Tunisia's court of cassation on Wednesday threw out a ruling banning pornographic websites, a judicial source and a press freedom watchdog said. “The court quashed the first instance and appeals ruling that ordered the censorship of pornographic websites,” the judicial source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The source added the case would go back to an appeals court.
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London, Feb 22 (ANI): The rules Facebook uses to decide whether to censor users' postings has been published for the first time which shows the social networking giant blocks mild nudity, but allows images of death and disfigurement. A former employee who used to filter out offensive content on Facebook has leaked the website's secret rulebook detailing its more liberal attitude to gore than to nudity
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A disgruntled agency worker has revealed Facebook's rules for blocking offensive content – and while 'crushed heads' are fine, female nipples aren't. Moroccan-born worker Amine Derkaoui was employed by oDesk to filter out offensive comment from Facebook, but released the policy to gossip site Gawker when he'd finally had enough of being paid $1 per hour.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments, a leading advocacy group said Tuesday. At least 46 journalists died around the world in 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists said, an increase from the estimate it released in December.
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Mexico: where journalists have protested against rising violence against reporters Copyright: Knight Foundation on Flickr. Some rights reserved The executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for a “global coalition” between media, governments, business sectors and “civil society organisations” against censorship. In the press freedom organisation's annual Attacks on the Press report, which documents the “media conditions” across more than 100 countries, Simon refers to ”the next information revolution”, where those keen to restrict the press have learnt “that maintaining a viable censorship regime is even more urgent in the information age.” He adds: “The reality is that there are few effective legal mechanisms to fight censorship on an international level.” In response he called for “the many constituencies that have a stake in ensuring the free flow of information” to work together to form a “global coalition against censorship”.
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