive cyber crime campaigns undertaken by its citizens.
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Lam even as government censors assiduously tried to block word of the Hong Kong protests from reaching the public in mainland China.
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LeBron James went full Richard Pryor during his speech at the Cavaliers championship parade ... shocking fans and giving TV censors heart attacks.
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The New York Times already has its website blocked by Chinese censors, but a redesigned iOS app allowed customers to bypass the firewall.
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Censors took issue with the script's specific references to the South and lynching, and forced Serling to change the setting to New England.
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Though censors have attempted to clamp down on access to VPNs, other alternatives like proxy client Shadowsocks are harder for authorities to target.
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The Chinese government routinely censors the internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability.
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For the much-anticipated season 8 opener Sunday night, government censors deprived viewers of about six minutes of action deemed inappropriate for citizens.
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Many Chinese netizens, far from abhorring his leaks, appear to relish them—if, that is, they are able to dodge the hyperactive censors.
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Censors using his technique could spot and block the viewing of things they disapproved of, no matter how highly encrypted those things were.
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The insult has not been welcomed by Chinese authorities and censors in Beijing have attempted to banish it from cyberspace in mainland China.
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The Walt Disney Company has shelved the Malaysian release of the movie, despite the country's film censors eventually approving the much-anticipated film.
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Soviet censors decreed that the novel's unflinching comparisons between the barbarism of Nazi and Stalinist regimes would make it unpublishable for 250 years.
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Some non-profit groups that sought to offer assistance said they have been obstructed by police, with their online advertisements blocked by censors.
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Hitchcock managed to get a shot of Renfro's navel passed by he censors "because it was so fast with quick cuts," she explains.
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Despite the restrictions, internet posters have written in support of Liu and his cause, using variations on his name to avoid the censors.
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Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots.
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Chinese regulations limit the number of films imported into the country each year, and the government's censors often object to foreign entertainment content.
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It's likely the app as well as others like microblogging site Sina Weibo will step up its efforts to please censors this month.
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Later that year, she earned more attention for the song when TV censors bleeped out "joint" during her performance at the CMA Awards.
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Some sensitive postings were retweeted by users with large followings before they were eventually deleted, suggesting that censors occasionally failed to keep up.
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Yes, host Ricky Gervais was bleeped more than once, but he wasn't the only star leaving censors on the edge of their seats.
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But to call students "censors" fails to understand what no-platforming entails in the broader context of higher education and its core mission.
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Many Chinese stay one step ahead of the censors, using software to jump over the Great Firewall of China and reach foreign websites.
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Still, a decade ago censors had banned the showing in China of "Brokeback Mountain", a Hollywood film about a gay romance between cowboys.
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She no longer needed to outfox censors; she had simply grown fond of the Rollos, everyday objects that could be turned into art. ■
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The app has since resumed normal service, but the incident shows that it is now firmly on the radar of China's internet censors.
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Though most titles only hint at homosexual relations and instead feature "bromances," others are more explicit, risking the ire of the country's censors.
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The melodies on Pitiless Censors are instantly classic, even catchy, but the arrangements are bizarre and spooky, like organs in a haunted house.
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Surprisingly, the greatest censors in China, such as the editors of Xinhua and People's Daily, often emerge as democracy advocates after they retire.
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He predicted the censors would "100% shore up the gains" they have made in recent months, building the Great Firewall higher and higher.
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I worked as a journalist in China for years, and many of my articles calling for freedom and openness have irked the censors.
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HONG KONG — China heavily censors its Internet, limiting what its people can see or say online to channels that the government can control.
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It will present perhaps the last great challenge to the censors who have managed to almost erase the incident from Chinese popular consciousness.
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It gives us another chance to wonder just how far FX's censors will allow Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk to take their whims.
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If a government (other than the US) censors you, you have plenty of other countries where you can try to spread your message.
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" The report was deleted from the magazine's website, but Caixin posted an article in English chastising censors for cutting the "free speech comments.
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Why it matters: The efforts are happening in response to allegations that the tech giant censors conservative voices and discriminates against minority groups.
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" But, but, but: "Movies screened in Saudi cinemas will be subject to approval by government censors, and Wednesday night's premiere was no exception.
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The protests on Monday were an unusual challenge to the government, which has deployed censors to limit discussion of the vaccine crisis online.
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The phrase has become a rallying cry for critics of the government's mass expulsions, though censors now block it on the Chinese internet.
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Censors recently deleted an online petition calling on Peking University to offer seminars on improper conduct and create committees to investigate abuse reports.
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The movie he was working on at the time, "Castle of Otranto," came under greater scrutiny, and censors demanded he make many changes.
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Of the four artists impacted by the cultural censors, neither the artists nor the curators had any inkling on what triggered the censorship.
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Censors there have reportedly ordered media outlets to stop mentioning Made in China 463, the nation's master plan to become a tech superpower.
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All of this has played out on a patch of cyberspace blocked from web giants like Facebook and Google and policed by censors.
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Some local news reports disappeared from their websites shortly after they were published, an indication that government censors may have ordered them removed.
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Ms. Bruguera, a native of Cuba, made several proposals leading up to the 2000 Biennial — all of which were rejected by official censors.
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French censors banned publicity for this erotic novel after its 1954 release in Paris; the following year it won a major literary prize.
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Since the development of the Great Firewall, the number one target of the censors has always been calls for protests or offline organizing.
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"In Poland, only two years ago, 'Hunting Cockroaches' couldn't make it through the censors because it was an anti-Communist play," he wrote.
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Movie studios, especially, have worked to ensure that their scripts aren't at odds with state censors, lest they lose billions in potential business.
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Those watching live on NBC were treated to plenty of silence as nervous censors hit the mute button on the audio multiple times.
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He attempted to link the idea of U.S. companies potentially policing free expression to protect safety and elections with how China censors speech.
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Now the reading room's operations are being cut, and those same documents could in theory appear online with content scrubbed by the censors.
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"I want freedom of speech" also emerged as one of the top trending topics on the site, until government censors stopped the messages.
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American lawmakers have expressed concern that TikTok censors material that the Chinese government does not like and allows Beijing to collect user data.
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Since 2016, Chinese censors have banned portrayals of what they see as "abnormal sexual behaviors," including gay relationships, in TV and online shows.
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Did the Hays Code push writers to have to be more creative to outsmart the censors, and shape the idea of movies today?
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The company, owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent, often censors people in China, but its strict content policies appear to be spreading overseas.
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Producers of the film, which tells the story of disaffected youth, said it hadn't been finished in time to get approval from censors.
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China's government importers and censors prefer those box office hits for the quota of 34 foreign movies allowed into the country each year.
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Sites hosting popular foreign television shows have had videos taken down, and tools used to skirt the censors have faced more frequent disruptions.
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Even some foreign books that one might think would run afoul of Communist Party censors can be found in real and virtual bookstores.
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In some ways, for Yiannopoulos and his crusade against what he sees as politically correct censors on the left, the cancellation was a win.
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The highlight of every episode was when the couples were asked about "making whoopee" - the euphemism the show used for sex to mollify censors.
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She can even control what her daughter sees, and the technician censors a clip of Season 3's "Men Against Fire" to prove it.
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The company's senior vice-president told Bloomberg before Bojack was pulled, that Netflix had to give Chinese censors lead time to approve its content.
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But that's partly because the Bond franchise began at a time when film censors required that homosexuality be portrayed negatively or not at all.
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Government censors in Germany, UK, and the US sought to suppress the actual number of deceased in an effort to maintain morale back home.
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China's robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears Speaking of China, TikTok's parent company is helping the government out with a censorship campaign.
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Facebook censors and removes user accounts based on unknown criteria and at the request of third parties including government and foreign government agencies.4.
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But Shi Yedong, a Beijing-based film analyst, said it was unusual that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had even passed China's censors in the current circumstances.
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Kjellberg claims Chinese censors have erased some search results for his name from popular search engines like Baidu, which is China's equivalent to Google.
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Following the censorship of the #MeToo hashtag, a Chinese student activist based in Canada came up with an alternative to stump the censors: mitu.
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In February, netizens were angered when Chinese censors abruptly pulled popular gay drama Addiction off air, three-quarters of the way into the series.
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But in recent days, millions of people have shared Ms. Gao's story online, even as the government has deployed censors to stamp it out.
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Beijing's censors have moved to block conversation about the Trump-Tsai phone call on social media, hoping to prevent a groundswell of public anger.
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Chinese censors have introduced a slate of new regulations to better enable them to police digital and social media as closely as traditional publications.
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In Russia, the film was slapped with an "adults only" rating because of the moment, and Malaysian censors edited it out of the film.
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And how does anyone, let alone Tumblr's automatic censors, draw the line between illustrations that depict sex acts and illustrations that simply "feature" nudity?
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Even though censors carefully vetted his script, many fans of his work say his crooked protagonists are far more convincing than the good ones.
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Q. Because your films and books focus on the "dark side" of China's rapid economic development, you've often been the target of government censors.
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Most of the day-to-day control is in the hands of censors working for the nominally private companies which dominate the Chinese web.
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Li's post, which was first released on the messaging app WeChat, was reportedly removed by Chinese censors not long after it was put up.
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Indeed, its popularity is so widespread that it has caught the attention of government censors, who last week clamped down on three popular services.
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"There has long been a cat-and-mouse game with VPNs in China and censors regularly change their blocking techniques," its spokesman told Reuters.
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They, in turn, are subject to the Communist Party censors who control what is published by Chinese authors and foreign writers translated into Chinese.
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When CNN, which is restricted in the venues it can broadcast in China, reported Mr. Trump's comments on Sunday, censors turned television screens blank.
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Today, dissidents are being imprisoned and forced to confess on national TV. The government monitors and censors the political views of students studying abroad.
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Ms. Zhao estimates that 25 percent of Yummy's online articles are deleted by censors, who tend to be especially sensitive to sexually explicit content.
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Until a few years ago, when Cubans stepped up to the plate, censors edited them out, acknowledging a reality everybody knew was too painful.
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During a rare burst of relative transparency early in the epidemic, Chinese journalists did much to expose the problems, but censors closed that window.
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Surprisingly, Mr. Darnton never felt scared; he found that the "cat-and-mouse game of getting around censors" gave him a frisson of thrill.
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Yet in January, government censors appeared to briefly block Bing, which, though little used, provides a rare portal in China to the global internet.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads HONG KONG — Artists tackling global social issues have been banned by cultural censors from China's upcoming Guangzhou Triennial.
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But Chinese viewers who saw the cannoli ad — some overseas and some using special software to circumvent Chinese censors — found it crass and patronizing.
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As. Mr. Zhan noted, "Youth" had already passed the scrutiny of Chinese censors, and it was shown at the Toronto Film Festival this month.
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Digitisation has made the job of censors more efficient, too, as they are able to process requests more quickly and at a greater volume.
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The postings show how they used Chinese social media services, particularly Weibo, to collect images of incidents before they were erased by online censors.
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China's sudden action drew praise from the World Health Organization and other bodies overseas, but at home, anguished and angry comments sneaked past censors.
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"Like the N.B.A., we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," said Trey Parker and Matt Stone in a statement.
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Unhappy with this partial bowing to its censors, CCTV and Tencent announced they would suspend current broadcast arrangements for the NBA's pre-season games.
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The kiss was also cut from screenings in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but China's censors allowed it.
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His best tracks are wry, Auto-Tune-heavy R&B jams that seem like they were designed to make China's prudish internet censors blush.
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In China, censors have erased or blocked most news of the protests amid concerns that any large public rallies could inspire demonstrations on the mainland.
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However, it is still possible to access other sources of news, either by using VPNs or seeking out sites that have escaped the censors' attention.
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"It's been widely reported that Bahrain censors internet content," said Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, in an interview at the lab's offices in Toronto.
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The Chinese government regularly removes online content that "propagate[s] negative speech," and censors messages on group chat platforms like WeChat without letting users know.
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Chinese censors have exerted tight control over the media and internet, and President Xi Jinping has sought to consolidate the government's control in recent years.
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Their extraordinary, if fleeting, appearance was a glimpse of the dissent that still lurks in China, and that can sometimes outwit its army of censors.
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China's censors have not been this overwhelmed since 2011, when anger and embarrassment over a high-speed rail accident in Wenzhou became impossible to scrub.
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Contrary to protecting the rights of users, internet activists say these measures would turn large social media companies into censors and damage freedom of expression.
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Censors ordered the show's editors to crop the footage to hide any cleavage, resulting in much tighter shots on stars' faces, and widespread outrage online.
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During Madonna's Super Bowl halftime performance in 2012, M.I.A. flipped off the camera during the performance, eluding the NBC censors by less than a second.
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PERHAPS ONLY in the Middle East do the censors get their own stand at book fairs—as they did at last year's jamboree in Kuwait.
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Chinese entrepreneurs are supposedly fleeing the country and seeking safer waters as the government clamps down on dissent and further censors China's already narrow internet.
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The censors' reasoning may be that tattle about film stars might lead people to believe that it is also acceptable to peddle rumour about politicians.
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While the Taif Agreement and the official end of the civil war in 1990 brought an uneasy peace, censors waged a new battle on culture.
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Bing also censors its search service for Chinese users, so it would be odd if its inaccessibility proves to be a case of government clampdown.
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As Facebook has become an increasingly important venue for activists documenting police abuse, many of them have complained that overzealous censors routinely block their posts.
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A greater proportion accesses the web through Wi-Fi hotspots, but prices remain prohibitively high for many, and the government heavily censors websites and media.
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China's Communist Party is very sensitive to any content seen to jeopardize its grip on power, and regularly censors social media posts and movie scenes.
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Only by making major compromises with the censors was Google able to launch a Chinese search product in the 2000s, and even that wasn't enough.
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The Indonesia Ministry of Maritime Affairs' censors "did not sound early warning because they are for tectonic activity not volcanic activity," spokesman Rahmat Djamaluddin said.
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Police in Shanghai have busted what they say is gang who duped websites into deleting negative reviews by posing as government censors and media personnel.
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When it came time to thank her mom, who was her Emmy date, Moss let her guard down, perhaps too much for the Emmy censors.
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To thwart the censors, social media users have made creative use of hashtags such as #RiceBunny — a phrase which in China is pronounced 'me too.
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The censors delete her posts after one day, two days, depending on what she writes, but then she'll just do screenshots and post it again.
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They have been published by the Chinese University Press in Hong Kong, a self-governed city that remains beyond the direct reach of party censors.
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To that end, his internet censors have been working overtime, banning Winnie the Pooh references to keep the masses from slyly making fun of him.
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In Vietnam, there are only a few forms art can take to be supported financially or institutionally, or to be granted display by government censors.
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Communist Party censors are scouring the internet to suppress criticism of a proposal, expected to pass, allowing President Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely.
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SHANGHAI — China's government, which tirelessly suppresses critical voices, unwanted ideologies and subversive memes, has turned its censors against an unlikely target: its own economic policies.
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They include tighter regulations from the country's censors and a high-profile public spat with a powerful and deeply connected Chinese internet giant, Tencent Holdings.
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Chinese censors tested on Thursday a new way of shutting down websites and cutting off the country's internet users from the rest of the world.
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"Like the N.B.A., we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," the show's creators said in a tongue-in-cheek response.
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Disney doesn't believe censorship will be a problem for Mulan, with Reed explaining it worked "very closely" with censors and its releasing partners in China.
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After its release in 2015, the documentary, "Under the Dome," quickly went viral before Chinese Communist Party censors abruptly ordered its removal from online platforms.
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The sheer volume of criticism of the government, and the sometimes clever ways that critics dodge censors, are testing Beijing's ability to control the narrative.
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At the same time, YouTube continues to face pressure from Republican leaders such as President Donald Trump over claims that the video platform censors conservatives.
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But how they will cash in on the games and stay on the right side of government censors might prove to be a tricky question.
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But U.S. lawmakers have expressed concern in recent months that TikTok censors content on orders from Beijing and shares user data with the Chinese authorities.
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Beijing (CNN)Beijing-based film director Huang Han has had one of the worst weeks of his life, courtesy of the Chinese government's strict censors.
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Xi's vanishing act has not gone unnoticed in China, where many are asking questions on social media -- most of which are swiftly deleted by censors.
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On the other hand, government censors are hard at work scrubbing online posts that call for freedom of speech in the wake of Li's death.
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Iran's government in fact has censored most social media platforms in the country, with many Iranian users forced to use software to evade domestic censors.
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In Vietnam, journalists didn't have to submit their stories to military censors for clearance as they had during World War II and the Korean War.
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That may be in part because, thanks to the unsleeping censors who guard the Great Firewall of China, many know nothing of the extradition debate.
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But the move exacerbated employees' concerns that management at Google censors honest feedback and tries to bury internal controversies without fixing problems at their root.
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Instead of trying to eliminate the LGBT themes within the film, filmmaker Fan said the censors have honed in on its more explicit sexual elements.
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In recent months, United States lawmakers have expressed concerns that TikTok censors video content at Beijing's behest and shares user data with the Chinese authorities.
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And in 2014, censors took action when Winnie-the-Pooh comparisons resurfaced after an awkward handshake between Mr. Xi and Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
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Shanghai's annual Pride Festival has run openly and unhindered for the last 2000 years, and yet the government routinely censors gay content in the media.
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He showcased avant-garde film, fought censors (he was arrested) and helped create an alternative infrastructure, like the artist-run distributor the Film-Makers' Cooperative.
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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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Blame game When the withdrawal of the extradition bill was finally announced this month, Chinese censors ordered the news downplayed online and in state media.
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Trump supporters misspelled the hashtag in hopes of defeating Twitter's "censors" Trump supporters misspelled the hashtag in hopes of defeating Twitter's "censors" Donald Trump supporters who believe Twitter, Google and Facebook are suppressing pro-Trump news have have taken matters into their own hands by using a hashtag with a deliberate misspelling — #HillaryForPrision — in hopes of tricking algorithms that might otherwise be censoring the #HillaryforPrison meme.
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A spokesman for Sina, which runs China's Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo, told Reuters it censors and deletes posts according to its code of conduct.
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Every weeknight, we'll be cutting through the noise to bring you the day's global and national news our way—no anchors, no ads, and no censors.
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But, Kramer tells me, leaders at Google, Facebook, and Apple have said that this would require them to be "censors," in violation of the First Amendment.
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Plenkers regarded graffiti as a medium for resisting the indoctrinating force of East German censors, likely because he witnessed graffiti speaking of and for the streets.
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Individual users in China regularly deploy coded language to talk about sensitive subjects, even in their private text messages, but censors are also quick to adapt.
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The regulations demand that online platforms hire a minimum of three "professional censors" to remove videos of what the organization considers to be "abnormal" sexual activity.
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Chinese internet censors have filtered the platform for nearly a decade, and the government aborted a short-lived deal to open a local subsidiary last year.
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"If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their way on his Serena Williams cartoon, our new politically correct life will be very dull indeed."
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Censors have embarked on a fresh effort to block local and foreign websites that carry criticism of him, a grave crime under Thailand's lèse-majesté laws.
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China's cyber-censors can suspend internet or social-media accounts if their users send messages containing sensitive terms such as "Tibetan independence" or "Tiananmen Square incident".
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It's got a million Uighurs in concentration camps, it censors its internet, and President Xi Jinping is increasing the level of autocracy and centralization of power.
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The mainstream press is dominated by "Cho-joong-dong", a triumvirate of conservative newspapers that toes the state line and self-censors on contentious nationalist issues.
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China's ruling Communist Party has long policed news content in print and online, and employs an army of censors to scrub sensitive information from the web.
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A local Smokey Bones manager who asked to remain anonymous said he personally censors comments he feels are inappropriate but said it's possible other managers don't.
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The selective aggression of the self-appointed censors uses media as a platform to distort social context and manipulate public opinion about culture, particularly the arts.
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Monica Bickert was facing questions from the House Judiciary Committee on whether the social media giant — along with YouTube and Twitter — censors conservative voices, when Rep.
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For some reason, that phrase was bleeped out, leading many to conclude that censors must have assumed McDormand was gearing up to say something else entirely.
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While the NBC censors might have been a little too anxious during McDormand's speech, the actress has been giving bleep-free and inspiring speeches for years.
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Chinese censors have been working hard to erase or block news of the protests, wary that any large public rallies could inspire demonstrations on the mainland.
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It's a web app, accessible through your phone's browser, and thus a platform that completely bypasses any prudish (or legally cautious) censors in anyone's app store.
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Ms Padukone's head is probably safe, and "Padmavati" will, in all likelihood, still be released after its makers agree to some small changes with government censors.
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Some of the explicit calls for violence discovered by BuzzFeed News were taken down — albeit months after they were posted — but many posts evaded Facebook's censors.
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They may even take their act onstage, in which case the censors should hover over the bleep button like a blimp over a football game. 4.
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Whether the censors were quick enough to bleep colorful language or a curse got through to the broadcast, we won't be forgetting these speeches anytime soon.
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Still, censors blocked access to the term "Shanghai stock market" and to the index numbers themselves on microblogs, along with other obscure references to sensitive issues.
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But roughly two minutes of Obama's remarks addressing host DeGeneres' contribution to the LGBT community were cut out by state censors, as first reported by GayStarNews.
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But it would be a mistake to require Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or others of our many diverse websites to become state-sponsored censors of free expression.
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Just as the school board censors Once Upon a Mattress, the filmmakers censored the movie version of Speech & Debate by removing the sex scandal surrounding Healy.
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The Golden Globes censors might not have seen the humor in Jonah Hill's onstage bit as the bear from The Revenant, but Leonardo DiCaprio definitely did.
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YouTube can add kids channels, scanning services, and even human censors but trust me: your four year old is eventually going to hit stuff like this.
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"The censors probably used a few keyword searches to locate just enough articles to make a nice, long list to impress their superiors," Xu's post said.
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It is rumoured that Google Play, its app store for Android smartphones, may arrive in China soon (which would require the firm to kowtow to censors).
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A Toutiao spokesperson told media on Wednesday that Tik Tok would set up a team of 20 censors in Indonesia charged with monitoring and sanitizing content.
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Hawks argue that TikTok gives the government in Beijing access to data on millions of Americans and that it censors content the regime does not like.
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One of the fastest rising Chinese startups of last year had a bumpy ride into 2018 after falling foul of China's internet censors for the first.
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Among the 508 people polled, fondness for Mr Jiang was balanced by disapproval of Mr Xi. Censors have tried to purge toad-worship from the internet.
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Facebook previously reported that at least 300,000 of those posts initially made it onto the platform, where they could be copied and tweaked to avoid censors.
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People are speculating that the app has been blocked by the country's notorious content censors, after its participation in an LGBTQ awareness event in Shanghai recently.
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In a sign of government irritation at the unauthorized distribution, censors reached into private WeChat social media accounts on Tuesday and deleted copies of the directive.
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Cheeky netizens in China have often linked Pooh to Xi, claiming there is an uncanny resemblance between the two and provoking the wrath of Chinese censors.
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What we're interested in, for this week's Giz Asks, are the governments that do actively censor their internet—specifically, the one that censors it most aggressively.
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Tactics used to squelch pornographers set precedents that can enable overzealous censors to go after artists, educators, libraries, and anyone else they consider inflammatory or obscene.
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CNN hasn't been able to independently verify the footage, which was posted to Weibo by a concerned citizen, and has since been deleted by government censors.
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Anxious to suppress criticism, and maintain an appearance of mass support, the Communist Party's censors have scoured the internet and social media for content deemed subversive.
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Having been largely underground since emerging in the 2015s, and the frequent target of government censors, hip-hop, it seemed, had finally gone mainstream in China.
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But government censors have been squelching online riffs of another moment from the gathering: a reporter's eye roll over another reporter's fawning question to an official.
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When the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released in China in March, the censors cut all references to his same-sex relationships and H.I.V. diagnosis.
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Greater racial diversity within the publishing industry might obviate the need for sensitivity readers entirely (and spare us commentary that casts people of color as censors!).
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Now one of the last survivors, Microsoft's Bing search engine, appears to have joined them — even though the American company already censors its results in China.
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LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought in 2016, censors content in China, and Airbnb coordinates with local authorities to provide access about who is staying at its listings.
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Chinese social media sites are policed more heavily than normal during important political events, with negative or sensitive matter swiftly blocked or removed by internet censors.
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Left largely unregulated and free to innovate — on condition that they cooperate with government censors — the New China's private-sector tech giants have made stunning advances.
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WeChat's censors — which monitor blacklisted characters and use "optical character recognition" to scan images or screenshots — immediately started blocking messages that included text from the interview.
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When these channels report on the protests in Hong Kong, censors cut the feed to avoid any scenes being shown that might embarrass the mainland authorities.
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But our tech columnist writes that, if it does decide to abide by Chinese censors, it would mark a new era for Google — one of conventionality.
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Instead, the world's most sophisticated censors, including Russia and China, have spent a decade pioneering tools and techniques that are better suited to the internet age.
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Chinese censors have blocked news reports and images that present the protesters' yearning for democracy and their fear of being subsumed into the mainland's authoritarian maw.
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That means it's key for Hollywood studios to do all they can to ensure that their tentpoles can pass the standards of the country's strict censors.
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Like Rossini, Mozart, working with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, softened the sharpest edges of the text's anti-royalist barbs to pass muster with Austrian censors.
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This weekend it moved to block apps used to evade the country's internet censors, a decision that fits with Beijing's recent crackdown on unapproved online content.
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Facebook's website remains banned in China, which strictly censors foreign news outlets, search engines and social media including content from Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
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Still, the character is not without controversy: She drew the ire of Chinese censors earlier this year when she became a symbol of rebellion in China.
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Companies like Marriott, Zara and Delta all had their websites blocked by China's censors in January after authorities found they listed Taiwan as a separate country.
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Mr. Farhadi does so in subtle ways, mastered by those in Iran who want to criticize, but not so harshly as to be silenced by censors.
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Indicatively, the Chinese censors rejected four of the 100 works destined for the opening displays — a decision met with circumspection by the Pompidou's President Serge Lasvignes.
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Censors forced Apple to shut down its online book and film stores just six months after launching, the New York Times reported last year, citing sources.
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Still, the character is not without controversy: She drew the ire of Chinese censors earlier this year when she became a symbol of rebellion in China.
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China's censors have worked hard to prevent information about the Hong Kong protests from spreading broadly, although word of them has been seeping into the mainland.
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China's censors have worked hard to prevent information about the Hong Kong protests from spreading broadly, although word of them has been seeping into the mainland.
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Petersen said policing hate speech is only going to grow more difficult, as users have figured out ways to share their posts without tipping off censors.
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Here you have a country that suppresses free speech and censors information allowing use of what the rest of the world knows as the information superhighway.
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For a time, internet censors even tried to stop use of the phrase "empty chair": the object that represented his absence at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo.
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The actress was bizarrely bleeped during her Golden Globes acceptance speech after the censors were triggered for words like "tectonic shift" and the movie's studio Fox Searchlight.
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" Many also expressed cynicism and anger at Chinese censors: "The SAPPRFT (China's censorship board) really has nothing better to do — they want to control everything people see!
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Photo: APFacebook's consistent lack of transparency has helped fuel the pernicious notion that the company deliberately censors conservative views, and the problem has reached a boiling point.
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The Tanzanian government is largely cracking down on speech critical of President John Magufuli, but censors have also started targeting content considered sexually obscene or hate speech.
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While it's not the only cloud service available to Iranians, Google AppEngine could provide Iranians access to circumvention technologies and VPNs that hide their traffic from censors.
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Despite the best efforts of the government's internet censors, social media have provided unprecedented opportunities for the disaffected to join forces and put pressure on the party.
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Censors are responding to real problems: social media has increasingly been "weaponized," in Owono's words, to attack minority groups in countries like Myanmar, India, and Sri Lanka.
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A documentary on China's air pollution, released in 2015 by a Chinese journalist, was scrubbed by censors from Chinese websites after it attracted more than 200m views.
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AI techniques are perfect for finding patterns in the massive amounts of data that Chinese censors must handle in order to maintain a grip on the citizenry.
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While they often wear hip-hop clothes and feature rapping in the background, the focus is no longer on rap performances, making it more palatable to censors.
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In 2012, censors briefly blocked access to the search term "Shanghai Stock market" after the index coincidentally fell exactly 64.89 points on the anniversary of the massacre.
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Censors are also paying more attention to content they regard as "lowbrow": material deemed licentious, sexist or likely to encourage what the party regards as immoral behaviour.
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The office is one of many Western media projects working to outwit the censors who seek to suppress all but the official discourse of Iran's Islamic Republic.
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Singapore's censors gave the film a PG rating, meaning it is deemed suitable for all ages, with the caveat that parents are advised to accompany their children.
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IF YOU LOOK AT THE SPACE THEY WENT AFTER, THEY WENT AFTER MORE OF THE CENSORS, AND I'LL CALL IT THE EDGE DEVICES THAT AREN'T HEAVILY COMPUTE.
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The young censors in the Tianjin office – or "auditors" – work for Beijing ByteDance Technology Co, better known as Toutiao, a popular and fast-growing news feed app.
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There is little evidence showing Google censors right-leaning voices in a systematic way, but Google and other tech firms publicize limited internal data to begin with.
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China sets strict quotas on the number of foreign films it allows in theaters and online, and all titles are subject to approval from the country's censors.
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"The people are the only censors of their governors", he wrote, and "even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution".
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The report, published today, sheds light on how powerful surveillance has forced many activists underground, while underscoring the importance of encryption as a way to evade censors.
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Ms. Meir's public acceptance of the invitation led Israeli military censors to release far more information about the failed sabotage operation than the public had previously known.
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"Paths of the Soul" is rare in several respects, not least that it is a depiction of Buddhism in Tibet that has passed muster with Chinese censors.
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China heavily censors foreign films and television and is increasingly catered to by filmmakers as it's set to displace the US as the top consumer of film.
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Jinri Toutiao, one of China's most popular news feed apps and a key Baidu rival, is among the apps to have been punished by censors this year.
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"Can I still say Winnie the Pooh?" posted several users on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, on Tuesday, testing censors by adding images of Xi and Pooh.
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"Taiwan's OhBear is dismayed at the ban slapped on his cousin Winnie's latest film by censors in China," it said, referring to its tourism mascot 'Oh Bear'.
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Given Mr. Krymov's pedigree — his father, the renowned director Anatoly V. Efros, had been subject to Soviet censors — it was no surprise that he felt that urgency.
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The company recently pledged to nearly double its army of censors to 7,500, up from 4,500, in response to criticism of a video posting of a murder.
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"Sixty-four hectares of the slope collapsed ... Our censors did not sound early warning because they are for tectonic activity not volcanic activity," spokesman Rahmat Djamaluddin said.
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XL artists have turned down ad campaigns, flipped off Super Bowl cameras, alluded to incest, rapped about rape, and drawn the ire of censors across the globe.
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I get it, it's a delicious irony; one of the lawless parts of the internet combining forces with a company that aggressively monitors and censors its users.
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So far, 15 people have been detained, including the company's chairman, Gao Junfang, but the reaction on China's social media was fast and fierce before censors intervened.
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TikTok, the viral video-sharing app, has raised concerns in the US over allegations it censors content at the request of the Chinese government, including political videos.
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But it was a reflection of simmering dissent among Chinese citizens, and of a willingness to speak out publicly by those outside the reach of government censors.
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Rodriguez's pugnacious late-1960s strips paid tribute to provocative publisher EC Comics, and answered its censors, while taking cues from Marvel's superhero comics and Marlon Brando films.
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China: "The Eight Hundred," a patriotic drama of soldiers resisting the Japanese invasion in 1937, has become the latest film to seemingly fall afoul of Chinese censors.
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This requires censors for the departments of motor vehicles to hold up a word in the mirror, and to stay on top of current slang and slurs.
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Dutch photographer Henk Wildschut, whose work explored the themes of food production in large population countries, was bewildered by the photos that the censors chose to remove.
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But Chinese internet users brought the story back to life, using emojis, morse code and obscure languages to render the interview in ways that would evade censors.
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It is the brainchild of the country's most celebrated independent filmmaker, Jia Zhangke, whose own work — gritty, violent, politically tinged — has fallen afoul of the censors before.
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The ceremony began on a frothy and obscene note, as the returning host, the British comedian Ricky Gervais, cracked numerous jokes that were bleeped by NBC censors.
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Twenty-five years ago this month, the Soviet Union, where unquestioning first graders dutifully ran in gas masks and censors scrambled to protect citizens from themselves, collapsed.
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Ms. Regina performed it "in a manner so soul-stirring and magisterial," Mr. Bosco said, that audiences knew what the song meant, even if the censors didn't.
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Even LinkedIn, which played ball with Chinese censors two years ago in order to get into the country, has had trouble getting traction with a local audience.
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Online statements and a petition campaign in support of freedom of speech have been trending on China's internet — and swiftly deleted by the government's army of censors.
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Despite his best efforts to the contrary, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong may have come off as quite the American Idiot to NHL TV censors.
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Local media reported on July 5 that Tik Tok had promised to set up a team of 20 censors in Indonesia charged with monitoring and sanitizing content.
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And government censors left unredacted details from a classified psychological examination of Mr. Nashiri that was conducted in 2012 as part of the commission case against him.
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The state censors shut down Munch's first major show, in Berlin, in 1892, but it made his name, and was followed by many more shows in Germany.
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The death on Thursday of China's most prominent political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, set off a frenzied effort by government censors to block online discussion of his legacy.
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Chinese censors have worked hard to erase or block news of the Hong Kong protests, wary that any large public rallies could inspire protests on the mainland.
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These presentation choices make the point that what happened is fuzzy, refracted through a particular lens of one man's experience, and even further mediated by government censors.
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Independent production companies in Cuba operate in a legal limbo, getting little or no funding from the state and often struggling to get their movies past the censors.
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"Almost every journalist in Myanmar self-censors on anything relating to Rakhine [the province in which the persecuted Rohingya lived] because of this Reuters case," the group said.
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And the news that an Alabama movie theater, Mother Russia, and Malaysian censors are seeing eye-to-eye over banning a Disney film has a novelty to it.
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Chinese Censors Have Apparently Blocked 'Winnie the Pooh' Over a Silly MemeWinnie the Pooh, the adorable cartoon bear with an obsession for honey, has been censored in China.
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And if you've got a bone to pick with Instagram over the double standard that censors women's nipples (and not men's), you'll want to follow this new account.
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Prominent YouTubers like LGBTQ-activists Tyler Oakley and Gigi Gorgeous also called foul, saying even their most innocuous videos got caught up in the restricted mode's hyperactive censors.
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Although Facebook's community guidelines allow users to post artworks featuring non-photographic nude figures, the algorithm that monitors content and reports it to human censors is notably fussy.
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The authorities this year have shuttered social media accounts for reasons that range from posting lewd content or sensationalist celebrity gossip to articles deemed politically incorrect by censors.
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Alas, the thaw was to freeze back over, and the intractable Iosselliani would emigrate to France rather than continue attempting to push his luck with the Moscow censors.
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