Sentences with phrase «censorship which»

The third time was to make a point about censorship which CA immediately made for me by censoring my comment.

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The decision by SXSW earned it a lot of bad PR and almost lost the show some of its high - profile media partners like Buzzfeed and Vox Media in the process, which said the decision bordered on censorship.

The pair runs tech giant Alphabet's ambitious Jigsaw project, which aims to wipe out censorship, curb fake news, and aid free expression with online tools.

Variety noted in December that movies screened in Saudi Arabia can expect strong censorship, particularly around scenes which feature sex, LGBT representation, and religious issues.

Specifically, its users could pay for services purely through digital tokens without relying on banks or payment processors, which are often the target of government scrutiny or censorship.

One is the risk that it might be forced to pay more attention to issues like free speech and censorship and journalistic integrity than it really wants to, which would be a huge hassle.

Its public relations machine seemed to run completely off the rails in May, when the European Court of Justice enshrined the «right to be forgotten» — a concept Google had said amounted to censorship and which it had fought to undermine.

Google, which has expertise in monitoring its video service YouTube, would know how to deal with the tricky policy issues facing Twitter, such as abusive tweets and censorship.

Whatever the reason, the issue of censorship on Facebook — and especially censorship of journalists and news outlets — is a serious concern, but one which the company has so far refused to confront head on.

This is just the latest blatant online censorship attempt from the Turkish government, which has become one of the worst offenders on the internet when it comes to quashing dissenting voices.

His testimony, which included fielding questions from members of Congress about Russian interference, political censorship and Facebook's role in the developing world, was largely seen as a success within Facebook.

China's speakers at the conference, which have included Lu Wei and Xi Jinping himself (in - person in 2015, and remotely in 2016), have delivered statements that highlight a contradiction — China wants outsiders to perceive it as open, and also wants to earn affirmation for its current censorship regime.

However, Roskomnadzor, the country's federal executive body responsible for censorship, won't disclose which services have been blocked.

In a letter which the company claims to have sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, AML Bitcoin's President Marcus Andrade complained of unfair censorship.

Following in Google's footsteps, Amazon has closed a technical loophole that helped some online services evade censorship filters, but which was also abused by cybercriminals.

This gives them certain advantages over centralized exchange platforms: they do not collect information about users, their accounts, or transactions and they do not aggregate trade volume, which makes them far less prone to hacker attacks; they can not be easily seized or shut down due to government censorship or other external factors.

Telegram's grand vision is to build the TON (Telegram Open Network), a blockchain - based platform that extends its messaging app, which counts 200 million active users, into a range of services that include payments, file storage, censorship - proof browsing and decentralized apps hosted on the platform.

Although there has in fact been online censorship regarding this issue, there is no sign of a truly China - based «Me Too» movement in which regular female netizens collectively share their stories of sexual abuse in the way it has unfolded in many Western countries.

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If another etymological aside is permitted, «censorship» is from censere, which means to assess or oversee.

• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future: The most mercurially gifted of the «Odessa School» writers, Krzhizhanovsky is at last emerging from the shadows to which Soviet censorship condemned him for decades, and these seven stories are among the most attractive specimens of his bizarre, whimsical, frightening, kindly, and endlessly fertile imagination.

Hotbeds of intolerance, they deny academic freedom to their staffs and engage in censorship of what their pupils may read or discuss, unlike public schools, which practice a careful neutrality and respect toward all opinions.

In short, the court said to Dallas: Come back with a case in which you limit your censorship to films that children can legally watch, and you will find a more favorable atmosphere here.

In addition to propaganda, society also employs censorship against those communications which threaten commonplace values and assumptions.

From its support of the Sudanese government (which is perpetrating the genocide in Darfur), to its widespread religious persecution, to its one - child - only policy, to the censorship and persecution of its own people, the Chinese government just hasn't made enough progress to warrant a $ 100 - million celebration in its honor.

Fahrenheit 451 remains in the public consciousness for its searing critique of censorship (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns — in Bradbury's dystopian view of the future, that temperature is used to burn books) and control over learning and intellectual pursuit.

The acceptance of boundaries that limit debate has become a form of self - censorship that distorts the information flow that is necessary for a well - informed citizenry, on which authentic democracy depends.

They sense the anti-Christian value system it carries and counsel believers to return to religious fundamentals which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays, and rock concerts, and attempts at censorship of media, especially films, TV, and books.

But there is a difference between civilized censorship and spineless pandering to ideological terrorists, which is what the more aggressive homosexual activists have become.

I am thinking here of the severe censorship imposed on his books and the restrictions applied by the Vatican to his liberty of action and speaking, which resulted, eventually, in his leaving the Franciscan Order and the priesthood in 1992.

A good rebuttal to these attempts to get good people to join in these narrow censorship - type movements is the statement by ACTS, Action for Children's Television, which circulated a petition in 1981 that said, in part:

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.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

For this reason, we have examined the issues of censorship, regulation, and the First Amendment protections from a perspective which asks what is right, just, and equitable, not simply what is currently legal or stablished public policy.

Preferring self - regulation to the threat of government censorship, studios voluntarily abided by the rules of the code, which detailed the moral obligations of film art and included guidelines on which subjects should be avoided in films and which should be handled respectfully.

Censorship would be them deleting all of the comments that go against the protest which is clearly not the case

But it is a dangerous course of censorship to judge, which topics and points of view should be allowed as comments to various articles.

Any form of over zealous censorship will kill this site and force those who keep it alive by giving their true opinions - totally unlike the club official programme, which is a sham, with it's bland non news — to find other sources for their opinioins.

If you take The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, which I've only dipped into, it has certainly made us think about censorship and religion.

The wider danger comes from a culture of social pressure and intellectual tip - toeing, which ultimately leads to self - censorship.

Which, if any oppose NDAA, and censorship of the Internet?

The only exception was Beijing News, which initially refused to publish an editorial by Global Times — the commercial offshoot of the People's Daily — that blamed the censorship protests on foreign activists.

Earlier today, the Green Party issued a statement objecting to WGRZ's proposed exclusion of Murphy, calling it «an act of censorship on the part of a private station which profits from use of the public airwaves.»

This cautioned wisdom runs counter to the popular notion that the media ought to operate on an honours system of self - regulation, the proponents of which tend to hide behind arguments against the «risks» posed by censorship.

«It is not for Britain, or any other Western power, to try to resolve [this battle],» May stated, which seems odd next to her commitment to combating extremist Islam through censorship.

Now for a plug: I have recently succeeded Anna Ford (who succeeded Michael Grade) as chair of Index on Censorship, an organisation which promotes and campaigns for the freedom of expression in the UK and around the world.

It's interestingly, perhaps even laughable, that Inna Patty and her Exclusive Events Ghana still believe that their «regressive censorship tactic», which for many years seem to have worked on the young vulnerable women of Miss Ghana not to make public their concerns would work on the wider Ghanaian society.

But she channeled that experience into two books, which draw out other prominent media figures to share their own experiences of corporate and government censorship.

It's traditionally the right in British society which demands censorship.

In the end, such efforts amount to censorship, which has a number of drawbacks, even if it is said to be applied «in the public good».