Posts Tagged ‘pornography’
January 2nd, 2010
China arrested more than 5000 people in a crackdown on internet pornography in 2009, officials said yesterday vowing tougher online policing in the new year as a key element of “state security”. Officials did not say how many people had subsequently been put on trial. Authorities in December offered rewards of up to US$ 1465 to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography. Read more here (http://www NULL.telegraph NULL.co NULL.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6921568/China-arrests-5000-for-internet-pornography-offences NULL.html)
September 25th, 2009
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications companies and internet service providers “shall block pornographic websites”. Many of the websites to be blocked, however, are those of the opposition, religious groups and human rights organisations.
Read more
here (http://www NULL.ifex NULL.org/bahrain/2009/09/23/websites_blocked/)
September 1st, 2009
Editor-in-chief, Fred M’membe and the entire editorial staff of Zambia’s The Post have been summoned to appear in the dock after they published an article critical of the “pornography” charges brought against their colleague, news-editor Chansa Kabwela. Local magistrate, Charles Kafunda has charged the group with contempt of court and ordered that they appear before him on Wednesday.
Read more here ( http://allafrica NULL.com/stories/200908311648 NULL.html)
August 5th, 2009
Chansa Kabwela, Editor of Zambia’s largest newspaper, the Post, is on trial over supposed distribution of “pornographic” images. Kabwela sent two images of women giving birth on hospital grounds without medical assistance to Zambian vice-president, George Kunda. Kabwela was hoping to highlight the negative consequences of a recent nurses strike, however, her supporters believe that the current charges may be politically motivated as the Post has in the past exposed a great deal of government corruption.
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here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8185221 NULL.stm)
July 8th, 2009
On 30 June, the Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko, approved a law to make the possession of pornography a criminal offence. Punishment will include a fine and imprisonment of up to three years. The law has one loophole, specifying that pornography can be used for “medical reasons”.
Read more
here (http://mosnews NULL.com/society/2009/06/30/ukrporno/)
June 23rd, 2009
China has confirmed it will continue with plans to force every computer in the country to run controversial filtering program Green Dam. The move follows news that Google have agreed to filter search results in China to screen out pornographic or explicit material. In a Twitter posting, prominent blogger Ai Weiwei appealed for an Internet boycott on the softwares launch in July, the same day of the anniversary to mark founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Read more
here
(http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/23/china-censorship)
June 22nd, 2009
New documents reveal that the FBI worked desperately to block the landmark 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat in a vain attempt to curb the spread of permissive thinking in the US, according to newly-released files containing 4,800 pages of information. Read more
here
(http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/film/2009/jun/22/fbi-investigation-deep-throat-porn-film)
April 28th, 2009
Thirty years on, the Williams Committee Report still provides a better framework for film classification than the lamentable Obscene Publications Act, says
Julian Petley
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