133 posts and columns on censorship

Nudged by Apple, Twitter’s Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine

in Social on February 6 at 10:14 am PT

In App Store dealings, sometimes compromise hurts.
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Twitter’s Vine App Doesn’t Have a Porn Problem. It Has a Porn Discovery Problem.

in Social on January 28 at 4:33 pm PT

Hide your porn better, Twitter.
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Toward a More Visual Language: How Social Networks Skirt Censorship in China

in Social on January 22 at 3:45 am PT

There are ways around the hard-and-fast rules of the state. Listen up, Facebook.
China Youthology COO Kevin Lee in conversation at DLD, Munich.

Iran Debuts Its Own Version of YouTube

in Media on December 9, 2012 at 1:32 pm PT

The site aims to spread Islamic influence throughout the Persian world.
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Iran to Move Citizens to Domestic Internet Network, Snips Access to Google

in News on September 23, 2012 at 1:26 pm PT

In what the country characterizes as a bid to increase domestic cybersecurity, the Iranian government plans to switch its Web-connected population over to a domestic Internet infrastructure. This is seen by many nongovernmental Iranian activists as the first step toward an Iran-only Web with the freedom to shut off online access to the rest of the international Web. As first reported by Reuters, the government is already showing its willingness to censor; as of Sunday, Iranians will no longer have access to Google search or the Gmail service.