TikTok parent company complicit in censorship and Xinjiang police…
Popular video app TikTok is “a vector for censorship and surveillance”, according to a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which…
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Pakistan Has Sent the Highest Number of Content Censorship Requests in 2019
Facebook’s Transparency Report 2019 is out which states Pakistan has sent the highest number of content restriction requests to the leading social media…
TikTok censors references to Tiananmen and Tibet
Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok censors material that is politically sensitive to the Chinese government.It said it had viewed the site's moderation…
Ion Fury Developer Backtracks, Says It Won’t Remove Gay Joke Because Of…
Upon its release, Ion Fury seemed like a bullet-proof success. The Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior-inspired retro shooter launched earlier this month to rave…
TikTok parent brings Google like search to China with censorship
China’s ByteDance Ltd. launched a search engine that bears a striking resemblance to Google’s clean, uncluttered home page but produces heavily sanitized…
Chinese video-game censorship doesn’t end with ‘Devotion’
It’s hard to overstate how large Tencent is as a tech company or how much influence it exerts on the video-game industry every day, in a million silent ways.…
Gears 5 Boss Corrects the Record on Smoking Censorship
The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson took to Twitter to correct the record regarding a controversy stemming from the decision not to include smoking or…
Congo internet shutdown shows how Chinese censorship tactics are spreading
Internet and social media shutdowns have become more and more common across Africa and Asia in recent years, particularly as authoritarian governments look to…
Google’s cyber unit Jigsaw introduces Intra, a new security app
Jigsaw, the division owned by Google parent Alphabet, has revealed Intra, a new app aimed at protecting users from state-sponsored censorship.Intra is a new…
Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship…
Alex Jones blasted tech companies for removing Infowars from their platforms Monday in a live stream on Twitter’s Periscope service. Screenshot by Joan E.…