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Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47]
Internet censorship in the United States of America is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States.The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.
Internet Watch Foundation: 5 December 2008: 9 December 2008 (Unblocked by IWF) Wayback Machine: archive.org Web archive: Site incompatibility with Cleanfeed: Internet Watch Foundation [26] 14 January 2009: 16 January 2009 [27] FileServe: fileserve.com File hosting: Mistake Internet Watch Foundation [28] 16 November 2011 [29] 18 November 2011 ...
Streaming: English: 17 September 2018–present: Blocked [24] Roblox: roblox.com roblox.com Gaming Multilingual December 2021 – present Blocked (Separate Chinese version exists) Steam Store: store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com Entertainment Multilingual 25 December 2021 [25] [26] –present
Admins responded that Reddit is a platform for free speech and discussion, and would continue to allow subreddits that challenge the consensus views on the pandemic. [147] In protest of Reddit's response, the moderators of 135 subreddits (including r/florida, r/futurology, r/pokemongo, r/startrek, and r/tifu) made their subreddits private.
In April 2019, the Senate passed this bill in response to the Christchurch mosque shooting, which was live-streamed and circulated online.It requires websites that provide a hosting service to "ensure the expeditious removal" of audio or visual material documenting "abhorrent violent conduct" (including terrorist acts, murder, attempted murder, torture, rape or kidnapping), produced by a ...
On 1 March 2022, the Asia Video Industry Association's Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) announced that it had obtained a court order from the Singapore High Court for the blocking of 30 illegal streaming sites and nearly 150 domain names associated with those sites.