censorship

Chinese protestors angry with endless COVID restrictions have been flipping videos filmed on their phones and adding filters to avoid the government's online censors.

China has been accused of censoring maskless fans at the World Cup on state TV to maintain the illusion that the country's strict zero-COVID rules aren't dissimilar from the outside world.

Memphis International Airport has issued an apology after abruptly removing and then reinstating photographer Tommy Kha’s self-portrait as an Elvis tribute artist.

India is in the midst of what is being described as a "devastating" wave of Covid-19 cases across the country which caused a large influx of social media posts critical of the government's response. Hundreds of posts were ordered to be removed by India's government, which are now blocked in the country.

Editor’s note: Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim (@yunghi) sent me the following thoughts after the publication of my article about the ethics of showing protestors’ faces.

Instagram landed in hot water yesterday after some users discovered they were being blocked from posting anything with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. In a statement on Twitter, the photo sharing site blamed its anti-spam system.

Stock photo giant Shutterstock has found itself in some ethical hot water. In a recording obtained by the media, an executive is heard dismissing employees' concerns about the censorship of search results in China, telling them that they are free "to pursue other opportunities" if they're unhappy with the company's decision.

Iranian music streaming website Melovaz is under fire today after it was discovered that, in accordance with the country's strict censorship policies, the site is forced to Photoshop out women out of album cover art. The policy means that women are being scrubbed—often very poorly—out of their own cover art, resulting in some very strange, almost comical album covers.

One of the most famous Chinese photojournalists has gone missing in China, and there are reports that he was arrested by government security officers.

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert is being accused of a very rudimentary style of censorship by photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo. According to Lo Scalzo, Gohmert got up and physically blocked his view so that he couldn't photograph protesters during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings earlier this week.

Facebook's rigid content restrictions and community standards are softening a bit today, and it's all because of Nick Ut and his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Terror of War, known by many as "Napalm Girl."

It seems like everybody has chimed in about the Facebook censorship controversy surrounding Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut's photo "Terror of War" ... except the photographer himself. Until now.