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Tag: censorship

  • The Saudis ban Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    The Saudis ban Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Doctor Stranger was set to be released on May 5 in some Middle Eastern countries while American distribution would begin May 6..

    Until America Chavez came around..

    Actor Xochitl Gomez is playing the character.. Although it is not known how extensively America Chavez features in the film.

    The character is Marvel’s first Latin-American LGBTQIA+ character to appear in an ongoing comic book series – which is a major deal for representation.

    Other Gulf countries are also following and not allowing the film to be seen..

    Saudi Arabia has a history of banning movies for similar reasons. Marvel’s “The Eternals” was banned in Saudi Arabia, over its same-gender couple romance and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first gay superhero..

    DEVELOPING..

  • Whoopsie poopsie on Tank Man

    Whoopsie poopsie on Tank Man

    SAVE THIS TANK MAN IMAGE WHILE YOU CAN! DON’T BING IT Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for “Tank man,” even when searching from the United States. The apparent censorship comes on the...

    SAVE THIS TANK MAN IMAGE WHILE YOU CAN! DON’T BING IT

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    Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for “Tank man,” even when searching from the United States. The apparent censorship comes on the anniversary of China’s violent crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

    “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. “Tank man” relates to the infamous image of a single protester standing in front of a line of Chinese tanks during the crackdown.

    Motherboard verified that the issue also impacts image searches on Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, which both use Bing.

    On 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, we look to this photo was taken the day before the famous tank man photo. The Chinese regime massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters demanding democratic rule:

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    And this is a full image of TANK MAN, not just one tank.. no… NUMEROUS:

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    A Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard in an email that “This is due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this.”..

  • MAY DAY IN UK! WEB CRACKDOWN ON THE WAY!

    MAY DAY IN UK! WEB CRACKDOWN ON THE WAY!

    While interest groups who campaign against cyber bullying and child pornography are applauding upcoming web changes in the UK, others are becoming fearful of how far the government will regulate..
    There are coming changes to the online world in Europe.. Great Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said that the era of self regulation is over.. Cyber bullying and porn online has become too free.. too much… the government, the citizens of the UK are told, is the onl group of honest barrons who can save the citizens from the freedoms of their speech..

    A white paper on online harms, published jointly by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Home Office, proposes strict new rules be introduced that require firms to take responsibility for their users and their safety, as well as the content that appears on their services.
    Overseen by an independent regulator, internet companies which break these rules could even see senior management held personally liable for the failings.

    A newly introduced duty of care would require firms to take more responsibility for the safety of users and more actively tackle the harm caused by content or activity on their platforms.
    MORE…
    There is an upcoming “12 week consultation” for the plans.. 
    They would apply to ANY COMPANY that allows users to share data… share posts.. 
    Facebook and others would face huge fines and penalties for the allowance of users to share suicide or self-harm posts../ And most likely much more as time goes on.
    Just as price increases by governments get passed down to citizens who pay prices to private firms, this will work the same.
    Social platforms have already increasingly regulated speech of its users—they have the privacy policies that allow it… and in a sense freedom of speech does not apply when a private company is your platform … the government is not regulating YOU.. but THEM.. AND they will have the freedom to regulate your freedom.
    See? This is how it works in the gutters of the socials… in a world where we gave all of our freedom and rights and photographs to a corporate social structure that now will be highly regulated by the government of the UK in a Chinese style of censorship.
    In the name of consumer mental health and safety…In the name of a good deed….