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Google 'experiment' blocks Australian news from local searches

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 04:44 PM

The Australian Financial Review reported that Google was blocking several major commercial news outlets including its masthead, News Corp papers and Guardian Australia from a small number of search users.   Read more »

Trump throttled press freedom, journalists say

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 11:02 PM

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Maria Ressa, who heads a Philippine news website known for its scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte, and Sonny Swe, CEO of Frontier Myanmar, told a Reuters Next panel that press freedom had deteriorated sharply. Read more »

Censorship umano ng Facebook, pinaiimbestigahan sa Senado

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 05:55 PM

Sa isang resolusyon sa Senado, hiniling ni Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa na imbestigahan ang censorship ng social media giant para masiguro na hindi nalalabag ang kalayaan sa pananalita o freedom of speech sa Pilipinas. Read more »

Bato wants probe of Facebook takedown of accounts linked to cops, soldiers

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 10:38 AM

Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa has filed a resolution urging the Senate to investigate the removal of some pro-government and anti-communist pages on Facebook, saying the move may be violating Filipinos' right to free speech. Read more »

Partisan? Cayetano vows House probe vs Facebook after Palace cries 'censorship'

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 09:03 PM

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday urged Facebook to "introspect" and "reflect on the soundness of its actions" after the Philippine government tagged as "censorship" its move to take down propaganda networks allegeldy linked to the Philippine military.   Read more »

Pagbabanta ni Duterte vs Facebook tinawag na 'censorship' ng grupo

Jorge Cariño, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 07:18 PM

Ikinabahala ng isang human rights group ang banta ni Pangulong Duterte sa Facebook.  Read more »

Duterte gov't mulls forming own social media fact-checking team

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 03:08 PM

The Philippine government could soon have its own fact-checking team.   Read more »

Duterte admin claims Facebook censorship of Philippine government

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 03:00 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's administration claimed Tuesday that Facebook is imposing censorship in the Philippines after the social media giant took down several propaganda networks in support of the popular leader and his allies. Read more »

Paano nilabanan ng mga 'artista ng bayan' ang martial law?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 21 08:53 PM

Kuwent ni Ricky Lee, censorship ang pinakamatinding kalaban ng film industry noong martial law. Read more »

OPINION: How fake democrats control and repress media

Robert Labayen
Posted at Sep 02 12:25 AM

They don’t even have to shoot journalists anymore. Read more »

Eyeing big China box office, Hollywood bows to censorship: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 06 02:26 AM

The lure of the massive Chinese market has led Hollywood to readily self-censor its films to please Beijing, according to a new report by Pen America, an anti-censorship group. Read more »

Three Beijing activists missing after preserving virus articles online

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 27 09:27 PM

Three Beijing-based internet activists have disappeared and are believed to be detained by police for archiving censored coronavirus news stories online, according to a relative. Read more »

Facebook blocks Singapore anti-govt page, slams misinformation law

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 18 10:39 PM

Facebook on Tuesday blocked the page of an anti-government website in Singapore following a demand from authorities but slammed the "disproportionate" use of a controversial law against online misinformation. Read more »

Turkey lifts ban on Wikipedia

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 16 07:14 AM

A Turkish court on Wednesday lifted a ban on Wikipedia after almost three years.    Read more »

'South Park' creators issue mock apology over China censorship

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 08 04:51 PM

 The creators of "South Park" have issued a mock apology to China after censors scrubbed their popular animation from the Chinese web. Read more »

Malaysia bans Jennifer Lopez movie 'Hustlers'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 06:04 PM

Malaysia has banned the movie "Hustlers", a Jennifer Lopez film based on the real-life exploits of a band of strippers who fleeced clients after having drugged them. Read more »

China detains critic of online censorship for 'provoking trouble'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 15 06:42 PM

BEIJING - China has detained a former journalist who gained prominence after urging the US to help "tear down" Beijing's online censorship regime during a 2014 meeting with top US diplomat John Kerry. Read more »

Journalists warned vs self-censorship

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 05 09:56 AM

A journalist on Monday cautioned media workers against self-censorship and the effects of climate of fear in press under the Duterte administration. Read more »

China launches new 'internet cleanup' campaign; more websites blocked

Huizhong Wu, Reuters
Posted at Jun 13 12:27 AM

BEIJING - China has launched a campaign to clean up its internet, state media said on Wednesday, amid a fresh wave of apparent censorship by authorities that has blocked more foreign media websites and shut down domestic accounts on social media. Read more »

China's robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears

Cate Cadell, Reuters
Posted at May 26 12:24 PM

Censors at Chinese internet companies say tools to detect and block content related to the 1989 crackdown have reached unprecedented levels of accuracy, aided by machine learning and voice and image recognition. Read more »