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Reporters Without Borders condemns new cases of censorship and self-censorship

AS THE Occupy Central movement continues its pro-democracy demonstrations, local and foreign media whose coverage angers the government are suffering consequences.

Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily is paying a high price for supporting Occupy Central.

Members of a counter-movement have been surrounding the headquarters of the newspaper, which announced its pro-Occupy Central position on 11 October. For three days, the papers activities have been disrupted, with delivery trucks prevented from entering. As a result, distributors have not been fully supplied. Delivery of the International New York Times, carried by the same trucks, was also affected.

During the third day of the anti-newspaper action, the demonstrators most of them women wearing face masks defied a High Court order of 14 October that they lift the siege. But police did not proceed to arrest them, effectively allowing the delivery truck blockade to continue.

On 15 October, the BBC website suffered blocking as well. It was taken down for several hours after it ran a video showing Hong Kong police beating pro-democracy protester Ken Tsang Kin-Chiu.

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Conservative GERB party and the centrist coalition Bulgaria without Censorship are set to meet for consultations in Parliament.

BwC's Rumen Yonchev told private national NOVA TV his coalition was offering "preliminary support" to the center-right party.

Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), which won Bulgaria's general elections on October 5, is holding talks this week with all the remaining parties that made it into the National Assembly.

It failed to agree on joint government participation with right-wing Reformist Bloc, deemed its most natural ally, on Wednesday, but made a breakthrough with nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) the next day.

Bulgaria without Censorship, a coalition led by ex-journalist Nikolay Barekov's party with the same name, had the sixth-biggest number of ballots cast in the elections. It has recently portrayed itself as a centrist political entity, but has frequently changed its ideology.

The party's leadership announced in a media statement Thursday it was ready to renounce "many" of its demands for the sake of stability in Bulgaria and vowed to refrain from attempts at isolating other parties in Parliament.

Its leader Nikolay Barekov decided earlier this week to retain his seat in the European Parliament and is currently not in Bulgaria.

Despite their agreement GERB and the PF cannot form a government on their own, since they fall short of a majority by having 101 seats (whereas 121 out of 240 are needed).

A fourth party will be necessary even if BwC reaches a deal with conservatives.

GERB has also left the door open to a new meeting with Reformist Bloc representatives after all other parties have been contacted.

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GERB, Bulgaria without Censorship to Hold Gov't Talks Friday

Center-right party GERB and the Bulgaria without Censorship coalition have ended failed to reach agreement on forming a government.

Following two-hour talks on Friday, the consultations were suspended after the two formations had discussed 4 of a total of 18 topics which had been on the agenda of coalition talks with the other parties held since Monday, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.

Tsetska Tsacheva from GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) said that there would be no second meeting between the two formations.

GERB representatives made clear that the two formations had discovered diametrically opposed positions during the talks.

Meanwhile, representatives of Bulgaria without Censorship claimed that GERB had failed to acquaint them with their governance program.

Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), which won Bulgaria's general elections on October 5, is holding talks this week with all the remaining parties that made it into the National Assembly.

On Wednesday, GERBfailed to reach agreement on forming a coalition with right-wing entity the Reformist Bloc, deemed its most natural ally, but it registered a breakthrough with nationalist coalition the Patriotic Front on the following day.

Bulgaria without Censorship, a coalition led by ex-journalist Nikolay Barekov's party of the same name, ranked sixth in the early elections. It has recently portrayed itself as a centrist political entity, but has frequently changed its ideology.

The party's leadership announced in a media statement Thursday it was ready to renounce "many" of its demands for the sake of stability in Bulgaria and vowed to refrain from attempts at isolating other parties in Parliament.

Nikolay Barekov, leader of the political formation, decided earlier this week to retain his seat in the European Parliament.

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The Evil Within - Censorship Comparison - Eurogamer
The Evil Within - Censorship Comparison - Eurogamer Did you know that the Japanese version of the Evil Within, which, over there, goes by the infinitely cooler name Psycho Break, has DLC...

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#Gamergate - Big Media, Media Tips, #39;Rape #39; Censorship
Hopefully nobody will get spammed with invites this time. Ranting about various related subjects for a bit, then open to questions and abuse.

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Unnecessary Censorship - Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos Part 1 (Censored Parody)
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#Microstopped: Terrifying Internet Censorship
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TIME History movies This Disney Censorship Story Is Udderly Ridiculous Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse, circa 1935 General Photographic Agency / Getty Images The studio was founded on Oct. 16, 1923

When the Disney Brothers Studio got its start on this day, Oct. 16, in 1923, Walt Disney couldnt have predicted that his animation studio would become the entertainment powerhouse that its been for nearly a century.

He also probably failed to predict that, within a decade, hed get hit with what must be one of the sillier censorship cases in history.

Heres how TIME described what happened in February of 1931:

Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America last week announced that, because of complaints of many censor boards, the famed udder of the cow in the Mickey Mouse cartoons was now banned. Cows in Mickey Mouse or other cartoon pictures in the future will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan organ whose antics of late have shocked some and convulsed other of Mickey Mouses patrons. In a recent picture the udder, besides flying violently to left and right or stretching far out behind when the cow was in motion, heaved with its panting when the cow stood still; it also stretched, when seized, in an exaggerated way.

Thats right: Clarabelle Cows udders were deemed inappropriate for tender American audiences, who one must presume did not know where milk comes from. Clarabelle was also censored at one point, in Ohio, after she was seen reading a racy book.

But, it turns out, Clarabelle wasnt the only one of Disneys creations to get adjusted by decency boards during the studios first decade. Canada banned another cartoon because of the way a fish got too close to a mermaids thigh, and German censors objected to a cartoon in which Mickey and friends were approached by cats wearing German military garb, which was seen as offensive to Germans. (Its unclear from TIMEs coverage whether the German censors objected to being compared to undignified felines or to anti-Mickey predators.)

It was probably not because of her udders, but Clarabelle has largely faded away from the list of popular Disney characters, which means thatto paraphrase another cartoon icon, Bart Simpsonmost of the studios movies these days do not, in fact, have a cow, man.

Read TIMEs 1937 cover story about Walt Disney here, in the archives: Mouse & Man

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CHICO, Calif. A networking device that helps users bypass Internet censorship smashed its fundraising Kickstarter goal after bringing in over $550,000 in 3 days.

August Germar launched the Kickstarter campaign on Oct. 12 and the project raised $350,000 within 24 hours. Germar said on the Kickstarter page that he and several IT friends created the device in 2010 after seeing Internet censorship in schools and Arab Spring protesters being cut off from Twitter.

The Anonabox provides anonymous Internet access and encryption and helps bypass censorship in areas where Internet access is limited. It is an open source, embedded, networking device designed specifically to run Tor, which provides online privacy, according to the Kickstarter page. The Anonabox is ultimately intended for users where the Tors anti-censorship and privacy properties can help protect activists and journalists.

In places where the government or private entities may try to control or limit access to the Internet, the Tor network allows access to the full, uncensored Internet, and also access to some parts of the web that are hidden even in uncensored places, like .onion domains, the page says.

Germar and his friends created four versions of the Anonabox over a four-year period and the latest model has a 64 megabyte memory and a 580mhz central processing unit. The fundraiser page says the Anonabox is reliable and hides the users location, as well as all the other personal data that leaks through ordinary Internet use. The Anonabox can be used with a regular motem and router and due to its small size is easily portable.

Anonabox is not the first product to attempt to integrate Tor directly into a router, but Germar argues it will offer the best balance between affordability, easy setup, size and security, according to Wired.

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Censorship of YA/Children #39;s Literature | #TRR
Discussion involving censorship of books and The Recruit by Robert Muchamore. Buy the book here: http://www.bestlittlebookshop.com/book/the-recruit/978034088...

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