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Art Censorship in 2011: Nudity, Sexuality, Religion, Politics, and… Meat?!

By Megan Bellamy|2022-12-09T14:16:03-05:00February 6th, 2012|Blog|

2012 has already brought a few cases of censored art to our attention: Microsoft Skydrive froze UK blogger Michael Ohajuru's storage account because Modigliani’s painting “Reclining Nude” violated Microsoft's Code of Conduct which prohibits images that “depict nudity of any sort”; and ?zmir Metropolitan Municipality removed three photographs (below) from the exhibition “Aykiri” (Contrary) at the Izmir Art Center in Turkey as they reportedly [...]

Kudos to YouTube

By Svetlana Mintcheva|2020-01-03T13:38:45-05:00October 14th, 2010|Blog|

Earlier this year we reported on YouTube's removal and subsequent restoration of videos by dance-artist Amy Greenfield. At that point we voiced serious concerns about the lack of an appeals process for individuals who believe that their work has been unfairly removed from the site as well as the absence of "art" in the list of exceptions to the YouTube [...]

YouTube Creates Appeals Process & Includes Art Exception in Guidelines

By NCAC Staff|2020-01-03T13:38:42-05:00July 27th, 2010|Incidents|

After 37-year old video work from artist Susan Mogul was removed from YouTube, NCAC and the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined together in the following letter requesting once more that YouTube instate a viable appeals process and include an exception for nudity in art in its community guidelines.

YouTube restores Amy Greenfield’s videos

By NCAC Blog|2020-01-03T13:37:14-05:00February 26th, 2010|Blog|

Last week, NCAC and EFF protested YouTube's removal of work by acclaimed video-artist Amy Greenfield. NCAC applauds YouTube for so promptly responding to our letter and restoring Amy Greenfield's videos to its site (there are still some technical glitches but we are assured these will be taken care of soon). We are glad the company affirms that creativity and free [...]

YouTube Restores Amy Greenfield’s Videos

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YouTube Restores Amy Greenfield’s Videos

By NCAC Staff|2020-01-03T14:17:17-05:00February 22nd, 2010|Incidents|

NCAC and EFF sent a letter to YouTube protesting the removal of work by internationally recognized video artist Amy Greenfield. NCAC and EFF are urging the company to make sure YouTube’s community guidelines are applied judiciously.

Google Supports Free Speech in China … but not elsewhere

By Svetlana Mintcheva|2020-01-03T13:37:03-05:00February 3rd, 2010|Blog|

LIGHT OF THE BODY (segment) from Amy Greenfield on Vimeo. Google has taken a firm position on censorship in China, yet, ironically, Google willingly and actively censors. It censors so as to conform to local laws, but it also censors deliberately and voluntarily by restricting speech on, for instance, YouTube (fully owned by Google). A recent example of the breadth [...]

Champions of free speech?: the Case of Google in China

By Svetlana Mintcheva|2020-01-03T13:36:34-05:00January 21st, 2010|Blog|

When, a few years ago, Google agreed to China’s restrictions on the circulation of information and started google.cn, it claimed that “increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed [Google’s] discomfort in agreeing to censor some results.” Now, suddenly, Google is threatening to reverse its policy and close google.cn. This change of mind came [...]

School’s Punishment Runs Afoul of First Amendment Freedoms Online: J.C. v. Beverly Hills Unified School District

By Jennifer Liebman|2020-01-03T13:36:30-05:00January 8th, 2010|Blog|

Schools that dish out draconian punishments to students who are mean to each other online (aka cyberbullying) risk running afoul of the First Amendment. Beverly Vista School, a K-8 school in the Beverly Hills Unified School District, learned this lesson via a November 2009 court ruling, where the federal district court for the Central District of California found that administrators [...]

Website tracks online censorship reports

By Claire Karpen|2020-01-03T13:34:17-05:00August 6th, 2009|Blog|

Having trouble accessing a website? Suspect it might be more than just a faulty connection or technical malfunction? Visit Herdict.org, a website designed to track reports of censored web sites around the world. There, you can report anonymously that a site is inaccessible and see if other people are having the same problem. There is no way to determine whether [...]

Who’s censoring Facebook: The powers that be or the forces of the mob?

By Katie Fowley|2020-01-02T15:58:16-05:00January 6th, 2009|Blog|

Recently, there have been reports that content involving the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mysteriously disappearing from Facebook. The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) has complained that “many threads in various pro-Israel and pro-JIDF groups have mysteriously disappeared,” while others have complained that anti-Zionist content has disappeared, and one girl alleged that Facebook has prevented her from using hashtags such as [...]