Pro-independence riots have broken out in New Caledonia

As a colony the island is a retreat for French citizens
But with 'decolonization' only native Kanak people could vote, barring those arriving from France

Now Paris is empowering French residents to vote after only 10 years

The French Government is using it's army to quash indigenous locals who are rising up against the colonisers.

Authorities also decided to ban video app #TikTok, which the government during a bout of riots on France's mainland last summer said helped rioters organise and amplified the chaos, attracting troublemakers to the streets.

#France #Colonialism #Politics #NewCaledonia #Censorship #Oceana #Uprising

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Originally posted by the Voice of America.
Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America,
a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in
the public domain.

YouTube agrees to remove videos of banned Hong Kong protest song

by VOA News

YouTube says it will block access in Hong Kong to videos of
performances of a banned protest song.

Hong Kong's Court of Appeal ruled last week that "Glory to Hong Kong,"
which emerged as an anthem for protesters during the massive
anti-government protests in 2019, is illegal to sing or play in the
city. The ruling said the song's composer intended for the song to be
used as a "weapon."

There was no immediate comment from the government in Hong Kong.

The ban covers anyone who either broadcasts or distributes the song
with the intention of promoting Hong Kong's independence or
misrepresents it as the city's official anthem. Hong Kong is a
semi-autonomous city.

YouTube said in a statement Wednesday that it will block access in the
Chinese city to 32 videos of the song, which the court deemed was
"prohibited content."

"We are disappointed by the Court's decision but are complying with its
removal order," the online video sharing service said. The company said
it shared concerns with human rights organizations about the chilling
effect the ban would have on free speech online, and that it is
considering options to file an appeal.

A search for the 32 videos in Hong Kong resulted in a message saying
they were "not available on this country domain due to a court order."

The song has mistakenly been played at sporting events as the official
anthem of Hong Kong. The city does not have its own anthem, instead
using mainland China's official anthem "March of the Volunteers."

The appeal court's ruling overturned a previous decision issued last
year by the High Court, which cited free speech concerns. The
government went to court last year to have the song banned after Google
and other internet service providers refused to remove it from their
search results.

YouTube and Google are owned by California-based Alphabet.

The ban is the latest action taken by the government to silence
dissenting voices since Beijing passed a sweeping security law for Hong
Kong in 2020 in response to the protests. The law punishes anyone
believed to be carrying out terrorism, separatism, subversion of state
power or collusion with foreign forces.

Since the law took effect, hundreds of pro-democracy advocates have
been arrested, tried and jailed, and the city's once-vibrant civil
society has been stifled.

George Chen, the co-chair of digital practice at the Washington-based
business and policy consultancy Asia Group, said the ban could hurt
Hong Kong's reputation as a global financial hub if officials pressure
online platforms on a daily basis to remove content, as it could raise
questions about its willingness to allow the free flow of information.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press,
Reuters, Agence France-Presse.

The Voice of America provides news and information in more than 40
languages to an estimated weekly audience of over 326 million people.
Stories with the VOA News byline are the work of multiple VOA
journalists and may contain information from wire service reports.

#hong-kong #hongkong #china #youtube #censorship #google #alphabet #anthem #hong-kong-anthem #anthem-of-hong-kong #香港 #中国

What I don't understand about the #TikTok problem is what makes TikTok worse than #Instagram, #Facebook, #Google or #Twitter?

Either you ban algorithmic timelines or you ban government spying. But if you only ban TikTok, the #propaganda will still reach us via the other networks ...

TikTok ban in the United States: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/explaining-why-officials-want-to-ban-tiktok-in-the-united-states/article_2f1c3092-0baa-11ef-8c02-df0aeedefee3.html

#news #censorship #politics #China #USA #algorithm #software #socialNetwork #internet #problem #law #surveillance #economy

It is always a bad sign when a #democracy bans the #press...

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68961753.amp

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) urged the Israeli government to reconsider its decision, saying the shut down of #AlJazeera in the country should be "a cause for concern for all supporters of a free press".

#censorship #war #gaza #problem #journalism #freedom #politics #military #humanrights #security #news

Campaign in #France to silence, intimidate voices critical of #Israel must be stopped

Geneva - The escalating campaign in France of gagging, repressing, and intimidating pro-Palestinian voices and those critical of Israel entails a flagrant violation of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to peaceful assembly.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has monitored the intensification, over the past few days, of official and institutional repression against university students in France who are peacefully protesting against Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. The French government has used various forms of intimidation to silence activists speaking out against the genocide, including the targeting of pro-Palestine political figures.

#HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #Gaza #Censorship #Europe #EuroMed

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/6298

#Iran #Palestine #UnitedStates #Europe #censorship

https://twitter.com/CPGBML/status/1785051294882824216

https://www.bitchute.com/video/xBv5K4S4CyON/

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and they hate us

Everything You Need to #Know about the #Government’s #Mass #Censorship Campaign. #MikeBenz

https://www.bitchute.com/video/2b0XZHiFbr1l/

#climateviewer #jimlee

Election #Rigging, #Digital #MKUltra & #Censorship: The #Ministry #of #Truth. ClimateViewer 4-28-2024

#GregAbbott #TX #SelectiveFreeSpeech #Censorship

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support

Media Lens

Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture’. For around three euros, visitors can view an exotic range of devices used to impale, immolate, strangle and dismember human beings in the name of God.

It’s tempting to reassure ourselves that these are relics of a far-distant past, horrors that could never happen now.

(Text continues underneath the illustration.)

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But did the Dark Ages ever really end? Noam Chomsky commented:

‘Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support. For a good reason – they don’t have wealth, they don’t have power. So they don’t have rights. It’s the way the world works – your rights correspond to your power and your wealth.’

It is indeed the way the world works. It is also the way the medieval world worked. (...)

Complete article

Tags: #news #propaganda #censorship #corporate_media #gaza #israel #iran #palestine #palestinians #russia #ukraine #news #media #news_media #journalism #journalist

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

However that may be, it is always disastrous when governments set to work to uphold opinions for their utility rather than for their truth. As soon as this is done it becomes necessary to have a censorship to suppress adverse arguments, and it is thought wise to discourage thinking among the young for fear of encouraging “dangerous thoughts.” When such mal-practices are employed against religion as they are in Soviet Russia, the theologians can see that they are bad, but they are still bad when employed in defence of what the theologians think good. Freedom of thought and the habit of giving weight to evidence are matters of far greater moral import than the belief in this or that theological dogma. On all these grounds it cannot be maintained that theological beliefs should be upheld for their usefulness without regard to their truth.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Is There a God?” (1952)

#quote #quotes #quotation #censorship #truth #utility #ideology
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/68853/

“Without #censorship, Hitler never would have achieved his terrible power, nor would he be able to hold it.”

“A #censor tells the #newspapers what to publish, so that in this ignorance the citizen will support the #government in #power."

September 30, 1938 | The Daily Times

Tor 0.4.8.11 is released.

It's in Tor Browser 13.0.14.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.8.11/ChangeLog

Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
  This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting
  also that directory authority running this version will now automatically
  reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.

  o Minor feature (authority):
    - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.

  o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
    - New IP address and keys.

  o Minor feature (directory authority):
    - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
      the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
      combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
      include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
      versions of Tor).

  o Minor features (fallbackdir):
    - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.

  o Minor features (geoip data):
    - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
      retrieved on 2024/04/10.

  o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
    - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
      directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix
      on 0.2.0.3-alpha.

Tor Browser 13.0.14

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13014/

#tor #tor-browser #privacy #surveillance #censorship #tor-project

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https://twitter.com/SocialistMMA/status/1779576656203547110

#culture #art #documenta #censorship #germany

"In its almost 70-year history, documenta has developed into the world's most important exhibition of modern art. Every five years, it creates a space for artistic perspectives on the central issues of the global world. This was and is only possible thanks to the complete refusal of politics to exert any influence on artistic issues and the strict preservation of artistic freedom. This finds its limits in the law, which is bindingly established by the courts, not in parliamentary resolutions, not in the opinions of politicians, not in reasons of state and also - as is now planned for documenta - in enforced voluntary commitments by curators and artists. This petition demands that artistic freedom, as enshrined in Article 5 of the German Basic Law, continues to be preserved and is not restricted by political or other external influences, which is why we at the #standwithdocumenta initiative are doing everything we can to support you in protecting this important platform for modern art and preserving its independence. Please sign this petition now!"

#standwithdocumenta

We at #standwithdocumenta are happy about any support! Sign the petition to save artistic freedom on our website https://standwithdocumenta.com//.

Almost all #Instagram and #Twitter/x accounts I was following for updates about Israel have disappeared z same with all their data.

It was funny to read Biden's information about "we destroyed all drones and missiles" while videos of Iranian ICBMs easily penetrating Iron Dome and hitting their targets.

The damages to Israeli main military airbases in Negev is so significant that the base has been closed and no fighter jets have lifted from the airbase since this morning.

#Iran #Israel #IronDome #iranStrikesBack #Censorship #Propaganda #GenocideJoe #Politics

Scottish HATE CRIME Special from Comedy Unleashed

#humour #comedy #censorship

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=eF-YDUa13VA

The First Amendment's Terms of Service - Glenn Loury

#politics #freedom #censorship

https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-first-amendments-terms-of-service

mike benz. #censorship is the enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njqHomvdZoY

#Ukraine Considers Banning #Telegram if App is Confirmed as “Threat to National Security”

The Ukrainian parliament has been studying a bill since last week that threatens to shut Telegram down. 

The measure, which has proven very unpopular but has garnered the support of deputies from four political groups in the Rada – 72% of Ukrainians use Telegram as their main source of information, a study found last year.

Ukrainian citizens can currently consult Telegram without limits, as opposed to surfing the internet or following news outlets regulated by Kiev’s media law. 

PS. #France has quietly pushed blocking of telegram channels, the same in #Sweden and #Germany. But the app itself is still not banned here.

#Democracy #Censorship #Politics #Europe