Censorship
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(También en Español) News of Note: Intimate scenes to be banned from Egyptian public TV (AGI) Cairo – A group of Islamic supervisors of the Egyptian Public Broadcaster will be in charge of removing ‘immoral ‘ footage from films the network has in its archives. The ban will apply to scenes featuring hugging, kissing and…
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Anonymous hacks Chinese websites
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(También en Español) News of Note: Anonymous hacks Chinese websites Messages by the international hacking group Anonymous went up on a number of Chinese government websites on Thursday to protest internet restrictions. On a Twitter account established in late March, Anonymous China listed the websites it said it had hacked over the last several days.…
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PayPal backtracks on “obscene” e-book policy
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(También en Español) News of Note: PayPal backtracks on “obscene” e-book policy (Reuters) – PayPal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., is backtracking on its policy against processing sales of e-books containing themes of rape, bestiality or incest after protests from authors and anti-censorship activist groups. PayPal’s new policy will focus only on…