NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Chinese officials wanted Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to be fired for his tweet supporting anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, and that the league dismissed the request.
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Apple removed a smartphone app that allows Hong Kong residents to report police movements from its online store Thursday after an official Chinese newspaper accused the company of facilitating illegal behavior.
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In response to the NBA’s defending Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey’s freedom of speech, China canceled events scheduled with the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets.
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The NBA’s lucrative interests in China are under threat, but the league enjoys an important piece of leverage that could carry it through the crisis: It’s the only game in town.
Read moreTiffany & Co. have removed a tweet showing a woman covering one eye after Chinese consumers accused the jeweler of supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
Read moreCollege students in San Diego County saw two court victories this summer in First Amendment cases challenging how mandatory student fees are allocated by schools. It’s a trend legal experts say will continue as alternative student groups challenge who gets access to funds raised by students, with lack of funding amounting to censorship.
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A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure up evil spirits.
Read moreLawyers for Google and the website Prager University squared off before a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday over whether YouTube censors the conservative platform in violation of the First Amendment.
Read moreGoogle unfairly censors videos on LGBTQ issues, the Divino Group claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreEurope’s top court backed Lithuania on Friday for barring broadcasts of a Russian propaganda channel except as part of a pay-per-view subscription.
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President Donald Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest, but which violate the service’s rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation and Twitter’s reasons for publishing it anyway. Users will have to tap through the warning to see the underlying message.
Read moreArizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.
Read moreAfter years of pressure to crack down on hatred and bigotry, Facebook has banned Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.”
Read moreReviving a woman’s claims against Hunt County for its sheriff’s policy of deleting negative comments from its official Facebook page and banning users, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the plaintiff sufficiently pleaded that the county “had an explicit policy of viewpoint discrimination.”
Read moreRussia’s lower chamber of parliament has adopted a bill that would expand government control over the internet, raising fears of widespread censorship.
Read moreSomewhere in the shadows of federal bureaucracy, there was an issue about the drinking habits of Augusto Pinochet. The National Security Archive, an advocate for open government, had for years tried to gain access to intelligence files about the Chilean dictator, his human rights abuses and his ties to the United States.
Read moreRussian lawmakers Thursday approved a bill that would expand government control over the internet and whose opponents fear heralds a new era of widespread censorship.
Read moreExecutives from Facebook and Twitter defended their platforms Wednesday against claims they censor conservative voices, pointing to an internal study conducted this year showing posts by Republican and Democratic lawmakers were viewed at the same rate.
Read moreAustralia’s Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could send social media executives to prison if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings.
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