China has banned 120 singalong songs that are deemed immoral, to mixed responses from the public.
The mainland’s control of bookshops and media outlets has led to soft censorship and restrictions on what people can read in Hong Kong.
User-generated content can be both a media boon and a minefield, with hoaxes and propaganda competing with bona fide eyewitness accounts.
The African Creative Economy Conference that takes place in Morocco this week will shine a spotlight on the role of artists as agents of change.
Following its refusal to print Dean Hutton’s “full frontal nudes”, Remata has denied the genderqueer artist’s “censorship” accusations.
Sources from the SABC say they were instructed to cut away during a live broadcast, when Jacob Zuma was being booed during Nelson Mandela’s memorial.
The Right2Know Campaign will organise a protest at the SABC’s Johannesburg offices over the cancelling of current affairs talk show "The Big Debate".
Media organisations will not publish anything from Tanzania’s information department in protest of three local newspapers being banned.
The SABC censored Workers and Socialist Party spokesperson Liv Shange because she is anti-ANC, alleges the party.
The redeeming factor of the Jo’burg Art Fair was seeing one artist stand up for another, writes Percy Zvomuya.
The ‘patriotic’ culture war being waged by the government may force the closure of one of Hungary’s leading arts academies
Zambia’s police have charged a journalist with having porn on his computer in an apparent crackdown on media critical of the state, says his lawyer.
The outcry over the banning of the film "Of Good Report" has left the Film and Publication Board fighting to defend its decision.
The opening film of the Durban International Film Festival, "Of Good Report", has been effectively banned by the Film and Publication Board.
Jia Zhangke challenges his compatriots’ deeply ingrained reluctance to speak about injustice and uses his films to feature them.
Instead of banning the diary from schools, as Gail Horalek would like, we should teach girls not to be ashamed of their bodies.
Burma’s first sex education magazine has got the usually demure nation hot under the collar as it explores new-found cultural freedom.
A Chinese newspaper at the centre of public protests about government censorship will publish as usual following reports of a deal to end the row.
Hundreds of people have demonstrated in support of media freedom in China outside the offices of a newspaper at the centre of a censorship row.
The South African National Editors’ Forum has criticised the ban on media photography at the Lady Gaga concerts, saying it’s a form of censorship.
The number of countries filtering online content has increased. Pornography and security are reasons given to block politically sensitive information.
A fresh version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas has sparked a censorship row.
A badly drafted law easily allows anyone to censor the content of websites hosted in South Africa, writes Leon de Kock
Film and Publications Board has classified "The Spear" on the grounds that it contains nudity. But what other famous artworks have they missed?
Whether it be child pornography or a politically sensitive painting, banning content widely distributed online is often pure symbolic futility.
In 2010 Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were sentenced to six years in prison for alleged crimes against national security.
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The Oscar-nominated thriller was withdrawn from release in India after director David Fincher refused to cut ‘unsuitable’ sex scenes.
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Horror film <i>Ghost</i>, which shows an evil spirit in female form being crucified, has been toned down to avoid offending country’s Christians.
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The City of Durban has censored a satirical poster by <em>Amandla!</em> that suggests President Jacob Zuma will create a million climate change jobs.
A world without hits by Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys and Britney? Welcome to China.
Zimbabwe police have arrested two members of a homosexual rights organisation following a raid on their office on Friday.
Even the SABC’s announcement about why they had ditched the doctored version of the show at the last minute was so clunky.