Tag: censorship

“The silencing of the Munchkins must rank as one of the most inept acts of censorship Britain has seen.”

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Nick Cohen, having some fun with language over Judy Garland’s latest hit single: Its decision to ban every part of the song except for a five-second clip in a news report shows clearly something that many people outside the media rarely understand: the BBC folds under pressure. During the debate on the politicians’ plans to regulate the press and news websites, many people have asked why journalists should worry when regulation works so well at the BBC. The behaviour of the BBC last week explains why. Tory MPs and the Daily Mail picked on the BBC rather than iTunes or YouTube because

Violet Blue flags up the "adult" problem on Google Plus

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I don’t think a lot of people realize yet that the default photo and image albums are Picassa, which has zero tolerance for nudity or borderline content, and does not offer users content rating controls (such as the ability to mark things as “moderate” or “restricted”) to remain within the Picassa/G+ content guidelines. So nobody under 13 is allowed in, but don’t expect there to be anything there than content for a 13 year old. Riiiight.

Once they were the darkest secrets, now banned books are exhibition pieces

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The National Library of Scotland’s summer exhibition will be on censorship and banned books. In the ‘Banned books’ exhibition, visitors will see books that have been challenged or stifled on the grounds of religion, politics or morality. Although we concentrate on the UK we have included material that has been banned, censored or challenged in other countries too. Runs from Jun 24 to October 31.