Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/19/facebook-meta-vietnam-government-censorship/
"The company is not unique in removing sensitive content in Vietnam. Since 2019, Google, which owns YouTube, has received more than 2,000 government requests to take down content in Vietnam and has complied with the vast majority of them, according to company data. TikTok says it removed or restricted more than 300 posts in the country last year for violating local law."

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/vienna-museums-turn-to-onlyfans-to-avoid-censorship
"A group of museums in Vienna have banded together to create an OnlyFans account where, for $5 per month, subscribers can view works of fine art including the aforementioned sculpture (a nude female figure made of limestone and dating back to circa 25,000 BCE), paintings by the expressionists Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl, work by graphic artist Koloman Moser, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, and more."

"The initiative is a response to guidelines on other, more mainstream social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, that keep the museums from sharing images with nudity there."

http://tribune.com.pk/story/855030/facebook-censored-54-posts-for-blasphemy-in-pakistan-in-second-half-of-2014/
"This, however, was down from the massive 1,773 pieces of content blocked in Pakistan by the social networking site in the first half of 2014 following requests made by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Ministry of Information Technology to block content for blasphemy and criticism of the state."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/15/facebook-blocks-bans-users-sharing-guardian-article-showing-aboriginal-men-in-chains
"Facebook has blocked and in some cases banned users who tried to share a Guardian article about the site incorrectly blocking an image of Aboriginal men in chains."

"The post was made in the context of the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, claiming there was no slavery in Australia, before he backed down on those comments a day later."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/27/facebook-apologises-flagging-plymouth-hoe-offensive-term
"Plymouth Hoe is one of the most well-known sites in the UK’s seafaring history, the spot where Sir Francis Drake reputedly finished a game of bowls before heading out to fight the Spanish Armada.

But Facebook has found itself in hot water after challenging some posts from local people who innocently mentioned the Hoe, mistakenly thinking they were using a misogynist term."

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22519433/tiktok-intersex-ban-mistake-moderation-transparency "TikTok says the repeat removal of the intersex hashtag was a mistake"

https://www.eff.org/tossedout/twin-horror-filmmakers-soska-sisters-suspended-twice-twitter
"Jen and Sylvia Soska are identical twin filmmakers known as The Soska Sisters. The sisters specialize in horror and have a cult following, with more than 50,000 fans on Twitter. But in July 2019, they faced a horror of their own: Their Twitter account was suspended right after they released the trailer for their upcoming film, a remake of 1977's "Rabid."

Stills from the film were featured on the cover of two magazines but were too much for Twitter's moderators, who suspended the account for containing too much "gore, violence, and hate,""

https://www.jfsribbon.org/2024/11/blog-post_23.html There was a conference last month in #Japan (which was scheduled on short notice) to discuss dealing with the urgent issue of financial censorship, a serious threat to #HumanRights. #FreeSpeech

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 On request, here's the piece again which goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. It criticizes censorship, prohibition, puritanism.

It's been a while since I last updated this, so maybe I'll expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech

Politics based on dehumanizing someone is problematic.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html Court rules city of #Corvallis violated #FirstAmendment by moving to expel city councilor from council over climate speech. #FreeSpeech #Oregon

While the fediverse is put forward by some as a solution to social media, the fediverse itself has a serious problem with inter-instance censorship which is very arbitrary and capricious. #FreeSpeech

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/23/asia-pacific/society/thailand-same-sex-marriage/ #Thailand now has same sex marriage. #HumanRights

"You are not allowed to support the Republican Party on this instance."
I saw something like that in an instance's rules.

It reminds me of how in the U.S., there are only really two political parties. In a lot of other countries, there are more.

https://www.newarab.com/news/incites-sex-work-libya-bans-rap-music-amid-conservative-turn
"Authorities in eastern #Libya have imposed a sweeping ban on rap music, the latest move in a broader crackdown on artistic expression in the conflict-riven country."
#FreeSpeech

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2ae182b849c5937373cd168835c724ba17804de2 #Japan gay magazine removed from #Amazon Kindle Store. #FreeSpeech