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| World News | Olympic Sport of Repression China assured of gold, internet blocked and athletes gagged | 9th May |
| Aussie News | Gordon Ramsay Stirs It Australian parliament inquires into strong language on TV | 9th May |
| US News | Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act US law proposed requiring age verification for buying video games | 8th May |
| World Censors | Blown Away by Californication New Zealand Broadcasting Standards whinges about bad taste | 7th May |
| US News | Taking the Tango Challenge The years most challenged books in US school libraries | 7th May |
| US News | Jihad Against a Dodgy Council First steps in lawsuit against council using building regs to censor | 7th May |
| World Censors | Low Morale Amongst Morality Police Infighting on the Philippines film censor board | 7th May |
| Aussie News | Grand Theft Auto: Children's Version Australian cuts detailed | 6th May |
| World News | Praise be to Allah Malaysian catholics pass first hurdle to use the word 'Allah' | 6th May |
| EU News | Hard Going Ongoing court case re legality of hardcore DVDs in Ireland | 6th May |
| World Censors | Cuts and Bans Indian film censors, their guidelines and statistics | 6th May |
| Aussie News | Australia's Morality Police Police take time out from crime fighting to raid adult shops | 5th May |
| World Censors | Carry On Censor Court case to abolish Indonesian film censors fails | 5th May |
| Press Freedom | Freedom House Reports Press freedom has declined in the world overall | 5th May |
| World News | Grand Theft Freedom UAE ban GTA IV whilst New Zealand bans parents giving it to their kids | 4th May |
| Press Freedom | Puttin' the Boot into Cartoons Russian press censorship forces cartoonists to bow out | 4th May |
| US News | Censored 11 Old racially stereotyped Merrie Melody cartoons on YouTube | 4th May |
| World News | Arbitary Book Censorship Iran tells authors and publishers to self censor more | 4th May |
| US News | Bulls Balls Bullshit Florida looking to ban bulls balls | 4th May |
| World News | Repression 2.0 Totalitarian states creating the impression of ubiquitous surveillance | 4th May |
| World News | Dangerous Religious Element China holds bible seller in prison | 3rd May |
| US News | Explicitly Chilling Effect Challenging Oregon's book censorship law | 2nd May |
| World News | Olympic Filtering US senator suggests that Chinese will spy on Olympic internet usage | 2nd May |
| World Censors | Political Junk Indian film industry tires of health minister's dictates | 2nd May |
| World News | Grand Theft in Singapore Singapore pass Grand Theft Auto IV for adult only | 2nd May |
| World News | Drunk in Charge of a Blame Campaign Supporting international hype for Grand Theft Auto IV | 1st May |
| World News | Turkey Continues to Insult Free Speech Long awaited changes to insulting Turkishness are a damp squib | 1st May |
| World News | Still Discontent about YouTube Content Thailand admits it cannot take legal action against YouTube | 1st May |
| US News | Obscenity in the USA A summary of US obscenity cases brought in 2007 | 1st May |
| World Censors | Police Censors Thailand passed film classification law | 30th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Censorial Gymnastics Russia to widens definitions of libel to further extend press control | 30th Apr |
| World News | Elvis Lives Rockstar boss likens anti-games nutters to anti-Elvis nutters | 29th Apr |
| World News | Allah Heard in Court Malaysian catholics go to court to use the word 'Allah' | 29th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Licensed to Print Malaysia unbans Tamil newspaper | 29th Apr |
| World News | First Amongst Nutters New Zealand nutters get wound up by Grand Theft Auto IV | 28th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Olympic Hurdling Vietnamese blogger arrested after reporting Olympic torch protest | 28th Apr |
| World News | Extreme Concern Russia proposes an internet ban on extremist material | 28th Apr |
| US News | Credibility Theft Jack Thompson gets Miami to ban Grand Theft Auto IV bus adverts | 27th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Fouad Freed Saudi blogger freed | 27th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Contaminated by Censorship Tunisian weekly seized by police | 27th Apr |
| EU News | Sex Still Sells Sweden decides not to ban sexist advertising | 26th Apr |
| World News | Rape and Make Up Even the good guys are at it in Thai TV drama | 26th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Freedom of Expression Awards 8th Annual Awards from Index of Censorship | 26th Apr |
| World News | Naff Nutter Swiss politician sues games shop for selling Stranglehold | 25th Apr |
| US News | Liberty Bell Reveals Cracks Court tests the sidelining of free speech into designated zones | 25th Apr |
| World News | A Change on the Books Little Sisters to pass on the fight with Canadian Customs | 25th Apr |
| EU News | Minor Euro Games EU pushes for more to protect children from games | 24th Apr |
| US News | US Freedom Not Worth Fighting For Shameful politician sets out to ban Playboy from troops | 24th Apr |
| US News | Nutter Bait Grand Theft Auto IV brings out the nutters | 24th Apr |
| World Censors | Discriminatory Themes Singapore gays unimpressed by being lumped in with criminals | 24th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Licensed to Censor Malaysia bans Tamil newspaper | 23rd Apr |
| World News | Bible Seller for the High Jump Bible publisher re-arrested in China | 23rd Apr |
| Press Freedom | Responsible Journalism Sudan ends press censorship | 23rd Apr |
| Press Freedom | Celebrity Acrobatics Russian paper printing rumour of Putin's divorce is closed | 21st Apr |
| Press Freedom | Press Duress 6 Sudan newspapers seized for resisting state censorship | 21st Apr |
| Press Freedom | No Appeal in China Hu Jia blocked from lodging an appeal | 20th Apr |
| EU News | Free Speech Bleeding to Death? Brigitte Bardot on trial for criticising religious slaughter | 20th Apr |
| World News | BayWords Blog with Pirate Bay without fear of censorship | 20th Apr |
| EU News | Inciting New EU Laws EU agree to offence of inciting terrorism via the internet | 19th Apr |
| World News | Ominous in Russia Registration of all Wi-Fi devices and vague content control of internet | 19th Apr |
| World News | Turkishness Still Nowhere Near Europeaness Turkey barely changes free speech gag law | 19th Apr |
| Aussie News | Bullied by Teachers Australian take aim at Bully Scholarship Edition | 18th Apr |
| Aussie News | Stolen Childhood Australian censor details MA15+ decision for Grand Theft Auto IV | 18th Apr |
| Aussie News | Gangs of Nutters Australian TV programme to be investigated after nutters whinge | 18th Apr |
| World Censors | UAE Bans War UAE state issues fatwa against God of War | 18th Apr |
| Aussie News | Blind Leading the Blind Australian senators govern without being able to see the internet | 18th Apr |
| Aussie News | Less Game for More Bucks Australians not impressed by the children's version of GTA IV | 17th Apr |
| World Censors | Hastings Plays an Open Game Lack of Australian adult rating pushes adult games into 15 category | 17th Apr |
| Aussie News | Bingeing on Censorship Australia to follow French ban on pro-ana sites | 17th Apr |
| World News | Taliban Telly Ban Afghanistan reverting to old ways | 17th Apr |
| US News | A Lost Cinema Classic Credibility blown away about Marilyn Monroe film | 17th Apr |
| US News | Block Text FCC considering telecoms company's blocks on SMS services | 17th Apr |
| EU News | Fitna and Free EU will not develop new laws against blasphemy | 16th Apr |
| EU News | Thin End of the Wedge France parliament passes laws against encouraging anorexia | 16th Apr |
| US News | Kicking Butt John Stagliano launches Defend Our Porn website | 16th Apr |
| World Censors | Kissed by Repression Singapore censor fines cable company for lesbian kiss | 16th Apr |
| World News | Canadian Human Rights Commission backs off Lately seen to be defending the 'right' not to be offended | 16th Apr |
| Aussie News | In Close Proximity to Nutters Queensland to review legislation on sex shops | 16th Apr |
| World Censors | GTA IV: Children's Version New Zealand also treated like kids | 15th Apr |
| World Censors | Age Old Censorship Singapore introduces games classifications | 15th Apr |
| EU News | Shameful EU Parliamentarian Easily panders to the easily offended | 15th Apr |
| World Censors | Censorship Police Nigerian censorship board officials raid theatre | 14th Apr |
| World News | Valuing Repression Internet be decimated according to UAE values | 14th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Freer Press Pakistan to repeal Musharraf's press muzzle | 14th Apr |
| Press Freedom | Marathon Sentence for Chinese Blogger Zeng Jinyan speaks out on Hu Jia’s sentencing | 14th Apr |
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| World Censors Index | Censors: China Lost in Beijing Chinese film censors explain secret decision making (Dec 2007) |
| Censors: Australia Censoring the Insensible Australia's new censor outlines his approach (Oct 2007) | |
| Censors: Thailand Ministry of Censorial Culture (March 2007) | |
| Censors: New Zealand An Interview with Bill Hastings (Oct 2006) | |
| Censors: Ireland No longer at the cutting edge (July 2006) | |
| Censors: Italy Censorship of movies, video & TV (Feb 2006) | |
| Censors: Germany Video Censorship | |
| Censors: USA The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) | |
| Censors: Japan A Short Introduction to Japanese Censorship (offsite Oct 2006) |
Research |
Games: Latest: Relax! Research suggests that violent video games calm people down (April 2008) |
| Media Latest: Ten things wrong with the ‘effects model’ (April 2008) | |
| Music: Latest: Rap makes people sexist (Feb 2008) | |
| Television & Films: Latest: Violent Films Cut Crime (Jan 2008) | |
| Advertising Latest: Fair Game? Suitable advertising on websites popular with children (Dec 2007) | |
| Games: Latest: Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers: A Conceptual Analysis (Nov 2007) | |
| Sexualised Society: Latest: Psychological Harm in 'Sex Sells' Society (Feb 2007) |
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