All Stories: Censorship

There is little evidence to back up Donald Trump's persistent claim that social media firms "silence" or "censor" conservatives, but the notion has nonetheless...

WASHINGTON: US Pre­si­­­dent Donald Trump on Saturday accused social media platforms of “totally discriminating” against users with right-wing views while dubbing mainstream news outlets...

SHANGHAI: Google on Wednesday made available in China a new version of its translation app that is accessible without censor-evading software, a move likely...

NEW DELHI: Editors accused India’s government on Friday of imposing censorship reminiscent of the country’s 1970s emergency after it ordered a TV network off...

BEIJING: China will demand that live-streaming platforms "censor content before releasing it", state media said on Friday, as authorities seek to tighten control over...

MUMBAI: Indian filmmakers took a bitter censorship row to court, the latest dispute involving the notoriously sensitive censor board that has renewed fears over creative freedoms.

NEW YORK: Facebook on Tuesday denied allegations that it scrubs its site of news articles by and about political conservatives, amid outrage over the claims.

Here's a list of movies that were banned in Pakistan due to either strong content, explicitly sexual visual scenes or derogatory language.

TEHRAN:  Iran  is to expand what it calls "smart filtering" of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning them completely, as it used to, the government said on Friday.