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EXPLAINER MPs in the UK have voted to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation, but what has it actually done? Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly this week to proscribe the campaign group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organisation under anti-terrorism laws, putting the group on a par with armed groups…
A Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University in the United States has returned to Boston after spending more than six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana in what her lawyers call a politically motivated crackdown on free speech. Upon arrival at Boston Logan International Airport, Rumeysa Ozturk told reporters on Saturday that she…
Films that are being made in India now face three kinds of censorship, said Nandita Das, filmmaker and actor, speaking at The Huddle by The Hindu. “One is [from] the official body; then many of us have to self-censor. Then there are some self-proclaimed custodians of culture,” she said, adding that free speech is fundamental…
Daria Kozyreva used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest Russia’s war on Ukraine. A Russian court has handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Daria Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the war in Ukraine. A Reuters news agency witness in the court on Friday said…
Apple and Google have made the video-sharing app available again amid national security concerns from some US officials. TikTok has returned to the app stores of Apple and Google in the United States after President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a ban on the popular social media app, operated by Chinese technology firm ByteDance….
As a teenager, each time I crossed the boundaries of good behaviour, my father would remind me of the saying, ‘With freedom, comes responsibility.’ Liberty has an inseparable second half — that of being held accountable for actions. And the balance between these two seemingly opposite ideas inevitably comes with tension. This applies to how…
Meta, the owner of Facebook and other social media platforms, will implement major changes to its content moderation policies, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this week in a video titled, “More speech and fewer mistakes”. Among the changes, Meta’s use of fact-checking organisations will end abolished and the group will switch to a system of community…
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, says allowing fact-checkers to assess content ‘became a tool to censor’. The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, has announced the end of its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, saying that it will encourage “more speech” on its platform. The move, revealed on Tuesday,…
Of all the ways to describe Deadpool over the years, the most common one has been “Merc with a Mouth”. The fast-healing anti-hero is quite talkative, loves to crack jokes constantly at others’ or his own expense, and occasionally breaks the fourth wall, even throwing meta references thanks to awareness of his existence as a…
Islamabad, Pakistan – Some 15 years ago, famous Pakistani pop singer Shehzad Roy released a song, titled Laga Reh (Keep at it), which started with the singer recalling what he saw on TV in his childhood. “When I was 10 years old, I heard on 9 o’clock news that Pakistan is passing through a critical…
