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Turks have taken to the streets in protest against their Islamist Prime Minister. An Australian who joined them in Istanbul last weekend, <b>Erinch Sahan</b>, explains why he did so -- and why you won't hear about in the Turkish media.

Tear gas v Twitter: a Turkish protester tells his story

Jun 07, 2013

Some photographs from warzones have been censored from a NSW-government funded festival, a move which has prompted some photographers to withdraw from the event. <em>Crikey</em> intern Shaun Ewart reports.

Censored: when photographs are just too Vivid for Sydney

May 27, 2013

There has been a dust-up in the past few months about an attempt by the Department of Immigration to force media organisations to give bureaucrats the right to edit their reports in return for access to detention centres.

MEAA responds to Immigration’s detention centre blackout

Jan 09, 2012

Censorship is an almost all pervading thing; anything even slightly critical is blue-pencilled out of existence. But it's what's not there that's most important, writes <b>Michael Field</b>.

Fiji censorship like dark matter: impossible to see, but still there

Jul 13, 2010

Fiji has <a href="http://kauri.aut.ac.nz:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/3028">announced</a> an even further tightening of its strict media censorship, to lessen foreign ownership and positively depict Bainimarama's regime. Is this an attempt to better control the Rupert Murdoch owned <em>Fiji Times</em>?

Stop press! Fiji’s censorship goes bananas

May 04, 2010

Stephen Conroy slams Google for its hypocritical stance on the government's proposed internet filter. But the Minister has a little China problem of his own.

Conroy fighting internet battle on wrong front

Apr 15, 2010

Significant regional elections are coming up in Italy, yet thanks to PM Silvio Berlusconi's control over Italian TV -- and the expectation that results won't be kind to Berlusconi -- they will hardly rate a mention.

What elections? Berlusconi silences the Italian media

Mar 25, 2010

After learning that the state broadcaster was to show a program focused on corruption cases against him, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi went on a tirade against the country's broadcasting regulator.

Berlusconi busted trying to censor the press

Mar 18, 2010

Chinese censors pull the plug on Avatar

Jan 27, 2010

Bizarre new laws have came into effect in South Australia pertaining to the manner in which R-rated films are displayed and promoted. But films with more provocative covers (but milder ratings) are allowed to be displayed as normal.

New South Australian DVD laws are a pain in the Rs

Luke Buckmaster

Jan 25, 2010

The underlying Australian internet censorship process is unworkable, and always will be. Opponents of the filter are busy proving it, with complaints about iTunes selling MA15+ films without requiring age verification.

ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering

Sep 14, 2009

When it comes to subverting government internet censorship, few are more experienced than China's Falun Gong. So when Iranians started using the net to organise protests, the Falun Gong thought they'd lend a hand...

How the Falun Gong powered Iran’s protests

Sep 04, 2009

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