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North Korean man to be shot dead for ‘smuggling’ South Korean show ‘Squid Game’

Squid Games is a popular South Korean drama on Netflix which shows a dystopian world where cash-strapped contestants are pitted against each other in a children's game for huge cash prize. Losing players are sentenced to death in the show.

Twitter censors OpIndia cartoon: How big tech allows defamation of saffron, but goes red when it sees green

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, Twitter removed an editorial cartoon published by OpIndia on the recent Elle controversy. This is the cartoon that apparently violated Twitter policy.

Twitter suspends popular political satire handle for questioning Rana Ayyub: Here is the satirist’s statement on the issue

Popular Twitter account 'Princess Woke Liberal (@workingboxwali)' was censored and suspended by the micro-blogging site for questioning the promotion of Islamist Rana Ayyub on the Elle Magazine.

Facebook, Instagram ‘removes’ account of mother of slain US marine who slammed Joe Biden in wake of her son’s death

In her post Shana Chappell had expressed her belief that it was US President Joe Biden who was responsible for her son, Kareem Nikoui's death.

China to ban karaoke songs containing ‘illegal content’, to create a blacklist of songs that endanger national unity

China will create a blacklist of karaoke songs containing "illegal content", content providers asked to scrutinise songs for banned content

Twitter censors tweets that exposed liberal hypocrisy over Danish Siddiqui’s photograph, calls it ‘abuse’ and ‘harassment’

Twitter is finding new ways to censor political opinion it is not fond of. This time, it is related to a photograph of Danish Siddiqui.

A day after the death of photo-journalist Danish Siddiqui, strange behaviour is noticed on his Twitter account

On Friday, award-winning Reuters photo-journalist was murdered by the Taliban as he was covering the conflict in Afghanistan

Anonymous blogger ‘Program Think’, known for exposing the corruption of CCP members, goes missing in China: Here is what we know so far

As per Twitter account @GFWfrog, blogger 'Program-Think' was detained in May and undergoing 'brutal interrogation' in China

Dilip Kumar: From Censor Board under PM Nehru blocking the release of ‘Ganga Jamuna’ to him campaigning for Congress leaders

Despite being a great actor, dirctor and writer, Dilip Kumar had to face several hurdles in his creative pursuit under the Nehru government.

China’s WeChat deletes LGBT+ and other groups at most major universities overnight

Homosexuality is legal in China but was classified as a mental disorder until 2001. However, same sex marriage is not recognised.

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