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Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

See, regular expressions are hard

India's demand to identify people on chat apps will 'break end-to-end encryption', say digital rights warriors

Announced rules also require fast takedowns of content, online profile verification, and more

Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'

De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall

Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

It’s always important for us to understand your views. That's why we’re shutting them down

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs

China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism

Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'

Facebook to save US users from ads bought by foreign state-controlled media

Leaving more room for false ads bought by local politicians, which it still allows

Zuck loves free speech so much Facebook will censor 'anti-state' content in Vietnam after telcos 'crippled' access

Updated Fine, fine, we'll ban whatever the government says is illegal, just give us back access, says US giant

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

Updated For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet

Super-leaker Snowden punts free PDF* of tell-all NSA book with censored parts about China restored, underlined

* In Simplified Chinese

Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler

Nor any requests to remove the works of Rob Schneider, Kevin James, or Ashton Kutcher, sadly

China and Russia join to battle 'illegal internet content,' which means what you fear it does

Authoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box

What? No way. Apple? Censoring iOS 13 to appease China? Gosh. How shocking. Who'd have thought it?

iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

Border cops accused of loading tourists' mobiles up with snoop app in Muslim area

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