Censorship

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry is drafting legislation to ban state institutions from purchasing "untrustworthy" equipment, after finding a censoring feature in a Chinese smartphone company's flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister at the Defence Ministry said.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had inbuilt censorship capabilities.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies accused YouTube and Telegram of censorship on Saturday after the video platform and messaging app restricted access to their anti-government voting recommendations for Russia's parliamentary election.

Apple and Google have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, after Russia accused the US tech firms of meddling in its internal affairs.

Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts.

The opposition party AIADMK in Tamil Nadu today objected to certain references about party stalwarts -- the late Mr MG Ramachandran and Ms J Jayalalithaa -- in the latter's multi-lingual biopic Thalaivi, and wanted the scenes deleted.

YouTube said it has a long held policy of not allowing accounts believed to be operated by the Taliban on its site, as social media companies faced questions about how they would handle the group that fast gained control of Afghanistan

YouTube has scored a win in its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe's top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove or block access to the content.

Microsoft on Friday said an "accidental human error" led to its search engine Bing not showing image results for the query "tank man" in the United States and elsewhere, after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.

China's internet companies have blocked users from sharing a lengthy article written by former Premier Wen Jiabao in tribute to his late mother, in an unexplained act of censorship against a senior member of the ruling Communist Party.

Clubhouse has become a sandbox for people tinkering with ways to win fans and make money with audio. Launched nearly a year ago, the invite-only iOS app — which has already encountered a censorship hiccup in China — is looking to establish itself as the standard-bearer for audio-only social media.

Oman blocked US audio app Clubhouse because it did not have the right permit, authorities said, but some activists described the move as a further erosion of freedom of expression in the Gulf state.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday underlined the need to censor "obscene" content on OTT (Over The Top) platforms and said the Centre is seriously thinking in this regard.

Russian lawmakers moved a step closer to allowing regulators to block internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube if they are deemed to have censored content produced by Russians.

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry is drafting legislation to ban state institutions from purchasing "untrustworthy" equipment, after finding a censoring feature in a Chinese smartphone company's flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister at the Defence Ministry said.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had inbuilt censorship capabilities.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies accused YouTube and Telegram of censorship on Saturday after the video platform and messaging app restricted access to their anti-government voting recommendations for Russia's parliamentary election.

Apple and Google have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, after Russia accused the US tech firms of meddling in its internal affairs.

Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts.

The opposition party AIADMK in Tamil Nadu today objected to certain references about party stalwarts -- the late Mr MG Ramachandran and Ms J Jayalalithaa -- in the latter's multi-lingual biopic Thalaivi, and wanted the scenes deleted.

YouTube said it has a long held policy of not allowing accounts believed to be operated by the Taliban on its site, as social media companies faced questions about how they would handle the group that fast gained control of Afghanistan

YouTube has scored a win in its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe's top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove or block access to the content.

Microsoft on Friday said an "accidental human error" led to its search engine Bing not showing image results for the query "tank man" in the United States and elsewhere, after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.

China's internet companies have blocked users from sharing a lengthy article written by former Premier Wen Jiabao in tribute to his late mother, in an unexplained act of censorship against a senior member of the ruling Communist Party.

Clubhouse has become a sandbox for people tinkering with ways to win fans and make money with audio. Launched nearly a year ago, the invite-only iOS app — which has already encountered a censorship hiccup in China — is looking to establish itself as the standard-bearer for audio-only social media.

Oman blocked US audio app Clubhouse because it did not have the right permit, authorities said, but some activists described the move as a further erosion of freedom of expression in the Gulf state.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday underlined the need to censor "obscene" content on OTT (Over The Top) platforms and said the Centre is seriously thinking in this regard.

Russian lawmakers moved a step closer to allowing regulators to block internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube if they are deemed to have censored content produced by Russians.