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News Thursday 31st March...

Middle East

Update: A poor choice of prospective menbers
Turkey demands that Germany censors satirical YouTube video about Erdogan

World Censorship

News of censors, censorship and press freedom from around the world.

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Recent World

Asia Pacific

30th Mar

Power Grab
Indonesia Broadcasting Commission demands the power to censor TV programmes before they air

East Europe

Update: Propaganda Control Center
Center for Monitoring Propaganda and Disinformation Online Set to Open in Russia

Asia Pacific

Update: Blocking the foreign internet
China publishes draft proposal for the authorities to block all websites not registered in China

Asia Pacific

Update: Bowing out
Editor of prominent Chinese newspaper resigns saying he's been bowing to government for so long, he can't stand it anymore

Asia Pacific

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Why China banned Winnie the Pooh and why it matters
A round up of recent Chinese internet censorship. By Jeremy Luedi

US News

29th Mar

Update: Small victory
US small ads website, Backpage.com, wins appeal with the court agreeing that the website is not responsible for the posts added by users

West Europe

26th Mar

Update: France demands that it should be the World's internet censor
France ludicrously claims the right to censor the World's internet and fines Google for not blocking Americans from viewing content censored in the EU

Asia Pacific

25th Mar

Banglasia
Film banned in Malaysia for depicting gay lifestyles

Asia Pacific

24th Mar

Censorship Foretold
Dystopian film about Hong Kong's future apparently banned by Bejing

Asia Pacific

21st Mar

Update: Police Suck
New Zealand police report Wicked Campervans to the censors over unpolitically correct slogans

US News

Updated: Contempt of Court
Congress get heavy with boss of Backpage.com after he claims constitutional rights to avoid state pressure against adverts for sex workers

Previous World

West Europe

20th Mar

Fewer freedoms, the state will take care of that
Geert Wilders on trial for inciting hatred against Dutch Moroccans

Asia Pacific

18th Mar

World Day Against Cyber Censorship
AdBlock replaces blanked adverts by anti-censorship campaign messages

East Europe

Update: Banning onions
Russia proposes to ban information about website blocking circumvention

Middle East

Update: Extreme censorship
Saudi internet censors block 600,000 websites

West Europe

16th Mar

Commented: Brought to Book
Irish book censor bans book for the first time in 18 years

Africa News

Updated: Art Attack
Kenyan censors get wound up by gay music video

Asia Pacific

Offsite Article: The godmother of manga sex in Japan
A recent UN report included manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC spoke to a leading female manga artist, Keiko Takemiya, attributed as a pioneer of sexually explicit manga

South Asia

15th Mar

Offsite Article: The Spectre of Censorship
Public response to silly censor cuts to the latest James Bond film has left India's censors shaken and stirred

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World Censors Index	Australia:	Film Classification Board
	China:	SARFT State Adminstration of Radio, Film and Television
	Germany:	Video & Game Censorship
	Hong Kong:	Home of Category III
	India:	CBFC Central Board of Film Certification
	Ireland:	IFCO Irish Film Classification Office
	Italy:	Film Censorship Committee
	Japan:	Eirin Eiga Rinri Iinkai (Film Classification and Rating Committee)
	Malta:	Board of Film and Stage Classification
	New Zealand:	OFLC Office of Film and Literature Classification
	Pakistan:	CBFC Central Board of Film Certification
	Singapore:	MDA Media Development Authority
	South Africa:	FPB Film and Publications Board
	Thailand:	Ministry of Censorial Culture
	UAE:	NMC National Media Council
	USA:	ESRB Entertainment Software Ratings Board
	USA:	MPAA The Motion Picture Association of America