49 stories tagged censorship, newest first.
90 points by Tomte | 64 comments
An opinion piece in comic form on Xtra by webcomic duo Hazel and Bell about how social media algorithms and payment processor restrictions are hurting indie queer webcomics.
1320 points by farrokhi | 456 comments
Quad9 blog post announcing it will withdraw its free DNS resolver service from France after a French court ruling in favor of beIN ordering DNS blocking.
392 points by DeepLogin | 200 comments
MeidasNews article reporting that Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide protest day; the page shows an access-restricted bot block.
66 points by Tomte | 40 comments
Anil Dash blog post arguing against the euphemism "unalive" and the platform-driven algospeak that self-censors language on social media.
543 points by pieterr | 319 comments
Reddit post in r/facebook claiming Meta took down a critical video about its Meta AI Glasses that was filmed at Meta; page blocked by Reddit network security.
92 points by 1659447091 | 80 comments
BBC News article reporting that the US has criticised Australia's proposed laws letting users opt out of social media recommendation algorithms as censorship.
552 points by captainmuon | 436 comments
Announcement from Autistici/Inventati that its privacy-focused activist hosting infrastructure is shutting down after being designated a global terrorist organization.
445 points by rootkea | 325 comments
The Hindu news report that India's government ordered GitHub to remove Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat after protesters used it during internet restrictions.
828 points by taubek | 120 comments
Gergely Orosz's blog post describing how startup Pollen tried to get his article about its CEO and CTO removed, and how Google assisted the takedown.
463 points by cemdervis | 315 comments
An essay page titled "If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It" arguing for physical media over revocable digital licenses, with points tagged by DRM, removal, censorship, and pricing.
621 points by abawany | 269 comments
Reclaim The Net article about a Texas woman arrested over a Facebook post criticizing her town's water quality; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.
1002 points by giuliomagnifico | 427 comments
ALQST article reporting that Meta has blocked human rights organizations' accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
451 points by salkahfi | 389 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing against proposed California legislation that would restrict or censor 3D printing.
1304 points by kotaKat | 853 comments
CNN Business article reporting that TikTok users say they cannot upload anti-ICE videos, which the company attributes to technical issues.
338 points by siev | 259 comments
Rest of World article reporting that Iran is testing a two-tier internet where access is a vetted privilege for elites, potentially making its blackout permanent.
613 points by sidcool | 957 comments
A post on X by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince responding to Italy fining Cloudflare €14 million for refusing to filter pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS.
520 points by _a9 | 97 comments
Blog post from Have I Been Flocked alleging that Cyble Inc., working for Flock, used cybercrime takedown requests to try to knock the critical site offline.
400 points by pabs3 | 199 comments
ACLU article arguing that the Apple and Google app store oligopoly enables corporate and government censorship of smartphone apps; screenshot shows a donation modal overlay.
1714 points by immibis | 426 comments
AdGuard DNS blog post investigating suspicious complaints and bailiff demands pressuring it to block Archive.today amid an FBI subpoena of the site's registrar.
348 points by jjbinx007 | 318 comments
A Reddit r/DataHoarder thread about YouTube removing videos that show how to perform nonstandard Windows 11 installs; the page was blocked by Reddit's network policy.
439 points by alecmuffett | 629 comments
Alec Muffett blog post on 4chan's lawyer publishing Ofcom correspondence in which the UK regulator claims sovereign immunity while asserting powers over foreign companies.
495 points by Leftium | 216 comments
A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.
408 points by yourapostasy | 124 comments
GFW Report blog post by Mingshi Wu analyzing the leak of internal documents from Geedge Networks and MESA Lab, linked to China's Great Firewall.
509 points by whatsupdog | 354 comments
The Tribune news report on 14 people killed in Nepal as Gen Z-led protests against a social media ban led to army deployment in Kathmandu.
334 points by gloxkiqcza | 662 comments
TorrentFreak article arguing the UK could use 4chan, as it once used the Pirate Bay, to justify Online Safety Act blocking of non-pirate sites.
705 points by shaunpud | 356 comments
Blog post alleging German ISP Telefónica/O2 altered its DNS to return NXDOMAIN for the author's site after she exposed an organization it belongs to.
449 points by mrzool | 385 comments
Polygon news article on gamers mass-emailing and calling Visa and Mastercard to protest payment-processor pressure on Steam and itch.io over adult games.
546 points by 6d6b73 | 720 comments
Wired article on Steam and Itch.io removing adult games and critics' concerns that the moves amount to a slippery slope of censorship.
816 points by freedomben | 792 comments
PC Gamer article reporting Valve's confirmation that credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam.
361 points by impish9208 | 173 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that an Indian court has ordered the blocking of the encrypted email service Proton Mail in the country.
964 points by jbegley | 625 comments
Drop Site News investigative article reporting leaked data showing an Israeli government campaign of takedown requests to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram.
659 points by confusing3478 | 580 comments
A Disruptionist newsletter article reporting that Elon Musk's X is blocking links to Signal, which federal whistleblowers have used to communicate about DOGE.
746 points by rogerthis | 335 comments
DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.
745 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 542 comments
Substack post by Evan Carroll about Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange renaming or erasing Luigi Mangione's account, framed as tech serving the ruling class.
644 points by intunderflow | 381 comments
Wikipedia article on the ANI vs. Wikimedia Foundation case, with its content suspended by the Wikimedia Foundation following a Delhi High Court order.
351 points by rvz | 615 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Brazilian users are flocking to Bluesky after Brazil banned X.
567 points by southernplaces7 | 1021 comments
Politico news article on Mark Zuckerberg saying he regrets Meta yielding to White House pressure over content moderation; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
408 points by wyldfire | 248 comments
NBC News article reporting leaked emails showing Hugo Awards organizers vetted and excluded science fiction authors to avoid offending China, where the 2023 awards were held.
467 points by cratermoon | 426 comments
Guardian article on a Human Rights Watch report claiming Meta's Facebook and Instagram systematically censor pro-Palestinian content worldwide.
604 points by thunderbong | 382 comments
AP News article reporting that Nepal's government has banned TikTok, saying the app disrupts social harmony.
1322 points by mantiq | 970 comments
EFF Deeplinks post from August 2023 arguing that internet service providers should not police or block online speech, even when it is awful.
449 points by Raed667 | 208 comments
Mozilla Foundation petition opposing France's SREN bill, which would require browsers like Firefox to block government-listed websites.
584 points by the-scrabi | 248 comments
NewPipe blog announcement that newpipe.net was removed from Google search results following a DMCA takedown request.
401 points by doener | 207 comments
Tweet by Jimmy Wales contrasting Wikipedia's court fight against Turkey's ban with Elon Musk's decision to restrict tweets in Turkey.
327 points by prhrb | 222 comments
Element blog post reporting that India's central government blocked the Element app, the flagship Matrix client, among fourteen messaging apps.
692 points by andsoitis | 514 comments
Guardian article reporting Steven Spielberg's criticism of re-editing older films for modern sensitivities, including his regret over removing guns from E.T.
366 points by moose_man | 269 comments
Daily Beast opinion piece arguing that tech executives like Elon Musk are allowing authoritarian governments to censor content seen by Americans.
414 points by thunderbong | 162 comments
TorrentFreak article on a German court ruling holding host Uberspace liable for hosting the youtube-dl website, with the owner warning of privatized censorship.
388 points by remote_phone | 261 comments
Techdirt article criticizing Midjourney CEO David Holz for blocking satirical images of Xi Jinping to keep the AI image generator available in China.