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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

UpdatedFine, 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'

UpdatedFor 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

Having a bad day? Be thankful you don't work at a Russian ISP: Kremlin signs off Pootynet restrictions

In Russia the internet regulates you

Russian parliament waves through powers for internet iron curtain

High potential of cutting off the nose to spite the face

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

Internet Archive perplexed and annoyed over idiotic demands

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an intranet if West opens cyber-fire

In Putin's Russia, internet logs off from you

Iron Mike Pence blasts Google for its censor-happy Dragonfly Chinese search engine

Wait until the Veep finds out what Apple is doing for them

Did you know? The word 'Taiwan' would crash iOS thanks to a buggy filter for the Chinese govt

蒂姆，我们告诉你谨慎！

Silk road adviser caught, Kaspersky sues Dutch paper, and Vietnam's tech clampdown

RoundupAlso, Weight Watchers is light on security

Google listens to New Zealand just long enough to ignore it

'We can't delete court cases, and you can't make us'

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