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Saturday 20th March...

EU News West Europe

Update: Putting the Swiss Knife into Video Games
A resolution to ban 'killer games' passes in Swiss parliament
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Update: Hidden Economy
The Economist pulls another issue from distribution in Thailand
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Friday 19th March...

Australia News
Aussie News

Update: Slow Pass Filter
Australian internet censorship delayed

EU News
West Europe

Update: Maltese are Cross
As state persecutes student author and publisher over sexy text story

South Asia
South Asia

Updated: Negative Pakistan
Pakistan censors ban Bollywood film Lahore

Thursday 18th March...

US News
US News

Rated R for Re-Launched
MPAA improve their film ratings website

World Censorship
Asia Pacific

Update: Tank Man Returns to China
Tiananmen Square massacre links appear on Google's search engine in China

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Updated: Bed and Bored
Minnesota senator proposes banning state employees from hotels with 'violent' porn

EU News
West Europe

Update: Future Not So Rosé
Wine tasting banned from French TV

EU News
West Europe

Update: Gambling on Less Opposition
Polish government again pondering internet censorship

Australia News
Aussie News

Update: Censoria Dramatica
Australian government seek to prosecute US website for offending Aborigines

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East Europe

No Radio Liberty
Kyrgyzstan bans US funded radio and TV news services

South Asia
South Asia

Updated: Naked Hype
Bollywood's first full frontal sex scene

Wednesday 17th March...

Australia News
Aussie News

Update: Hidden Face of Censorship
Australian R18+ campaigners mysteriously have their Facebook page banned

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Asia Pacific

Wide Eyed Artists
Tokyo considers legislation to impose age restrictions on anime comic books

EU News
West Europe

A Landscape of Censorship
Spanish ministry asks for cuts to corruption criticisms in housing construction TV documentary

US News
US News

Offsite: Blurring into Old Fogies
MTV's weirdly conservative censorship
 

Tuesday 16th March...

US News
US News

Anti-Leak Report Leaked
US report proposed to undermine wikileaks by outing contributors

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Middle East

Update: Turkishness Is...Insulting Free Speech
Website editor on charges for comments made by forum poster

World Censorship
Americas

In Denial
Venezuela is planning to censor the internet

Africa
Africa News

Facing up to Easy Offence
Moroccan Secular group incurs the wrath of Facebook

Monday 15th March...

EU News
West Europe

Update: Jobsworth Dermot Ahern
Hope for Irish referendum that could remove recent blasphemy law

South Asia
South Asia

Prudery in Fashion
India gets wound up by catwalk nipples on Fashion TV

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Middle East

Update: No News on Southern Unrest
Yemen government seizes broadcasting equipment of news channels

EU News
West Europe

Offsite: Detecting Lies
Academic paper doubting lie detector capability banned by libel

Sunday 14th March...

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Enemies of the Internet 2010
Russia and Turkey come under surveillance by Reporters without Borders

Australia News
Aussie News

Update: Out of the Shadows
Shadow treasurer opposes Australian government internet censorship

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A Bum Rap
Australian police arrest man for the strong language in rap music playing on his car stereo

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Diary: Epic Zombie March March
Public demonstration in support of R18+ for games

Previous    
 West Europe  Symbolic Censorship DRM crazed Ubisoft find their Silent Hunter 5 banned in Germany 13th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Obscene Law Erotic dancers jailed in Indonesia 13th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Stealth Mode New Zealand has stealthily started internet filtering 13th Mar
 West Europe  Censorial Sect Scientologists attempt to ban German TV film 12th Mar
 Aussie News  Artless Censors Australia strips out artistic defence from laws governing images of children 12th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Newspapers Caned in Malaysia Newspaper banned from criticising nasty sharia canings 12th Mar
 Middle East  Murdoch on Censorship The world does not think of the Middle East when it thinks of creative content 12th Mar
 West Europe  Forgive Them Lord, They Know Not What They Do Blasphemous Polish prosecutors despoil heavy metal icon for ripping a bible asunder on stage 11th Mar
 Middle East  Dogged by Censorship British artist given suspended fine over depiction of Turkish PM as a dog 11th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Censorship Advice New censorship guidelines for Malaysia 11th Mar
 Africa News  Censorial Static Voice of America radio jammed in Ethiopia 11th Mar
 Africa News  Censoring the News Ivory Coast bans France 24 TV News over reports of deaths at protest 11th Mar
 Middle East  Freedom of Repression Newspaper and journalist fined for criticising ruling family 11th Mar
 South Asia  Because One Website is Blocked All Should be Blocked Bombay High Court refuses petition to extend porn website blocking 10th Mar
 Americas  Venezuelan Crime Problems Solved Violent video games have been banned 10th Mar
 World News  World Day Against Cyber Censorship For a day of unfiltered internet access for all 9th Mar
 Middle East  Preaching Disbelief in Freedom Egyptian Journalist's Syndicate supports newspaper columnist in rant against atheist blogs 9th Mar
 Aussie News  Sanity Starts to Prevail Green MPs will vote against Australian internet censorship 8th Mar
 Aussie News  High Score Australian games for adult consultation receives 55,000 responses 7th Mar
 Aussie News  Category 2 Freedom Softcore porn mags banned from sale in Queensland 7th Mar
 South Asia  Seduced by Censorship Internet censorship in Afghanistan 7th Mar
 Middle East  Searching for Repression And finding it at Middle East Bing 7th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Censor taken to Court Journalist group file court challenge to censor over the banned film Balibo 7th Mar
 Asia Pacific  Sharia TV Censor Aceh proposal for TV censorship adhering to sharia law 7th Mar
 Middle East  Dangerous Acting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tyranny is crushing Iran's artists 7th Mar
 US News  Conflict of Interests Video shops cite child interests in campaign to hobble DVD kiosk competitors 6th Mar
 US News  Chilling Effects Laughable police censorship of naked snow lady 6th Mar
 Aussie News  All Practical Measures Rudd considers an ombudsman to censor material on social networking websites 5th Mar
 Aussie News  The Devil is in the Detail Australian magazine censors discuss labial details 5th Mar
 World News  EIRIN Film censors of Japan 4th Mar
 Middle East  Censored Noted Iranian film maker arrested over support for opposition 4th Mar
 West Europe  God Almighty! Italian football federation bans 'god' cusses 4th Mar
 South Asia  War Censorship Afghanistan bans the filming of military strikes 4th Mar
 West Europe  On Par with Zimbabwe RAI suspends TV political talk shows in run up to regional elections 3rd Mar
 Aussie News  National Day of Action Stop the Filter and Block the Filter protests 3rd Mar
 Middle East  Dam Censorship Egyptian Supreme Court throws out government ban on President Nasser movie 3rd Mar
 Aussie News  Next Mandatory TV Filtering? Australia to develop its own TV parental control standard 3rd Mar
 Asia Pacific  Censor Power Film makers criticise state control embodied in new film censorship law 3rd Mar
 Middle East  Press Under Attack Iran targets opposition newspapers for closure 3rd Mar
 Middle East  Bad Marks for Egypt UN criticises lack of freedom of expression 3rd Mar
 Africa News  No Kano Do Religious police ban music festival in Nigeria 3rd Mar
 East Europe  A Destructive Character Kazakhstan sets up internet censorship centre 2nd Mar
 Aussie News  Opposing a Censorial Government Australian opposition parties speak favourably of R18+ for games 2nd Mar
 Aussie News  An Adult Approach to Censorship Ban on games for adults fails to reflect Australian community standards 2nd Mar
 US News  Naked Prudery Campaigners challenge art censorship in Temecula, California 28th Feb
 West Europe  Front Against Censorship Maltese anti-censorship group protest in Valletta 28th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Morality Committee Cambodia sets up committee to specify websites to block 28th Feb
 US News  Kick-Ass Trailers Red band trailer hype 27th Feb
 Aussie News  Ruddy Well Won't Apologise Kevin Rudd responds to internet filtering TV questions 27th Feb
 Middle East  Coming Down Hard UAE bans Heavy Rain video game 27th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Australia Inspires the Repressive Indonesia looks to Australia's internet censoring proposal 27th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Clearing the Airwaves Thai Radio stations had been warned in the run up to Thaksin asset seizure case 27th Feb
 Aussie News  Head in the Clouds Oz censorship debate censored on Comms minister's website 26th Feb
 Aussie News  Grow Up Australia Major Australian retailer supports R18+ for video games 26th Feb
 US News  Vaguely Constitutional John Stagliano fails to convince court that obscenity laws are unconstitutional 26th Feb
 West Europe  Justice Gives Way to Victim Advocacy Google execs sentenced for bullying video posted on YouTube 25th Feb
 East Europe  Potential to Destroy Belarus Council for Morality bans Rammstein gig in Belarus 25th Feb
 Aussie News  A Stereotypically Censorial Race Australia quick to propose extending state internet filtering facilities to include alleged racist material 25th Feb
 South Asia  Internet Unblocked Indian internet censors ease up on porn 25th Feb
 Middle East  Cutting the Good with the Bad UN urges Bahrain's internet censors to ease down 25th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Meet the Censor Chinese censors to interview all prospective webmasters 24th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Yake Lizard Chinese netizens seize on propaganda pun to represent the internet censor 23rd Feb
 Aussie News  Unwanted Australian online public not impresses by mandatory state internet censorship 22nd Feb
 West Europe  Unblockable Internet Blocking Law Unwanted German internet censorship law comes into force 22nd Feb
 West Europe  Blinkered Lawmakers France introduces website filtering for MPs 22nd Feb
 West Europe  Modernisation Protest against censorship in Malta 21st Feb
 West Europe  Putting the Guns Down and Sharing a Prayer Israel whinges at Spanish art exhibit 20th Feb
 Middle East  Culturally Immoral ECHR rule against Turkey's ban on book considered part of European literary heritage 20th Feb
 West Europe  Brutal in Berlin Supporting the hype for The Killer Inside Me 20th Feb
 West Europe  Earn Less Work More Chinese artist finds political play on Sarkozy words censored in Paris 20th Feb
 West Europe  Government Blocking Blocked Protests against Polish government internet censorship achieve a 'rethink' 19th Feb
 West Europe  Putting the Swiss Knife into Video Games? A ban on 'killer games' to be put before Swiss parliament 19th Feb
 West Europe  Free Speech Haven Iceland considers proposals to become the world's first free speech haven
19th Feb
 World News  Filtering out the Criticism New Zealand quietly moves close to implementing state internet filtering 19th Feb
 Aussie News  Censor Cuts Mean Income Cuts Australian video games trade organisation, iGEA, criticises lack of R18+ 19th Feb
 Aussie News  Australian State Discrimination Discriminatory ban on Aboriginal access to porn slammed 19th Feb
 US News  The R Word US campaign against the word 'retard' 18th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Fearful of Comment 200 lèse majesté cases in Thai courts 18th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Buggered Jokey image of politicians gets Malaysian blogger arrested 18th Feb
 Aussie News  Serial Censorship Australian censors ignored by magazine publishers 18th Feb
 Aussie News  Interview with a Censor AustraliaGamer interview games censor 18th Feb
 World News  One Blur Fits All International TV censorship reinforces homophobia 17th Feb
 Aussie News  Refused Censorship Australian Library Association joins in the criticism of internet censorship plan 17th Feb
 Asia Pacific  Gothika Filipina 2 Art censored in Kuala Lumpur to be exhibited in Manila 17th Feb
 West Europe  Over Blocking Assured French internet blocking being fast tracked 16th Feb
 Aussie News  Disappearing Childhood The Art Censorship Guide published in Australia 16th Feb
 US News  State Censorship Organisers of New Mexico adult film festival fined 16th Feb

World News Index  News: US: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Latest
 News: Americas: 2009 2010 Latest
 News: West Europe:  2007 2008 2009 2010 Latest
 News: Middle East: 2009 Latest
 News: Africa: 2009 2010 Latest
 News: East Europe:  2009 2010 Latest
 News: South Asia:  2009 2010 Latest
 News: Asia Pacific:  2009 2010 Latest
 News: Australia: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Latest
 News: International: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Latest
 News: Press Freedom 2007 2008 Discontinued
 News: World Censors: 2005 2006 2007 2008 Discontinued

World Censors Index  Japan: Film Censorship in Japan Eirin (March 2010)
 Malta: Censors reveal their guidelines (Jan 2010)
 South Africa: Video game classification guidelines (June 2009)
 Singapore: An interview with a Singaporean film censor (April 2009)
 Hong Kong: Category III (Feb 2009)
 Ireland: Recent developments in Irish film censorship (Dec 2008)
 China: Shared Repression China issues detailed censorship rules for video sharing sites
 Australia: Censoring the Insensible Australia's new censor outlines his approach (Oct 2007)
 Thailand: Ministry of Censorial Culture (March 2007)
 New Zealand: An Interview with Bill Hastings (Oct 2006)
 Italy: Censorship of movies, video & TV (Feb 2006)
 Germany: Video Censorship
 USA: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Research

 Media: Hollywood films found to feature unsafe practices  (Jan 2010)
 Games: Brain Training. Research points out benefits of video games (Jan 2010)
 Music: Youngsters who like sex also like pop music (March 2009)
 Internet: Latest: Social Networking Addles Nutter Minds (Feb 2009)
 Television & Films: Latest: Violent Films Cut Crime (Jan 2008)
 Advertising Latest: Fair Game? Suitable advertising on websites popular with children (Dec 2007)

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