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It's at this point that you reconsider your status update.

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A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook:

We spend a lot of time thinking about what to post on Facebook. Should you argue that political point your high school friend made? Do your friends really want to see yet another photo of your cat (or baby)? Most of us have, at one time or another, started writing something and then, probably wisely, changed our minds.

Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typedeven if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.

Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper written by two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. (The paper was also published at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.*) It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them.

The study examined aborted status updates, posts on other people's timelines, and comments on others' posts. To collect the text you type, Facebook sends code to your browser. That code automatically analyzes what you type into any text box and reports metadata back to Facebook.

Storing text as you type isn't uncommon on other websites. For example, if you use Gmail, your draft messages are automatically saved as you type them. Even if you close the browser without saving, you can usually find a (nearly) complete copy of the email you were typing in your Drafts folder. Facebook is using essentially the same technology here. The difference is that Google is saving your messages to help you. Facebook users don't expect their unposted thoughts to be collected, nor do they benefit from it.

Facebook, on the other hand, is analyzing thoughts that we have intentionally chosen not to share.

It is not clear to the average reader how this data collection is covered by Facebook's privacy policy. In Facebooks Data Use Policy, under a section called "Information we receive and how it is used," its made clear that the company collects information you choose to share or when you "view or otherwise interact with things. But nothing suggests that it collects content you explicitly dont share. Typing and deleting text in a box could be considered a type of interaction, but I suspect very few of us would expect that data to be saved. When I reached out to Facebook, a representative told me that the company believes this self-censorship is a type of interaction covered by the policy.

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China is tightening its grip on the internet by requiring internet users to register their real names for some internet services and disrupting the services of businesses that give people the tools to circumvent the "Great Firewall".

According to China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the new registration rule will apply to people who use services such as blogs, instant messaging services and online discussion forums.

It is partially aimed at weeding out users with misleading online handles such as "Putin" and "People's Daily".

The onus will be on internet companies to enforce these new regulations which begin on March 1, meaning they will incur extra costs in order to comply with the order.

Chinese internet companies that run Weibo, the country's equivalent of Twitter which has 60 million active daily users, were ordered to implement real name registrations in 2012.

Jason Ng, who analyses online censorship at The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, said that caused some online users to self-censor because of the added risk of getting into trouble.

The latest announcement follows a disruption of three providers of virtual private networks (VPN) that are popular in China.

Internet users who install VPNs on their mobile phones or computers can access content that cannot be seen or used in China such as Facebook, Google, and some foreign news websites.

Having a VPN also means users can read posts that have been erased from Weibo.

This is because VPNs create a path that enables people to jump over the virtual Chinese firewall.

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TIME Entertainment movies Malaysia Bans Fifty Shades of Grey Chuck ZlotnickUniversal Pictures Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star in Fifty Shades of Grey The head of the censorship board called the film more pornography than a movie.

Malaysia will not allow the release of Fifty Shades of Grey after the countrys censorship board expressed concerns over its explicit sexual content.

The Malaysian Film Censorship Board denied a certificate to the much anticipated adaptation of the steamy novel, which is set for wide release in the U.S. on Feb. 13, Variety reports.

The board made a decision in view of the film containing scenes that are not of natural sexual content, said Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid, head of the Malaysian Film Censorship Board, according to Variety. The film is more pornography than a movie, he said.

The film, based on the erotic romantic best-seller by E.L. James, has already spawned boycott campaigns in the U.S. over its lengthy sex scenes.

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Abstract

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States, said President Barack Obama on December 19, referring to Sonys North Korea fiasco. That is exactly what is happening, however, and with a far more important global actor, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), which is censoring not just our movies, but also our universities. Efforts to influence, if not corrupt, our culture-making industries and indoctrinate the American people in a favorable view of the PRC regime may pose a threat to our long-term national security. The U.S. Congress is right to ask the Government Accountability Office to look into the matter, and its probe should be expanded beyond the GAO.

On December 19, 2014, President Barack Obama took Sony Pictures to task for bowing to North Korean threats and withholding the release of the movie The Interview. Among other things, the President said:

Mr. Obama complained that Sony had not spoken with him before pulling The Interview, but such censoring is already taking place in the United States on a more insidious level, and it is perpetrated by a country of much greater importance: the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). In order to see why, Americans need to understand Chinas allure to U.S. corporations.

In October 2014, the PRC became the worlds biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), bumping the U.S. from that position for the first time since 1873.[2] Since the beginning of economic reform in 1978, the PRCs real per capita GDP has been growing at an average annual rate of 8 percent.[3] Given this level of growth and a population of 1.4 billion people, it was only a matter of time before China passed the United States as the worlds overall largest economy.

On a per capita basis, Chinas GDP is still well behind that of the United States ($6,807 vs. $53,143).[4] China, however, achieved this milestone five years ahead of schedule,[5] and the International Monetary Fund now estimates that before 2020, Chinas economy will be 20 percent larger than that of the United States.[6]

It is therefore to no ones surprise that China presents an enticing allure to U.S. businesses. Two-way trade between these two countries amounted to $562.4 billion in 2013almost 15 percent of Americas international trade. Only Canada, with whom the U.S. shares a 5,525-mile border, edges out China, but just barely, with a bilateral trade of $632 billion.[7] The clich that deodorant makers look at China and see two billion armpits is all too true.

This is the case not just for manufacturers, but for most trades, and Americas culture-making industries are not exempt. As business with China has taken off in the past few decades, there has been a surge in demand for learning about China. Universities and film studios, for example, today depend more than ever on Chinese money.

As a trade partner, China presents problems that Canada does not. Though there is a rough consensus in Washington that trade is good for America and that growing exposure to international markets will push China further in the direction of open markets, the authoritarian nature of Chinas regime and its objectives[8] gives many Americans pause. Consequently, the United States has implemented a series of export control regimes designed to limit manufactured goods that are explicitly military or dual use.[9] This problem, however, is not limited to military affairs; the PRC poses a similar problem in culture-making industries.

Without question, rapid economic growth has given greater economic opportunity to hundreds of millions of Chinese people, but predictions that such growth would lead to greater political opening have not panned out. On the contrary, hopes that new President Xi Jinping would curb the states power and introduce rule of law were dashed once again by the Communist Party Central Committee in October 2014. In fact, intolerance of dissent and secretive purges have intensified.[10] As The Washington Post noted, though Chinas own constitution guarantees freedom of expression, the government recently imprisoned a Tibetan abbot and an 81-year-old writer who criticized Mao Zedong. Meanwhile, Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo was rewarded by his government with an 11-year prison sentence, while his wife has been confined to house arrest.

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Xenosaga Episode 1 CENSORED - Albedo Piazzolla Cutscene Movie 1 - Video Game Censorship
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China Targets Virtual Private Networks In Censorship Push
The Chinese government acknowledged this week it is targeting virtual private networks as it tightens its censorship of China #39;s Internet traffic. Follow Clif...

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