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fromTheregister
1 day ago
World news

Iran all but vanishes from internet amid US-Israel strikes

Iran's internet connectivity has dropped to approximately 1 percent of normal levels, with near-total blackout affecting major cities amid military strikes and regional conflict.
fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
1 month ago
World news

Iran's Internet Blackout Continues Amid Reports Of Rising Death Toll

Iran has maintained a near-total nationwide Internet blackout for over two weeks, severely restricting communication and hindering verification amid deadly protests.
World news
fromTheregister
1 day ago

Iran all but vanishes from internet amid US-Israel strikes

Iran's internet connectivity has dropped to approximately 1 percent of normal levels, with near-total blackout affecting major cities amid military strikes and regional conflict.
fromJewish Telegraphic Agency
4 days ago

JewBelong's NYC taxi ads against antisemitism (and Mamdani) are taken down - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

JewBelong cofounder Archie Gottesman accused Somo of censoring Jewish voices "at the very moment antisemitism is surging." Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also condemned the ads' removal, saying, "If acknowledging that Jewish New Yorkers sometimes feel compelled to hide visible symbols of their identity is considered controversial, that should alarm all of us."
NYC politics
#press-freedom
fromFortune
1 week ago
World news

India's ban on an unflattering BBC documentary about Prime Minister Modi sparks resistance and illicit screenings | Fortune

fromFortune
1 week ago
World news

India's ban on an unflattering BBC documentary about Prime Minister Modi sparks resistance and illicit screenings | Fortune

US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago

This infamous school district banned 142 LGBTQ+ books just this year already - LGBTQ Nation

Katy Independent School District removed 142 LGBTQ+-themed books in January 2026, citing Texas Senate Bills 12 and 13 that restrict gender identity education and allow material challenges based on prohibited content links.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
6 days ago

"When You See This Sign...": The Power of Silence in Propaganda

Silence functions as a strategic propagandistic tool alongside language, enabling ideologies to spread through what remains unsaid rather than explicitly stated.
#academic-freedom
fromPhilosophynow
4 weeks ago
Philosophy

News: February/March 2026

A university review of race and gender course content led to removal of Plato passages from a syllabus, effectively banning Plato's Symposium and prompting protest and syllabus revision.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Frederick Wiseman Always Made His Point

Frederick Wiseman transformed documentary cinema by exposing institutional operations and human consequences through observational films that revealed systemic failures and provoked censorship.
fromThe Independent
1 week ago

17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

10 Cloverfield Lane Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr are locked in an underground bunker for the majority of this left-field sequel to Cloverfield, with thrilling results. In the film's final throes, Winstead's character exits the bunker, and finds that her captor was telling the truth about an alien invasion above - a twist that completely and ruinously dissipates the hard-earned tension that came before.
Film
Miscellaneous
fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
1 week ago

Putin Signs New Measure Tightening FSB Control Over Russian Internet

Russia granted the FSB authority to order internet shutdowns nationwide or regionally, removing provider liability and centralizing control under presidential decrees.
Berlin
fromThe Local Germany
1 week ago

Political drama overshadows Berlin Film Festival finale

A political dispute over comments about Israel dominated the Berlinale, prompting artist withdrawals, public condemnation, accusations of censorship, and festival leadership rebuttals.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

South Africa Pulls Out of Venice Biennale

South Africa withdrew from the 2026 Venice Biennale after its culture minister canceled a pavilion that would memorialize Palestinian grief in Gaza.
US politics
fromArchitectural Digest
1 week ago

What Gets Lost When Trump Removes Black History From Buildings

Removal of interpretive materials about enslaved people from the President's House risks erasing crucial historical context and prompted a court-ordered temporary reinstatement.
#berlinale
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Colbert Hosts Jon Ossoff in First Political Interview Since Talarico Dust-Up Senator Fumes About Censorship' in Trump's America'

So first of all, I led a team, ran a business, that exposed official corruption, war crimes, abuses of power all over the world. We worked with people who smuggled the truth out of repressive societies with authoritarian governments, places where opposition figures were rounded up and arrested. Places where journalists critical of the government faced official persecution, places where television hosts had to deal with official censorship, said Ossoff.
US politics
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A love letter to Beirut': Lana Daher on sifting 20,000 sources and 70 years of film to make Do You Love Me

Excavating suppressed archives and remembering wartime realities is essential to confront Lebanon's past, preserve collective memory, and challenge cultural erasure and censorship.
fromIndependent
1 week ago

'I would love to see the game not being played' - Stephen Bradley says Israel should not be in a position to face Ireland

Shamrock Rovers boss insists 'some things are bigger than football' as he adds support for Joanna Byrne in battle with Drogheda's US owners
Soccer (FIFA)
#fcc
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago
US politics

Trump admin tried to censor this pro-LGBTQ+ Stephen Colbert interview. It's backfiring big time. - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago
US politics

Trump admin tried to censor this pro-LGBTQ+ Stephen Colbert interview. It's backfiring big time. - LGBTQ Nation

fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Marx Arriaga: Why Mexico's top textbook official barricaded himself in his office for four days

Thank you, Marx Arriaga, for bringing social critique into the classroom to build a dignified future for our children, reads one of the 11 signs hanging outside the office that the former director of Educational Materials finally vacated on Tuesday, after four days barricaded inside. Arriaga received and signed the document notifying him of his removal from the post, then walked out of Mexico's Public Education Secretariat (SEP) in southern Mexico City and headed toward the Coyoacan station on Metro Line 3.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

CBS accused of corporate capitulation' amid row over Colbert interview with Democrat US politics live

The Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico, the network said in a statement. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. The Late Show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options.
US politics
US politics
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 weeks ago

EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea

The bill mandates invasive age verification and bans VPN access, forcing websites to collect sensitive data and effectively censor lawful speech for Wisconsin residents.
US politics
from6abc Philadelphia
2 weeks ago

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues

Groups sued, alleging National Park Service orders forced removal or censorship of exhibits about slavery, Indigenous peoples, civil rights, and climate science.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

God Of War Remakes Shouldn't Remove The Sex Minigames

The God of War remake may alter or remove original violent and sexual content from Kratos's early games, affecting character arc and player expectations.
US politics
fromIntelligencer
2 weeks ago

CBS Spikes Colbert's Talarico Interview In Latest Capitulation to Trump

CBS refused to air a scheduled interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, citing new FCC guidance narrowing talk-show interview exemptions.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

FCC You!' Stephen Colbert Flays CBS in Defiant Opener for Nixing His Interview with Democratic Lawmaker

CBS lawyers barred Stephen Colbert from interviewing Texas state representative James Talarico, citing FCC guidance on the equal-time rule from chairman Brendan Carr.
#immigrant-art
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Italian broadcaster accused of censoring Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in Winter Olympics coverage

Rai aired the Vitruvian Man with the genitals removed in Winter Olympics opening credits, triggering censorship accusations, political backlash, and parliamentary inquiries.
#telegram
#free-speech
#russia
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago
LGBT

Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago
LGBT

Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it - LGBTQ Nation

Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Deeply illogical': this man's life work could end homelessness and Trump is doing all he can to stop it

Housing First — unconditional housing plus supportive services — achieves about 85% retention and faces political censorship from federal authorities.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Iran Wants Him Arrested. He's Going Back Anyway.

Jafar Panahi's secret-made film portrays post-repression moral dilemmas and empathy toward a torturer while evading Iranian censorship and risking imprisonment.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Amy Sherald's Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art

According to a BMA spokesperson reached by Hyperallergic, attendance stood at 63,000 as of Monday, February 9, and is expected to peak at 75,000 by the time the show closes on April 5. That makes Sherald's mid-career survey the museum's most-attended show since 2000 - a remarkable feat considering that the BMA was not an original destination on American Sublime's itinerary.
Arts
fromConsequence
2 weeks ago

Bad Bunny: GOP Representatives Call for Investigation Into Halftime Performance

In a letter to the FCC chairman Brendan Carr imploring him to launch a probe, Florida Republican congressman Randy Fine wrote, "What Americans witnessed during the Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny was despicable and never should be allowed to be shown on television again... In America, our laws are not suggestions, and no matter what foreign language you speak, you must comply." Fine specifically cited the line "el perico es blanco" from Bad Bunny's song "NUEVAYoL," which is a reference to cocaine.
US politics
US politics
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

The Morning After: DOJ may face investigation over removal of ICE agent tracking apps

House Judiciary Committee requests DOJ communications with Apple and Google regarding removal of apps that shared sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

When I saw the Association of American Universities' rejection of the White House's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," I knew that the institutions invited to join the agreement were likely to reject it, too. At a time when organizational communication seems to be the province of PR firms, it is still true that a missive from a group representing some of our country's most prestigious research institutions carries substantial weight in U.S. higher education.
Higher education
US politics
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

HBCU Law School Not Allowed To Use The Word 'Black' For Black History Month Event - Above the Law

Florida policies and enforcement practices are effectively censoring the word 'Black' at a historically Black law school, chilling Black History Month promotion.
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

DOJ may face investigation for pressuring Apple, Google to remove apps for tracking ICE agents

House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has asked the US Department of Justice to turn over all its communications with both Apple and Google regarding the companies' decisions to remove apps that shared information about sightings of US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers. Several apps that allowed people to share information about where they had seen ICE members were removed from both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in October. Politico reported that Raskin has contacted Attorney General Pam Bondi on the issue and also questioned the agency's use of force against protestors as it executes the immigration policy set by President Donald Trump.
US politics
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

Conservative Christian group "disgusted" by Gordon Ramsay's funny new margarine ad - LGBTQ Nation

One Million Moms objects to a Gordon Ramsay I Can't Believe It's Not Butter TV ad for using censored profanity, calling it harmful to children and urging removal.
#lgbt-propaganda-law
fromQueerty
4 weeks ago
LGBT

Russian court rules a photo of rock band Queen in drag is LGBTQ+ "propaganda" - Queerty

fromQueerty
4 weeks ago
LGBT

Russian court rules a photo of rock band Queen in drag is LGBTQ+ "propaganda" - Queerty

Books
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Powerful institutions constrain freedom: offshore detention, digital censorship, and personal grief shape modern lives and resist straightforward legal or social remedies.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

Did Green Day Do Famous Anti-Trump American Idiot' Line At Super Bowl?

Green Day avoided anti-Trump lyrics during their Super Bowl LX performance, censoring one line while criticizing Trump and ICE at a separate pre-game event.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

It felt hypocritical': child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers' speeches

The tech-backed charity also edited out references to children feeling unable to stop using TikTok and Snap, social media exacerbating a devastating epidemic of isolation, and a passage questioning why people would want to spend years of their lives scrolling TikTok and binge-watching Netflix, the edits show. The 2026 iteration of the Childnet-run event takes place on Tuesday with more than 2,800 schools and colleges listed as supporters.
Public health
World news
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

'La cosa': In Cuba, this single phrase carries coded truths

Cubans use the phrase "la cosa" as a coded catch-all to express scarcity, hardship, and political caution in public conversation.
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

Trump Admin Doesn't Want Us to Call the Klansman Who Murdered Medgar Evers a Racist

On Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that several officials, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said NPS told them to remove visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and edit out details about Beckwith. Among the details reportedly flagged for removal: that Evers was found lying in a pool of blood after he was shot. The brochures referred to Beckwith as "a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens' Council."
History
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The 'Free Speech' Warriors Are Mighty Quiet. - Above the Law

For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was weaponizing its power to silence conservative speech. The evidence for this? Some angry emails from White House staffers that Facebook ignored. That was basically it. The Supreme Court looked at it and said there was no standing because there was no evidence of coercion.
US politics
Film
fromAnOther
3 weeks ago

Five Unsung Classic Films of the Iranian New Wave

The Iranian New Wave revolutionized 1960s Iranian cinema through allegory, realist narratives, and focus on marginalized voices, despite censorship and later suppression.
#tiktok
fromsfist.com
1 month ago
California

TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation

fromsfist.com
1 month ago
California

TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation

Music
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 weeks ago

CBS Grammy Censor Biffs It Hard Lets F-Bomb Get Through In Wild Messy' Speech

CBS censored a clean line in Lola Young's acceptance yet allowed her F-word; multiple performers used Grammy speeches to condemn Trump's immigration actions.
History
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 weeks ago

Black History Month centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources

Political pressure and removals of Black history exhibits have chilled public teaching, prompting activists and educators to intensify curricula, events, and new materials to preserve full Black history.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

The Information Networks That Connect Venezuelans in Uncertain Times

In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 3, the roar of bombs dropping from the sky announced the US military attack on Venezuela, waking the sleeping residents of La Carlota, in Caracas, a neighborhood adjacent to the air base that was a target of Operation Absolute Resolve. Marina G.'s first thought, as the floors, walls, and windows of her second-story apartment shook, was that it was an earthquake.
World news
#nintendo-switch
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

EU formally designates Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation

Repression cannot go unanswered, said Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, on Thursday. The paramilitary organisation has played a significant role in suppressing demonstrations in Iran. Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise, she wrote on X. Hannah Neumann, chair of the European parliament's delegation for relations with Iran, said the IRGC listing was a long-overdue political signal that massive violence and transnational repression will no longer go unanswered.
Europe politics
#iran
#nan-goldin
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

South Korea's 'fake news' law tests press autonomy

South Korea's revised media law empowers removal of online content, correction demands and heavy fines, raising concerns about free expression and government control.
Marketing
fromMarketing Dive
1 month ago

How Dollar Shave Club is calling out B.S. after a Super Bowl stiff arm

Dollar Shave Club launched a profanity-heavy "Bullshit Meter" campaign across CTV and digital after NBCUniversal rejected it for Super Bowl broadcast.
World news
fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
1 month ago

Iran's Internet Blackout Persists As One Report Says Protest Death Toll May Exceed 30,000

Iran's nationwide Internet blackout persists over 400 hours while reported protest fatalities vary widely, with some estimates exceeding 30,000 and independent verification limited.
World news
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

LinkedIn ends operations in China after self-censorship backlash

LinkedIn will end its Chinese social platform and replace it with a China-only job board after stricter compliance demands and blocking of US journalists' access.
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Two Chinese Men Arrested for 'Gay Pandas' Image

An AI-manipulated photo of two pandas showing same-sex behavior has led to two Chinese men being detained by local authorities. The 29-year-old and 33-year-old were arrested for "maliciously" associating queerness with certain Chinese cities, according to The Washington Post. The men allegedly shared the AI-manipulated image of pandas at the "panda capital" of Chengdu, which is in the country's southwest region.
LGBT
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Newsom, on world stage, accuses Trump of trying to suppress dissent

Is it surprising the Trump administration didn't like my commentary and wanted to make sure that I was not allowed to speak?
US politics
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

On Censorship by Ai Weiwei review are we losing the battle for free speech?

Ai Weiwei persistently provokes authority and challenges Chinese cultural norms through confrontational art and activism, facing censorship and state repression.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Satirical "gay pandas" post lands two men in detention - LGBTQ Nation

Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Western China and the country's fourth largest city, has for years been referred to as "Gaydu" by Chinese millennials wise to the cosmopolitan city's reputation as China's "gay capital". Recent detentions are evidence that the government's tolerance for Chengdu's notoriety as a gay hub is fraying. Two Chinese men who allegedly produced and shared an AI-manipulated photo of two "gay pandas" from Chengdu - known as China's "panda capital", as well - have been detained
LGBT
MMA
fromSherdog
1 month ago

Sean Strickland Explains Why He 'Hates' Filming With the UFC

Sean Strickland calls UFC promotional videos fraudulent and says the organization censors his unedited remarks, turning filming into a scripted chore.
US politics
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept quoting its movies at it

Disney deleted a Threads prompt after followers replied with anti-fascist quotes from franchise films aimed at the current administration.
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