Sentences with phrase «censorship laws in»

With Nintendo's strict censorship laws in the late 80's, it's easy to see why they wouldn't be called Nazis, yet ironically enough, this game displays one of the most graphic examples of unreserved violence ever caught on 8 - bit.

Also, some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

Not exact matches

Facebook and Google are welcome to operate in China — on condition that they abide by China's censorship and cybersecurity laws, Chinese regulators said at a UN conference on Internet governance this week.

He said the move was consistent with Chinese law and with the company's goal to stop participating in censorship.

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Books are very expensive in South Africa, partially due to the censorship laws (a banned person's books are all retroactively contraband) which have made remaindering impossible and partially due to the high cost of importing books.

Political knowledge in Myanmar is much more widely available than before; the government are slowly easing censorship laws.

Sunder - on your final point, PEN and Index on Censorship are about to publish the report in our inquiry into libel laws.

But now the law has been federally enshrined by the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, otherwise known as the Speech Act and Rory's help is getting serious recognition in the new book, «You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom.»

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

NAKED singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when our known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity?

Censorship in Turkey is regulated by domestic and international legislation, the latter (in theory) taking precedence over domestic law, according to

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The appointment seems a favorable one for the people of Denmark, since the doctor is a man who champions the Age of Enlightenment, a rationalist who carries with him books by Voltaire and Rousseau, doubtless smuggled in despite of Denmark's censorship laws against «radical thinkers.»

The writers and producers wanted to address the changes in the Trump era, and have done that with episodes about fake news, a firm that was looking to hire more Trump - friendly representation, and one about censorship that was inspired by a «Law & Order: SVU» episode based on the President that has yet to air.

In a recent interview, actor Robert Pattinson talks about censorship laws and his upcoming film «Bel Ami» by directors Declan Donnellan (The Big Fish) and Nick Ormerod and starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Water for Elephants, Twilight), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol.

Not Quite Hollywood (R for sexuality, violence, gore, drug use, profanity and graphic nudity) Down Under documentary reveals the untold story of Australia's explosion of «Ozploitation flicks» during the Seventies and Eighties in the wake of the liberalization of the country's oppressive censorship laws.

It is, alas, notable that Soeriaatmadja does not intend to release his film in his native country, as censorship laws would require cutting it beyond recognition.

They do it to make a subsistence wage from their work, retain copyrights, circumvent censorship laws, get books into print within months instead of waiting years, keep their books in print forever instead of a few months, make revisions rapidly, fight political oppression, maintain creative control, get paid in a more timely manner, be able to distribute their works globally, publish highly specialized works that may not prove profitable, and take a chance on making something daringly different.

Although the CCCI can not assume responsibility for censorship of content on the internet, any member has the right to lodge a complaint against another member, per the rules of our constitution and by - laws, in which case the CCCI may intervene, and may find it necessary to suspend or expel members who author content with malicious intent, misrepresentation or defamation on ANY publicly available media (including but not limited to internet communications of any kind).

It also might have had a little something to do with Japan's censorship laws and the copious amounts of blood and death in the game.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Censorship, age ratings and content requirements in the games industry Games Industry Law Summit, April 2017 (Vilnius) An overview of eSports business and regulation Casual Connect Europe, February 2016 (Amsterdam)

The Chinese Government still upholds traditional censorship laws and apply this to console sales in the country as well, what this means is that the government has to approve everything Sony and Microsoft do before they are allowed to do it.

@Michael Mendheim - when you say NZ is even tougher, I'm assuming you mean the process, rather than the actual censorship / rating laws, as Aussie are definitely tougher in that area?

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Dorothy Iannone played a direct role in the legal challenges to obscenity laws and censorship in the US.

When I went to war against Canada's disgusting «human rights» commissions in 2008, I was astonished to discover, very quickly, that the outrageous censorship law, Section 13, was in effect a personal law for one man.

Topics include blog - related intellectual property law, Internet regulation, defamation, and censorship, as well as how blogs are used as evidence and authority in the courts.»

The parody article provoked a firestorm on campus, resulting in the law school's adoption of sexual harassment guidelines that Silverglate describes as an 11 - page censorship code.

Last May, Google appealed what it considers an attempt at extraterritorial law, forcing a kind of censorship on people in other nations.

The expansion of rights for citizens since 2011, elimination of censorship, a new human rights» commission, and a freeing up of the labour laws have all created a markedly improved atmosphere in Burma.

On the prospect of internet content censorship, Lawyer Monthly hears the thoughts of Nicola Mead - Batten, an associate from Cardiff and London based Capital Law, specialising in commercial disputes.

To the extent that Crown copyright or prerogative reserves to the government the potential for excessive control or censorship over law - related information that is in its possession, this is an unacceptable situation.

I've seen some pretty good arguments that Twitter's attempts to comply with country laws on a national level are a good development in online censorship.

Though previously undiscussed, implicit in this argument is the assumption that the public has access to communal sites of information exchange in which they are able to freely engage in political and social debate regarding the law without government interference or censorship.

The majority of the Court ultimately overruled the Ontario Court of Appeal, concluding that even when the content of expression is demonstrated to be false, that is not in and of itself, sufficient to justify censorship through criminal law.

«Law and reality in publishing (seldom the same thing) from the author's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.»

Media law is in many ways related to intellectual property law, however it also involves matters such as censorship and the tort of defamation.

«The blog's description is «Law and reality in publishing — seldom the same thing — from the author's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.»

(3) Lead by example in domestic policy areas, including addressing loose laws on wiretaps, ambiguous oversight of intelligence agencies, shoddy content filtering mechanisms around access to pornography and hate speech, questionable deep packet inspection and data retention practices by internet service providers, and other areas in which Canadian practices provide justification for China's own domestic censorship and surveillance regime.

We believe that Canadians should have a voice in copyright law, access to information, freedom from censorship, and other issues that we face in the digital world.

States also do this indirectly, where the law allows private actions to restrict speech (for example, crippling damages in defamation cases encourage self - censorship by journalists and editors).

«In the other system, there's a firewall censorship barrier between Hong Kong and mainland China and that barrier is providing the censorship so that Google does not have to under their law,» he said.

Around this time, Xiaomi started building in their own applications and services to replace the Google equivalents, partially driven by Chinese censorship laws that forbade Google and also from a competitive perspective.