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Thinly disguised censorship…Advert censor bans advert of perfectly healthy looking model on the basis of a single still
Posted: 7 April, 2016 in ASA Advert CensorTags: Advert Censor, ASA
Abusive lawmaking…MPAA protests against overbroad revenge porn legislation being considered in Minnesota
Posted: 6 April, 2016 in MPAA, US NewsTags: censorship, mpaa
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Do you want to be in a club that courts prospective members like this?…Turkey demands that Germany censors satirical YouTube video about Erdogan
Posted: 30 March, 2016 in worldTags: censorship, Erdogan, NDR
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Small victory…US small ads website, Backpage.com, wins appeal with the court agreeing that the website is not responsible for the posts added by users
Posted: 30 March, 2016 in US NewsTags: Backpage.com
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Secondhand Lions…Cutting Edge Quick Trims Episode 28. BBFC category cuts for a PG rated cinema release
Posted: 28 March, 2016 in BBFC cutsTags: BBFC cuts, Cutting Edge, Secondhand Lions
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France demands that it should be the World’s internet censor…France ludicrously claims the right to censor the World’s internet and fines Google for not blocking Americans from viewing content censored in the EU
Posted: 26 March, 2016 in EU, InternetTags: EU, France, Google, Right to be Forgotten
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Lost Business…BBFC bows out of rating cinema adverts
Posted: 26 March, 2016 in BBFCTags: BBFC, CAA, cinema adverts
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has opposed draft revenge porn legislation that is being considered in Minnesota. The MPAA said the Minnesota draft law could restrict the publication of items of legitimate news, commentary, and historical interest .Revenge porn refers to the sharing of intimate images after the end of a relationship, but the definition is being ‘stretched’ a broader sense to describe any publication of explicit images without consent, for example when private photographs of a celebrity are leaked online.
Advertising website Backpage.com, which includes small ads for sex workers, won an appeal on the 14 th of March, 2016. The ruling states that Backpage is not responsible for any trafficking that may happen because of the advertisements on their website.Backpage provides free or cheap advertisements and has been used a lot by sex workers since the removal of Craigslist in 2010. Ads are moved to the front using Bitcoin transactions after credit card companies were pressured to stop working for the website. In recent years, the website has been subject to multiple lawsuits in different states. The website has also been subject to hearings in the United States Congress, as NSWP reported here .
Europe’s right to be forgotten is a nasty and arbitrary censorship power used to hide internet content such as past criminal history. Many think it tramples on the public’s right to know, as quite a few examples have born out.
From 31 March 2016, the BBFC will delegate to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) the regulation of all cinema advertisements in the UK.