Censoring

“Guess who’s back on the news, it’s your favourite Republican hoods,” spits Móglaí Bap on Kneecap’s 2019 track, Get Your Brits Out – a roiling, riotous tune, rapped in both English and Irish, in which the trio imagine a drug-fuelled night out with DUP politicians.“Favourite Republican hoods” is a cheeky yet apt descriptor for how the provocative, satirical Irish-language rap group have been received this year. Kneecap became the surprise stars of Sundance film festival, where their biopic – a semi-fictional origin story…

The US senator Elizabeth Warren issued a letter on Thursday to Mark Zuckerberg demanding information relating to allegations of suppression of pro-Palestine content on Meta platforms.Warren cited a statement co-signed by more than 90 human rights and civil rights organizations and listed various media reports and concerns about Meta’s censorship, removal and mistranslation of Palestine-related content since Hamas attacks on Israel escalated conflict there in October.“Amidst the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel,…

Robert De Niro Miffed As Apple Censors His Anti-Trump Remarks At Gotham Awards! (Picture Credit: IMDb) Robert De Niro has always been vocal about issues related to public interests and has never shied away from expressing his political views. On Monday night, the actor took the stage at the 2023 Gotham Awards in New York City to introduce the historical icon and creator tribute award for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, in which he also features in a pivotal role along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily…

Robert De Niro was left unimpressed at the Gotham Awards last night after parts of his speech criticizing Donald Trump were edited from the teleprompter without his knowledge.Introducing an award for the latest Martin Scorsese film, Killers of The Flower Moon, produced by Apple Studios in which he stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, De Niro looked confused as the words on the autocue didn’t line up with his planned speech.After realizing his criticism of Trump was removed, De Niro took his phone from his pocket and read…

VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report. The findings, revealed in a report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, are some of the clearest examples yet illustrating Russia’s aggressive effort to use its ground war to justify even greaterclampdowns on online political…

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Rusby Contreras-Díaz was scrolling through a biodiversity database, looking at places where people had spotted margays and jaguars, when she noticed something odd: Every location had an uncertainty of 30 kilometers. Contreras-Díaz—a mammologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico—had hoped to use the observations to map where the two carnivores were found in Mexico. But the uncertainty in the data gave her pause. The observations were from…

The 17th century rector of St Alban’s College in Valladolid, Spain, must have rolled his eyes at the size of the book he had to review for the library. The Jesuit seminary, known as the English College because it produced missionaries committed to the reconversion of England to Catholicism, had received a 900-page volume of Shakespeare’s plays.William Sankey prepared his quill and began the long work of censoring ungodly, anti-Catholic and otherwise unsuitable material. “Holy-day fools” – a jibe in the Tempest that seemed…

A new report this week claims that Apple has expanded censorship tools use in mainland China to include Hong Kong.According to a piece from The Intercept (opens in new tab) on Thursday, "Apple quietly expanded the use of Chinese company Tencent’s website blacklist to users in Hong Kong — and no one will answer questions about it."Sam Biddle reports an instance in December where Safari users in Hong Kong tried to load GitLab and received " a strange warning" claiming the site was blocked for user safety.""The access was…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The Federal Election Commission has decided to throw out a baseless GOP complaint accusing Google of unfairly sending Republican campaign emails to users’ Gmail spam more often than Democratic emails for alleged political gain. It turns out—as anyone with an email can attest—Republican campaignemails actually generally just read like annoying spam!In its complaint filed to the FEC, the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and National Republican…