Censorship

"The current bastards in power are as insignificant as the ones then," one disgruntled critic tweeted.

teleSUR English has nearly 400,000 Facebook "likes." Their Facebook page went back up on Wednesday after speculation from its staff and readers of censorship by the social media giant.

The Chinese government is tightening its grip on popular culture with a new ban on hip-hop culture and actors with tattoos

The renowned book, "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander, is not allowed in two New Jersey state prisons, according to prison documents obtained by the ACLU of New Jersey and released Monday.

Dark web users almost doubled in Iran following internet censorship in the country.

Content restrictions increased drastically after a video of a school shooting surfaced on Facebook.

A petition to remove a painting by Balthus is rejected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Good move, anti-censorship organizations say.

Russia could ban Facebook as early as next year.

Hitler has no mustache and there are no swastikas or shouts of Heil Hitler!

The censorship push comes amid a strengthening of Chinese patriotism following the re-election of Xi Jinping to a five-year presidential term.

For a long time it was wrongly assumed that activism, feminism and human rights were only threatened in only in non-Western countries, but what happened in Turkey could happen anywhere.

Amid arguments about censorship on college campuses, elementary school libraries are becoming settings for these debates as well, with the majority of Republicans believing texts featuring LGBTQ characters don't belong there.

Russia's recent legislation has placed demands on the location of servers that have already ousted LinkedIn, in what could be a precursor to bigger networks.

The Harry Potter series was the most challenged book last decade. Now, books with LGBT characters are most at risk.

From Alexei Navalny's "crooks and thieves" jibe to the manatee that keeps waiting around, Russians have found innovative ways to criticize the government online.

Over the weekend, the Russian president signed two laws on anonymous internet use.

Chinese social media users who wanted to discuss Putin during the G20 were out of luck.

Officials unveiled the Book Garden, a giant academic complex on Wednesday.

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Citizen Four team say Assange displays the very autocratic tendencies he complains about.

"When are you going to resign?" one of the viewers asked him by text message. The text-in option quickly disappeared.

China considers the "vulgar" websites a threat to public order.

The French satirical magazine has made innuendos about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's sexuality and mocked Russian plane crashes.

The Ethiopian government has pulled internet access multiple times in recent years. This time, fears of exam leaks might be behind it.

In two different episodes, Russian viewers missed out on lines referencing the Russian president.

Xi appears not to grasp that for a free market to work there must be a free exchange of ideas.

The plan calls for efforts to improve "positive propaganda" and comes on top of recent regulations to control online news.

The project leader called it a "Great Wall of culture" that would rival Wikipedia, which is partly blocked in China.

Beijing's internet regulators will urge the tech firm to "tighten up checks" on apps available in the Apple store.

No country allows limitless "quasi-freedom" online, the Russian leader said.