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| Aussie News | A Lack of Transparency Australian censors refuse to explain how they censor adults depicted as under 18 | 2nd Feb |
| West Europe | Front Against Censorship Maltese anti-censorship Facebook group starts up | 2nd Feb |
| Americas | Controlling Proposed TV censor for Panama | 2nd Feb |
| Middle East | Turkishness Insults Europe Council of Europe unimpressed by Turkeys repressive censorship law | 1st Feb |
| Aussie News | Christian Games Baddies Australian Christian Lobby come out against the R18+ rating for games | 1st Feb |
| Middle East | Rights Abusers to Pay Compensation European Court orders Turkey to compensate journalists | 31st Jan |
| US News | Oral Stimulation of Censorial Dicks US school district removes dictionaries that define oral sex | 31st Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Court Trumps Religious Censors Malaysian court unbans book bout challenges facing muslim women | 31st Jan |
| West Europe | BEREC European-wide telecoms regulator starts up | 30th Jan |
| West Europe | Internet Stasi Petition against state internet censorship in Poland | 30th Jan |
| Aussie News | Little Tits at the Classification Board Australian censors ban small breasted models in their 20's | 30th Jan |
| Aussie News | Little Squirts at the Classification Board Australian censors ban female ejaculation | 27th Jan |
| West Europe | Day Time Porn to be Banned Berlusconi censorship proposals targeted at Murdoch's revenue | 27th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Classified as Backward Chinese censors will continue to insist that all films are suitable for kids | 27th Jan |
| World News | Music Freedom Day Music censorship and freedom of expression | 27th Jan |
| East Europe | An Image of a Nasty State Photographer charged with defamation of Uzbekistan | 27th Jan |
| Aussie News | The Great Australian Internet Blackout Australian websites publicise the proposed censorship of the internet | 26th Jan |
| South Asia | India's Poor Reputation India to complain about showing the life in Mumbai slums in a British TV documentary | 26th Jan |
| US News | The Case of the Crescented Swastika Minnesota trial about free speech and insulting cartoons | 26th Jan |
| Americas | Pissed Off by Customs Canadian Customs and its quarterly gay unfriendly banned list | 26th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | ####ing Google Google Nexus censors strong language in voice to text facility | 25th Jan |
| Americas | Chavez Speechless Venezuela closes TV stations that refuse to air the president's speeches | 25th Jan |
| Aussie News | Callous and Hostile Australian research finds porn a poor educator for youngsters | 25th Jan |
| Aussie News | Off to a T T-Shirts wind up Australian women's groups | 24th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | No Fun in Indonesia Exotic dancers arrested in Indonesia under the repressive anti-porn law | 24th Jan |
| US News | Acting Censor New US interim film censor announced | 23rd Jan |
| Aussie News | Music Video Prude Nutter Australian MP pushes for censored music videos | 23rd Jan |
| US News | Unsafe Research Hollywood films found to feature unsafe practices | 23rd Jan |
| World News | Free to Disagree Government asked about their stance on the OIC Defamation of Religion UN motion | 23rd Jan |
| US News | Command and Control Pentagon censors soldiers' access to the internet | 23rd Jan |
| US News | Justified Criticism Hilary Clinton criticised Chinese internet censorship | 22nd Jan |
| Aussie News | Conroy's a Pain Internet censorship likely to result in painful deaths | 22nd Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Ultimate Internet Censorship Xinjiang without internet since rioting in July | 22nd Jan |
| West Europe | Heavy Censors Rammstein banned from playing indexed songs at concert | 21st Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Playing the Self Censorship Game China's online games industry self censors pending state censorship | 21st Jan |
| Aussie News | Chilling Effects Google removes links to satirical wiki | 20th Jan |
| South Asia | 'Bloody' Censors Indian singer takes film censor to court | 20th Jan |
| Middle East | Free Speech Blocked Turkey criticised for censorial internet blocking | 20th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Repressive Domain China reviews ban on personal web sites | 20th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Shameless Philippines TV censor suspends talent show over supposedly vulgar quips from judge | 20th Jan |
| Aussie News | Losing the Consultation Game Michael Atkinson resigned to consultation favouring R18+ | 20th Jan |
| West Europe | Hands off the Net Italians to require government permission to upload videos to websites | 19th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | One Dimensional Censors China bans the general distribution of Avatar | 19th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Ur Nickd China now scanning SMS messages for supposedly offensive content | 19th Jan |
| West Europe | Gorging on Political Correctness Spanish parliament passes law banning body image adverts before the watershed | 18th Jan |
| West Europe | Saving their Bacon Danish campaign to outlaw bestiality | 18th Jan |
| Middle East | State Controlled Blogs Jordan court extends print controls to the internet | 18th Jan |
| West Europe | Case Dismissed French Supreme Court finds in favour of worker sacked for downloading 3 legal porn pictures | 18th Jan |
| East Europe | School of Politics Gritty Russian TV school drama winds up the politicians | 17th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Google Hacked Off Google set to quit China after attempts to hack into Chinese human rights activists' emails | 17th Jan |
| Middle East | The Soft War Iran bans contact with the BBC, Voice of America and more | 17th Jan |
| Middle East | Lots of Laughs Lebanon nutters whinge about TV comedies | 17th Jan |
| Middle East | Uncensored Censored Kuwait bans Egyptian movie over depiction of lesbians | 16th Jan |
| West Europe | One Dimensional Whingers Italian parents' group whinges at unrestricted Avatar film certificate | 15th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Balibo Appeal Journalist group to appeal Indonesian ban on the film Balibo | 15th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Hu Shuli Rare investigative journalism in China | 14th Jan |
| Aussie News | Serious about Sex Australian Sex Party has a word about the parliamentary christian fellowship | 14th Jan |
| Aussie News | Segregated from Reason South Australia finds easy offence in 18 rated Hollywood DVD covers | 13th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Sliding Backwards Amnesty International criticises Thailand | 13th Jan |
| US News | Rude Health Condom porn campaign extended to Florida | 13th Jan |
| Media Studies | Watching TV Shortens Life All enjoyable activity is already frowned upon or deemed unhealthy, so now researchers find that doing nothing is equally bad | 13th Jan |
| East Europe | Tajik Censorship Criticism banned as Tajikistan government prepare for elections | 13th Jan |
| East Europe | Enemies of the Internet Proposed new repressive internet law in Belarus | 12th Jan |
| Aussie News | No Merit Australian report recommends removing artistic merit defence from child pornography laws | 11th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Credited as Repressive China adds IMDB to its block list | 11th Jan |
| West Europe | 21st Century Reality Malta to update censorship legislation | 11th Jan |
| US News | Writhing Tentacles Extended version of Avatar set for DVD | 10th Jan |
| Asia Pacific | Leaving Fear Behind Tibetan film maker jailed for 6 years over documentary | 10th Jan |
| Middle East | Iranian Deviance from Human Rights Iran publishes long lists of websites that are illegal to access | 10th Jan |
| Africa News | Hard Times Kenya broadcasting laws come into force | 10th Jan |
| East Europe | Afternoons Filtered Out Russia to ban adult internet content in the afternoon | 9th Jan |
| Middle East | Demons in the UAE UAE bans the video game Darksiders | 8th Jan |
| Aussie News | Victorian Ku Klux Klan Australians wound up by Indian newspaper cartoon | 8th Jan |
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| News: Press Freedom 2007 2008 Discontinued | |
| News: World Censors: 2005 2006 2007 2008 Discontinued |
| World Censors Index | Malta Censors reveal their guidelines (Jan 2010) |
| South Africa Video game classification guidelines (June 2009) | |
| Singapore An interview with a Singaporean film censor (April 2009) | |
| Hong Kong Category III (Feb 2009) | |
| Ireland Recent developments in Irish film censorship (Dec 2008) | |
| China Shared Repression China issues detailed censorship rules for video sharing sites | |
| Australia Censoring the Insensible Australia's new censor outlines his approach (Oct 2007) | |
| Thailand Ministry of Censorial Culture (March 2007) | |
| New Zealand An Interview with Bill Hastings (Oct 2006) | |
| Italy Censorship of movies, video & TV (Feb 2006) | |
| Germany Video Censorship | |
| USA The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) | |
| Japan A Short Introduction to Japanese Censorship (offsite Oct 2006) |
Research |
Media: Hollywood films found to feature unsafe practices (Jan 2010) |
| Games: Brain Training. Research points out benefits of video games (Jan 2010) | |
| Music: Youngsters who like sex also like pop music (March 2009) | |
| Internet: Latest: Social Networking Addles Nutter Minds (Feb 2009) | |
| Television & Films: Latest: Violent Films Cut Crime (Jan 2008) | |
| Advertising Latest: Fair Game? Suitable advertising on websites popular with children (Dec 2007) |
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