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The Ohio House has passed House Bill 249, advancing legislation that would restrict drag and gender-related performances.

In what is becoming an annual event, a spate of bans on the eve of March 8 International Women’s Day has struck numerous WeChat public accounts focused on feminism, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, combatting human trafficking, and promoting mental health, a sign of the continuing stigmatization and silencing of debate about these issues. Many bloggers and commentators have criticized the bans, which formed a glaring contrast to official- and state-media coverage of March 8 International Women’s Day, whose theme this year is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.” Some noted that amid the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) ongoing campaign to “clean up” content purportedly “promoting extreme feminism and inciting gender antagonism,” the red lines seem to be shifting, with even the most cautious and moderate voices now in the firing line.

Barred from publishing details of Iranian missile impacts or interceptions, local and international journalists are struggling to tell the full story.

The Trump administration likes to promote its immigration enforcement agenda through numbers, with ambitious goals to deport 1 million people, report zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border and arrest thousands of alleged gang members.

In the run-up to March 8 International Women’s Day, a comedian known as Xiao Pa (full name Paziliyaer Paerhati [sic]) had her Weibo account suspended for posting this joke: “I’ve been bedridden for two days with a high fever. Suddenly it hit me that if I had a husband and kids, I’d be clinging to the wall, dragging myself out of bed just to cook for them.”

Indonesia is the latest country to block social media, saying the apps pose “increasingly real threats” to young people.

Chris Hedges: Attacks Increase on #FrancescaAlbaneseFebruary 18, 2026

The author Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlinale after the film festival’s chief jurist said film-makers must stay out of politics.

Censoring Anti-Zionist Jewish voices.

“to do nothing is to support the building of a world where atrocities, such as those we are seeing in #Palestine , are acceptable.

We’re proud anti-Zionists at JVP. But what is Zionism and why are we opposed to it? 🧵

🚨 The Snowflake network is currently overloaded and we need more Snowflake proxies.

Tor Snowflake stats (2026-02-02) 📊

The COVID pandemic is ongoing and fuck ICE. If you can’t handle me saying any of that, this post isn’t for you. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered. COVID seems less lethal now, but it still appears to be spreading and causing serious long-term damage to many people.

This is a frontend for the asknostr hashtag on nostr, a more decentralized but currently ghost-town-populated fediverse alternative.

On September 20, influencer Hu Chenfeng was banned on several platforms within the Great Firewall. In the space of a few days, his accounts on Weibo, Bilibili, Douyin (TikTok’s counterpart in the Chinese market), and other platforms were wiped out, and for some time even fan-edited clips and reaction videos were hard to find.

Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled and Louise Adler, who on Tuesday morning resigned as director, has described its collapse as a landmark moment and taken aim at those who engage in acts of censorship.

After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

Nearly a dozen former leaders of the Adelaide Festival are calling for Randa Abdel-Fattah to be reinvited to Writers’ Week, adding to a mounting crisis over the Palestinian-Australian author’s exclusion from the literary festival.

A UN Human Rights Office has found Israel is ‘asphyxiating’ Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem via its policies, practices and laws

The royal commission is a win for the ruling class, which has mounted a weeks-long offensive to use the Bondi massacre to attack the Albanese government, the Palestine movement and civil rights more generally.

As public concerns over the AUKUS alliance rise – with expanding US bases in Australia and Donald Trump’s belligerent conduct, FOI documents reveal the Government is secretly expanding its ‘US Department of War Protest’ Force.

Anthony Albanese has announced the government “adopts and fully supports the plan to combat antisemitism,” bowing to media pressure.

Netanyahu has used the Bondi murders to weaponise antisemitism — pressuring Australia to silence Palestine and deflect scrutiny of Israel’s war.

Premier Chris Minns said among the reforms to be discussed were proposed limits on the number of firearms a licensed shooter could own.

774 Drive has been told some social media apps, including Instagram and Snapchat, have already begun kicking under-16s off their platforms, hours before the social media ban officially starts.

❝ Several German correspondents have described "an atmosphere of intimidation" over their reporting on Israel & Palestine, as a campaign led by the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and its allies in Germany peaked over the past two weeks against Sophie von der Tann ❞

Tasnim reports that X/Twitter has suspended an account linked to a group claiming to leak data on Israeli security officers.

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The popular American children's content creator, Ms Rachel, has said that since being shortlisted by a pro-Israel group for "Antisemite of the Year", there has been a spike in threats towards her and her family.

The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday urged foreign media outlets to refrain from concocting or spreading false information in their reporting of Hong Kong matters.

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The sudden cancellation of Japanese events in Shanghai have sparked criticism and fanned nationalist sentiment.

The Age, SMH and Crikey are behind paywalls. The Walkley's account of the speech is here:walkleys.com/dont-kid-yourself@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

Israel's parliament on Monday passed the first reading of a bill allowing authorities to shut down foreign media deemed "harmful" to national security without a court order.

The news that two more Japanese scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences has been met with considerable consternation on the Chinese internet.

Three and a half years into its all-out war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging a parallel battle at home — this time against Internet freedom.

From !news@lemmy.world

#Censorship campaigns often backfire. Just ask Anthony Comstock, whose crusades against “immorality” made the very things he banned more popular.

It seems that the Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been taking lessons from Donald Trump on how to deal with the media. That is, if they don’t stenograph the message you want – then ban them from your events. Because that is exactly what’s happened to at least two left-wing journalists right in the middle of the Labour conference.

But people in China certainly seem to think this is an example of AI. China Digital Times reports that it wasn’t just the same-sex image that was altered, but the distributor did also cut out some straight sex scenes from the film… As one user implies, the AI is a more sophisticated and “terrifying” form of censorship because smart viewers have figured out ways to get around obvious censorship or can tell the difference, but that’s much harder with AI. Here’s a smattering of some of the comments, sarcasm implied on the last one:

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in new ways

Not only about the leaks to the AP, but also the Geedge leaks to the Globe & Mail.

A Brief History of Censorship (Since the Ancient World)

Amazing new level of censorship on TikTok.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

The Mary Wallopers were cut off at Victorious Festival for raising the Palestinian flag and saying "Free Palestine". Artists who show in solidarity with Palestinians trying to survive apartheid Israel's genocide are censored, while those who commit it are untouched. Disgusting.

French security forces have arrested freelance reporter Shahin Hazamy as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices.

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