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Nashville library offers ‘I read banned books’ library cards

James Porteous 6 May 2022 0 Comment

Last year, there were 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services, according to the American Library Association. Photo: The Nashville Public Library’s banned books library card 06 April 2022 | CNN...

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Updated: Chris Hedges and Abby Martin: The latest YouTube ‘Disappeared’ Victims

James Porteous 31 March 2022 0 Comment

Don’t dare say that Hedges and Martin were ‘deplatformed.’ The entire archives of their RT programs were erased from YouTube. ADDED Below: The Progressive Misleadership Class (w/ Chris Hedges) (video) Bad Faith site 31...

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Hair: The musical that ‘changed theatre forever’

James Porteous 7 March 2022 0 Comment

On 27 September 1968, with the opening of Hair, the curtain fell on centuries of theatre censorship. Photo: 27 September 2018 | Sarah Lee | BBC News On 27 September 1968 the curtain fell...

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Google announces moves to censor RT and Sputnik (2017)

James Porteous 2 March 2022 0 Comment

Congressional hearings on “extremist content” on the internet were replete with demands for social media companies to take decisive action in censoring “harmful content.” 21 NOVEMBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 21 November 2017...

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Quebec: Court upholds fines to theatres where stage actors smoked during performances

James Porteous 14 November 2021 0 Comment

They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it forbids actors seeking to capture a play’s essence from smoking even prop cigarettes onstage. 10 November 2021 | Jacob Serebrin | The...

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Actress Zhao Wei removed from Chinese ‘internet’

James Porteous 31 August 2021 0 Comment

It is bizarrely easy for authorities to ‘remove’ material from the Chinese ‘internet.’ Offending material can disappear within seconds of being posted. Or, as in this case, retroactively. 30 August 2021 | EAMON BARRETT...

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Obituary: William G. Clotworthy, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Censor (95)

James Porteous 28 August 2021 0 Comment

A self-described “professional square,” he fell in love with the show, and worked with its writers to tweak questionable material. Cast members called him “Dr. No.” Photo: William G. Clotworthy shortly before his retirement...

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Hong Kong to Censor, Retroactively Ban Films

James Porteous 26 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES The proposed Film Censorship Ordinance gives the city’s censors wider powers and increases the maximum jail sentence to three years for illegal screenings. 24 August 2021 | Abid Rahman |...

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The political history of dubbing in films

James Porteous 14 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy As an English-speaker in Europe I must say I was surprised (and...

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Apple Daily Diary: The end of ‘free’ journalism in Hong Kong?

James Porteous 27 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Lam Man-chung, executive editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, applauds colleagues on the paper’s last day. Photograph: Lam Yik/Reuters 27 June 2021 | Anonymous | Guardian A Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of...

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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper vows to carry on following ‘clampdown’

James Porteous 18 June 2021 0 Comment

More trouble at Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong newspaper with the arrest of Chan Pui-man for allegedly violating National Security Law. 18 June 2021 | Staff | Apple Daily Junior journalists generally like to refer...

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Florida high school alters 80 yearbook photos to mask cleavage

James Porteous 26 May 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Freshman Riley O’Keefe’s yearbook photo was edited to cover more of her chest. Dozens of other female students’ images were also altered. 25 May 2021 | Christina Zdanowicz, | CNN Flipping open a...