Read more censorship stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1711/censorship.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:52:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74165/china-censors-obama-speech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s entreaty for greater personal freedoms in China did not reach most of nation’s residents, apparently because of a last-minute decision by censors. Though authorities initially agreed to broadcast the speech, which Obama hoped would be the central event of his China visit, all national transmission was cut after...http://www.newser.com/story/74165/china-censors-obama-speech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 14:41:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71546/uk-gags-guardian-but-twitter-airs-suppressed-story.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Guardian has been slapped with an unprecedented gag order forbidding it from reporting on a question in the British parliament, as well as who asked the question and why it's being gagged. The paper says constitutional rights are being infringed upon and it's already suing—but meanwhile, the suppressed...http://www.newser.com/story/71546/uk-gags-guardian-but-twitter-airs-suppressed-story.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 6:07:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71085/justices-cite-free-speech-in-animal-abuse-videos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court seems likely to back an appellate court ruling that said depictions of animal cruelty are protected as free speech by the First Amendment. In arguments today, the justices considered the case of a man convicted of selling dogfighting videos under a 1999 law that equates videos of...http://www.newser.com/story/71085/justices-cite-free-speech-in-animal-abuse-videos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 16:00:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70797/colleges-use-student-blogs-as-free-pr.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagColleges are loosening the reins on student bloggers in hopes that a dose of candid commentary will lure prospective applicants. At MIT, for instance, bloggers paid by the admissions office go about their work with no fear of censorship. That policy has caused some friction—including a spat between the...http://www.newser.com/story/70797/colleges-use-student-blogs-as-free-pr.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 12:10:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69934/activists-behind-fake-post-prank-arrested.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice today arrested three activists who were distributing a parody issue of the New York Post , Daily Finance reports. Volunteers all over New York were distributing the phony paper, which was intended to call attention to climate change. But when some tried distributing it in front of the Post ’s...http://www.newser.com/story/69934/activists-behind-fake-post-prank-arrested.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Sep 2009 13:58:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68843/yale-slammed-for-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCriticism is continuing to mount against Yale University, even from its own professors and alumni, for publishing The Cartoons That Shook the World —while censoring the cartoons that shook the world, reports AP. Yale University Press yanked the Danish caricatures from a book about the protests they spawned out of...http://www.newser.com/story/68843/yale-slammed-for-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 7:55:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68706/china-orders-websites-to-register-names-of-users.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Chinese government has quietly instructed news websites there to require new users and commenters to log on under their true identities, the New York Times reports. Netizens in China have long resisted the so-called “real name system,” which the government claims engenders “social responsibility” and greater “civility.” Those opposed...http://www.newser.com/story/68706/china-orders-websites-to-register-names-of-users.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 14:50:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68668/opposition-to-school-speech-silly-gibbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRobert Gibbs fired back today at critics of President Obama's planned address to school children, calling it "a little bit of the silly season," the Hill reports. Noting that that Ronald Reagan and the elder President Bush both made school addresses, he painted Obama's critics as censors, making a reference...http://www.newser.com/story/68668/opposition-to-school-speech-silly-gibbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 17:10:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68637/gq-buries-story-on-putins-dark-rise-to-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGQ is keeping a tight lid on one of its own articles that questions the Russian government’s involvement in the 1999 bombings that catapulted Vladimir Putin to power, NPR reports. GQ owner Condé Nast operates in Russia, where dissent is often met with crippling “audits.” So management decided the issue...http://www.newser.com/story/68637/gq-buries-story-on-putins-dark-rise-to-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 13:54:13 CDT