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Explained: The ‘emergency powers’ used by India to block BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi
Fp Explainers •The government has directed YouTube and Twitter to take down links to the BBC documentary, 'India: The Modi Question', which revisits PM Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Under emergency provisions of the IT Rules, 2021, it can block content ‘detrimental' to India
The British monarchy has always controlled how much the public sees of it. Will King Charles III change that?
•Censorship and royal control are not uncommon. The same can be expected at Charles III's coronation. The royal family's success is dependent on the palace's careful curation of their image, as well as their ongoing battle with the media over what can and cannot be shown
US Education Department investigates removal of LGBTQ books
•Censorship efforts have ranged from local communities such as Orange County, Florida, where the graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir” was removed from high school shelves and a Tennessee school board’s pulling Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” to statewide initiatives
Internal 'Twitter Files' released by Elon Musk details censorship and suppression of information at Twitter
•The 51-year-old, who has vowed to turn Twitter into a platform of free speech, had been teasing the release of the internal files for several days
As Beijing rages over Taiwan, mood on China's streets muted
•China's tight grip over the internet, with a massive system of censorship that scrubs posts casting the Communist Party's policies in a negative light, has limited public debate over just how far Beijing should go in its showdown over Taiwan
Top Gun, Thor and other big budget Hollywood movies finally giving China the cold shoulder – know why
Umang Sharma •Over the years multiple Hollywood films have been banned in China if they did not meet country's censorship standards. However, it seems the tides have changes with big budget Hollywood flicks actually deciding to refrain from releasing in Chinese markets
Explained: The significance of Margaret Atwood's 'unburnable' edition of The Handmaid’s Tale
Fp Explainers •As a symbol against censorship and book bans, Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood announced an ‘unburnable’ edition of her most famous work, The Handmaid’s Tale
China reinforces tight control over deadliest plane crash mystery; authorities enforce strict censorship
•China Eastern flight MU5375 was travelling from Kunming to Guangzhou last month when it inexplicably plunged from an altitude of 29,000 feet into a mountainside, killing all 132 people on board
Before Fight Club, here's how China has imposed alternate endings on Hollywood and Hong Kong movies
•Over the years, a number of Western movies and television shows — including Men in Black 3, Cloud Atlas, and Pirates of the Caribbean — have been altered in China before they were shown to local audiences.
Explained: Hong Kong proposes changes to film censorship law, expands ongoing crackdown on political dissent
Fp Staff •On Tuesday, Hong Kong authorities unveiled a new hardened censorship law which would cover any titles that had previously been given a green light.