Chinese state media on Tuesday reportedly deleted an article published on Monday in which China’s top coronavirus expert, Zhong Nanshan, argued that China needs to abandon the ruling Communist Party’s Chinese coronavirus policy of “zero-Covid” and join the rest of the world in “reopening” to live a post-pandemic life, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Chinese censors on Monday deleted a social media post listing over 150 people who purportedly died in Shanghai because of the coronavirus lockdown – not from the virus itself, but from other medical conditions they could not obtain treatment for, or because they committed suicide.
Sina Weibo, the heavily censored Chinese alternative to banned Twitter, appears to have banned a hashtag that quotes the Chinese national anthem to criticize coronavirus lockdowns. It also appears to have blocked searches for the lyrics to the anthem.
Reuters on Friday noted the ostensible support of the Chinese public for draconian “zero-Covid” policies “seems to be wearing thin” amid “food shortages, family separations, lost wages, and economic pain.” Disobedience is on the rise, and so are arrests.
China on Monday issued its first new video game licenses in nine months, seemingly backing away from a harsh crackdown on the gaming industry.
Libs of TikTok, a viral account dedicated to mocking leftists by sharing their most cringeworthy videos from TikTok and other platforms, has been censored by Twitter for “hateful content.”
Warner Bros. has bowed to Chinese authorities by removing gay dialogue from its blockbuster sequel Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore, with the studio justifying its act of artistic censorship by describing it as “nuanced cuts” and “minor edits.”
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of rape, has been banned from Twitter after tweeting about the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. Although Elon Musk has made news by becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder, it is clear that censorship still runs amok on the platform.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly decided not to join Twitter’s board of directors after becoming the company’s largest shareholder.
MOSCOW (AP) — YouTube has banned the channel of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, prompting government officials to renew longtime threats against the platform.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to address panicked Twitter employees following his purchase of a large portion of Twitter stock and appointment to the censor-happy company’s board of directors. One employee of the far-left company asked on an internal message board: “We know that he has caused harm to workers, the trans community, women, and others with less power in the world,” the employee asked. “How are we going to reconcile this decision with our values? Does innovation trump humanity?”
Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic, who helped develop the original “Russia collusion” hoax, told an audience at a University of Chicago “disinformation” conference this week that Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she once dismissed, should be ignored even after it has been authenticated because the president’s son’s business dealings aren’t “interesting.”
Government imposition of regulation and controls over the internet can defeat a “demand for crazy” through the spread of incorrect messages, former President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
An advert for vegan soup has been banned in the UK due to censorship authorities feeling it objectified a naked model.
Apparently taking his cues from the Will Smith playbook, rapper T.I. recently harassed a female comedian at an Atlanta comedy club over jokes about his sexual assault allegations.
If you’re trying to obtain information from both sides of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Twitter just made your job a little bit harder.
Despite alleged free speech advocate Elon Musk’s purchase of a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, the company reportedly has no plans to reinstate the accounts of former President Donald Trump and the many other conservatives blacklisted by the censor-happy platform. The company defied Musk in a statement, saying: “policy decisions are not determined by the board or shareholders, and we have no plans to reverse any policy decisions.”
Christian satire site the Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson are all still locked out of their Twitter accounts for posting that transgender Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Rachel Levine is a biological male.
YouTube removed another interview with former President Donald Trump on Friday for violating its “elections misinformation” policy.
An automatic word monitor in a new Amazon worker chat app will ban a variety of words and phrases, such as “union,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” “slave labor,” and “master,” among other terms, according to internal documents obtained by the Intercept.
Shanghai’s coronavirus lockdown widened and intensified on Monday, with no end in sight, even though citywide mass testing was supposedly completed on schedule with military assistance. Residents report armed police officers flooding the streets as the public grows more angry and desperate.
Author J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is out with a provocative new television advertisement on Tuesday calling out establishment media outlets for claiming Americans who want to secure the border and stop the flow of illicit drugs are “racist.”
Germany’s left-wing Chancellor has openly verbally attacked a group of anti-lockdown protesters, accusing them of lying.
A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.
A Russian dissident outlet claimed that the country’s communications regulatory agency Roskomnadzor warned other news agencies on Sunday not to carry an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz praised Breitbart News and its audience of being open to “hear[ing] all points of view.”
A number of federal states in Germany have said that the symbolic use of the letter ‘Z’ can now be considered a criminal offence.
The Ministry of Defence demanded earlier this week that YouTube remove footage of a Russian prankster prank calling their Defence Secretary.
Graham Linehan, the cancelled co-creator of Father Ted, has once again defied the trans lobby by insisting that ‘women are real’.
Twitter censored Breitbart News senior writer John Nolte after he made a joke about transgender Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine.
Chinese streaming services banned movies and videos featuring actor Keanu Reeves after he appeared in a virtual event hosted by Tibet House U.S., a nonprofit organization funded by the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama. Reeves’ name has also been censored from Chinese social media platforms.
Sydney Watson, co-host of You Are Here on the conservative streaming service BlazeTV, was banned from Patreon earlier this week, the second major conservative blacklisted by the funding platform on the same day.
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter in regard to the suppression of the “Laptop From Hell” series in October 2020.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host on television, is the latest victim of Twitter censorship as the platform cracks down on anyone who even jokes about the fact that Biden administration Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine is a biological man.
Josh Lekach, host of the Wrong Opinion podcast urged fellow creators to leave Patreon for free speech-friendly alternatives after the left-wing funding platform wiped out his stream of income with a permanent blacklisting.
The editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the popular conservative-run satirical website, has been locked out of his Twitter account after mocking the platform for allowing Chinese officials involved in abuses against the country’s Uighur minority on the platform while conservatives are censored.
Turning Point USA founder and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account until he deletes a tweet about male-to-female transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine.
Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre announced that his country will not block Russian state media, stating he is against censorship.
Christian satire site the Babylon Bee has remained defiant 24 hours after Twitter locked its account for calling the transgender HHS assistant secretary Dr. Rachel Levine a “man.”
Twitter locked the Christian satire site the Babylon Bee out of its account on Sunday for “hateful conduct” over an article satirizing Dr. Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
