Censorship

For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US, does a good impression of a 2020s tech executive. “Our mission,” he says…

Montana lawmakers voted 54-43 today to ban TikTok from operating in the state and forbid app stores from offering it for download. The legislation is likely to become law, which would make…

Pinsof says companies facing such legal threats would have little incentive to defend the free speech of their users if it helped them avoid litigation. “We’ve seen over and over in…

The US District court decision to block access to the abortion pill mifepristone has threatened the most common form of abortion. In his ruling, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk invoked the…

After Robert Frese posted a nasty Facebook comment about a police officer in 2018, police obtained a warrant to arrest him. This was the second time in six years that Frese was charged with…

The threat of Hollywood studios censoring movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party has long been a bipartisan talking point for U.S. lawmakers, including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.).…

Issued on: 11/04/2023 - 11:22 Egyptian authorities have since 2020 carried out a campaign to silence female social media…

At a recent event, Salman Khan shared that he believed OTT should be checked and content that includes vulgarity, swearing and nudity should be removed. The actor believed that the OTT…

At the launch of Filmfare Awards, Bollywood actor Salman Khan created quite a buzz by pressing on the need for censorship on OTT platforms. Salman stated how he thinks that “clean content”…

The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The blacklist includes…