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Disney’s Christopher Robin has been banned in China. While no specific reason was given for the rejection, the Hollywood Reporter attributed the decision to China’s crackdown on images of Winnie the Pooh. Pooh first …
Read MoreA Chinese professor and outspoken Beijing critic appears to have gone missing after police broke into his home and abruptly ended his interview with U.S.-backed radio broadcaster Voice of America …
Read MoreAlthough Chinese internet users live closely alongside censorship some have found it hard to cope as the state’s internet clampdown gets more intrusive and personal
Read MoreOn 2 July, over 160 organisations sent this open letter [PDF] on the EU copyright reform to the Members of the European Parliament ahead of the 5 July plenary vote on the JURI mandate …
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Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday insisted on Thursday that he “wasn’t being serious” when he recently told two reporters that he “can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start …
Read MoreRequest to the UN for review of the Julian Assange case on human rights grounds.
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Shujaat Bukhari, one of Kashmir’s foremost journalists, was assassinated Thursday, the eve of Eid, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. For Indians, Bukhari’s death is a reminder of …
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KEY FINDINGS In both authoritarian or democratic contexts, new forms of censorship online are carried out through distributed attacks on freedom of expression that are insidiously difficult to detect, and …
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BY THIS WEEKEND, Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor accused of releasing national security information to the media, will have been in jail for more than a full year without being …
Read MoreA number of media outlets are pushing back at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for limiting the reporters allowed to cover part of its chemical summit on Tuesday — including one …
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