CATEGORY: Index in the Press

Film censors in the United Kingdom will be able to ban Brits from accessing websites that stream especially kinky X-rated videos, if a proposed change in the law gets up. Read the full article

Late on Wednesday, the government's planned amendment to the Digital Economy Bill—which, if unopposed by parliament, will force ISPs to block porn sites that refuse to provide adequate age verification mechanisms—was published online. The tabled...

New proposals to force internet service providers to block sites hosting sexually explicit content amount to draconian censorship, campaigners say. Read the full article

Web users in the UK will be banned from accessing websites portraying a range of non-conventional sexual acts, under a little discussed clause to a government bill currently going through parliament. Read the full article

Christians in Ireland feel unable to express their opinions on same-sex marriage, the CEO of free speech group Index on Censorship has said. Read the full article

Norwegian singer-songwriter Moddi brings his interesting collection of reworked banned tracks to London for a special show in support of the Music in Exile Fellowship. Read the full article

Students at City University of London, home to one of the country’s most respected journalism schools, have voted to ban the Sun, Daily Mail and Express from its campus. Read the full article

Christians in the UK believe their views are being "shut down" by wider society, the CEO of Index on Censorship Jodie Ginsberg has said. Speaking at Spiked's 'Enemies of the state: Religious freedom and the new repression' event in London on...

Italy in January-September 2016 had the highest number of incidents of threats against journalists and media outfits in the EU, a study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights showed Thursday. Read the full article

The EU has in recent years used trade agreements as a venue for promotion of human rights, notably freedom of speech.  Yet, as trade negotiators seek to wrap up trade negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), the EU seems to have...