Questions tagged [censorship]
for questions about claims based on censorship.
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Did the BBC censor a non-binary character in Transformers: EarthSpark?
Bleeding Cool, a news site focused on comics and other pop culture, reported that the BBC censored a scene in Transformers: EarthSpark in which the character Nightshade discusses how they are non-...
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Does Tweeting "from the river to the sea" result in a suspension from Twitter?
As reported by Jewish Press, Musk first Tweeted,
Yes, “decolonization” necessarily implies a Jewish genocide, thus it is unacceptable to any reasonable person
Musk since clarified with
As I said ...
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Is the leaked Aiden Hale "manifesto" authentic?
The 2023 Nashville school shooting was carried out by a transgender man, Aiden Hale.
Conservative political commentator Steven Crowder tweeted some photos of handwritten notes in a notebook, ...
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Did the US government claim that it has the right to control "cognitive infrastructure", i.e. thoughts?
A 8 July 2023 tweet contained a snippet of an America This Week vodcast, with author Walter Kirn:
Kirn: The thing that stunned me the most was the Government's contention repeated in the ruling that ...
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Do Huawei phones delete videos/photos of anti-Covid-restrictions protests?
A highly retweeted tweet claims:
Chinese social media users report Huawei phones automatically deleting^* videos of the protests that took place in China, without notifying the owners.
* Not sure if ...
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Was there recent book burning in Canada?
Australian new source News.com.au reports
On Tuesday, it was reported in Canadian media that in 2019 a “flame
purification ceremony” was held by the French language school board
Conseil scolaire ...
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Did Youtube take down Dr. Pierre Kory's congressional testimony?
Bret Weinstein claimed in an interview on Triggernometry:
They also removed Pierre Cory's congressional testimony. He testified
in front of the [US] Senate on the very same topic and YouTube removed
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Does China censor online discussions of female orgasms?
A Washington Post article describes how people in China were recently discussing certain taboo subjects using the Clubhouse app:
They asked questions about the protests in Hong Kong, reports of mass ...
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Did GitHub collaborate with Chinese authorities to remove the “#2020 nCov memory” page on GitHub?
The #2020 nCov memory page [former URL] was a GitHub page. Qz explains:
The project, which was started by seven volunteers based around the world, chronicles and collects personal narratives and ...
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Is Facebook deleting Facebook Pages for criticizing the police?
According to WSWS.org,
The banned pages include highly popular postings by groups opposing and publicizing incidents of police violence such as Police the Police, Cop Block and Filming Cops [...]
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Was Pac-man originally named "Puck-man"?
I always thought this quote from Scott Pilgrim to be right, since I had no reason to think otherwise:
Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd
think it was because he ...
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Are Dr. Zakir Naik's speeches banned in the UK, Canada, and Malaysia?
NDTV, which is currently India's Most Trusted TV Media Brand, claims:
Mr Naik's speeches are banned in the UK, Canada and Malaysia.
This post by The Daily Star (Bangladesh's most widely circulated ...
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Does Twitter censor content with a double standard? [closed]
If you google search "twitter double standard censorship", there's certainly no shortage of people claiming that Twitter censors content with a double standard. Essentially, the claim will take ...
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Are movies with aircraft incidents not shown on planes?
CinemaSins (a YouTube channel of movie critiques) often points out movies that 'instantly make themselves unavailable for in-flight viewing due to plane-crash sequence' (e.g. their review of Fight ...
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