Tag: censored

15 SEP

Careful what you wish for: ThinkProgress gets censored by Facebook fact-checkers

Left-wing opinion site ThinkProgress has found itself censored by Facebook’s ‘fact checkers,’ just weeks after calling on the social network to censor right-wing polemicist Alex Jones. A ThinkProgress article on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, published Sunday, was deemed ‘fake news’ by Facebook’s fact checkers. The article itself claimed that Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. […]

01 AUG

Google plans censored search engine for China

(Reuters) — Alphabet’s Google is planning a censored version of its search engine for China that will block websites and certain search terms, The Intercept reported on Wednesday citing internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans. The project is a code named “Dragonfly” and has been underway since the spring of 2017, the […]

16 APR

Avengers Infinity War CENSORED in Indonesia: ‘I’m SHOCKED’ says director – Here's why

The Marvel epic is expected to be a 12A in the UK and PG-13 in the US, but it turns out some of the movie has been cut for its release in Indonesia. During an Avengers Infinity War press conference in Singapore, director Joe Russo discovered that seven minutes of the film had been removed […]

02 MAR

Immortality, disagree, emigrate, and personality cult — here’s every word and phrase China censored after criticism of Xi Jinping’s potentially unending reign

GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images Earlier this week China announced it would be ending term limits for its president. That means President Xi Jinping, who was limited to two five-year terms like nearly all of his predecessors, can rule indefinitely. The change sparked a backlash online, with criticism flooding local Weibo and WeChat platforms. Unsurpringly, popular phrases were […]

10 OCT

Google Maps Street View: THIS creepy image has been censored due to one disturbing visitor

Google Maps Street View unearths some weird and wonderful discoveries.  From the amusing to the downright strange, there are many images that have drawn attention for all the wrong reasons.  One photo captured by the Street View camera had a creepy creature hiding within it.  The image was taken on the streets of Nancy in […]

23 SEP

Google Maps MYSTERY: No-one knows why THESE five places have been CENSORED

Most people assume that Google Maps lists every single street, city and country around the world. But there some mysterious places that don’t appear as they should. Five of the most mysteriously blurred-out places were revealed by Youtube user, Dark5, in a video. The information was uploaded in June 2016, and has been a viral […]

05 JUN

Saudi ‘censored’ swimming pool ad turns woman into inflatable ball (PHOTO)

Published time: 5 Jun, 2017 23:23 An advertisement for a Saudi Arabian hardware giant promoting swimming pools has galvanized the Twitteratti after it replaced a woman in the photo with an inflatable ball. The image was tweeted by Saudi retail company SACO on a Twitter page highlighting its latest offers. The tweet states that the […]

03 APR

Media coverage of Iraqi Mosul op ‘censored & suppressed’ – RT reporter in embattled city

The Iraqi Army keeps press coverage of its operation in Mosul “censored and suppressed,” only allowing access to certain locations, RT’s Murad Gazdiev, reporting from the scene, says, as the UN warns of soaring civilian casualties. When Murad Gazdiev arrived in the embattled city to cover the latest events, Iraqi officers warned his crew not […]

28 MAR

Smurfette censored from Israeli movie poster in ultra-religious city (PHOTO)

Published time: 28 Mar, 2017 20:33 A fictional, blue-skinned animated character in the children’s cartoon ‘The Smurfs’ has been censored from film posters in Bnei Brak, an ultra Jewish Orthodox city in Israel because she resembles a woman. Adventure animation ‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ is due to hit the cinema screens on April 7, with […]