Chinese viewers have been left outraged after three of their country’s streaming services censored the highly-anticipated Friends reunion. Services iQIYI, Youku and Tencent Video all acquired streaming rights for the blockbuster TV special, which was released worldwide on Thursday. While fans in other markets were treated to the full 104 minute show, the editions released in … Read more
Viewers have been warned about an ‘outright offensive’ character in the iconic movie Flash Gordon. The British Board of Film Classification has added a warning about Ming the Merciless, advising the audience that the character played by the late Swedish actor Max von Sydow is a ‘discriminatory stereotype’. The 1980 movie was reclassified as a 12A … Read more
Twitter and Facebook censor Trump by slapping warnings on his posts about ‘dangerous’ Supreme Court decision to allow late mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania which he says will cause ‘violence on the streets’ Both Twitter and Facebook flagged Trump’s posts about Pennsylvania mail-in voting on Monday night The President called it ‘dangerous’ that mail-in voting was … Read more
Gary Lineker has denied claims BBC‘s director-general Tim Davie ordered him to tone down his Tweets. The former England striker turned Match Of The Day presenter, 59, was the highest paid star on the BBC before he took a £405,000 pay cut, it was revealed this week. But he has denied ever being told to … Read more
Ministers must block attempts by Home Office lawyers to ‘censor’ mainstream news publications, warns Tory committee chairman Julian Knight wrote to Culture Minister John Whittingdale over proposed laws He also called for ‘tech levy’ on companies such as Facebook to pay news outlets The Home Office has said a ‘publishers’ exemption’ would create ‘loopholes’ By Glen … Read more
British universities are warned not to censor themselves or water down ideas to appease China amid fears Beijing could punish institutions that speak out on issues like Hong Kong China expert Kerry Brown said that offending Beijing was ‘never difficult’ He added that it has become even easier under the rule of President Xi Jinping … Read more
Dozens of Facebook employees have staged a walkout and senior Facebook employees have publicly criticized their boss Mark Zuckerberg over his decision not to take down incendiary posts by Donald Trump. The employees, who took the day off by logging into Facebook’s systems and requesting time off to support protesters across the country, also added … Read more
A bitter row over alleged censorship at The Guardian grew last night as it emerged a piece written by David Hockney was discussed at the highest level before being refused by the paper. The artist became embroiled in a row with the newspaper after it refused to publish his controversial opinion that smoking could protect … Read more
WeChat ‘monitors international users’ text messages to preemptively identify content to censor for its Chinese users’ The Citizens Lab studied how WeChat builds their database of blacklisted terms They found the company monitors international messages to preemptively identify potential images or content that should be banned in China The app creates a ‘hash’ code for … Read more