New Delhi, April 30 (ANI): The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the validity of Information Technology Rules making it mandatory for a website owner to screen content and exercise online censorship of contents posted on the portal.

Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): Open, democratic governments including the United Stated, have sought laws and new forms of surveillance, which according to many is a new wave of censorship, a report has said.

London, Jan. 30 (ANI): The British broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been accused of an 'extraordinary' act of censorship for ordering a playwright to edit certain lines from a Radio 4 drama about honour killings.

Washington, Jan 12 (ANI): Journalists from the Chinese newspaper, which recently launched a rare protest against censorship rules, has said that the government's rules and regulations imposed on the media leaves them 'dancing in handcuffs,' according to a report.

Sydney, Jan. 11 (ANI): Burma's first sex education magazine, Hyno, has sparked debate since hitting bookstores in November, just a few months after the end of censorship in the former junta-ruled nation.

London, Jan 11 (ANI): A Chinese newspaper, which recently launched a rare protest against the government's censorship rules, has published a new issue.

Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): A Chinese weekly newspaper that staged a rare protest against government censorship will publish as usual following reports of a deal to end the row.

London, Jan 8 (ANI): Journalists at a major Chinese media firm have staged a rare protest against censorship rules in the country.

London, Jan. 6 (ANI): Google has reluctantly conceded defeat in its latest effort to combat online censorship in China.

London, Jan 5 (ANI): In a rare protest against censorship, journalists at a leading Chinese newspaper have called for a propaganda chief to resign, accusing him of being 'dictatorial' in an era of 'growing openness'.

London, Dec 19 (ANI): Award-winning Chinese director Xie Fei has accused his country's censorship rules of 'killing artistic exploration'.

London, Dec. 14 (ANI): The British and American Governments have refused to sign a new UN telecoms treaty, over concerns that the clauses supported by China could lead to greater online censorship.

London, Dec 13 (ANI): Internet users in the US have expressed their anger over Google's decision to make it harder to find porn on the web.

Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): The deep divisions over treatment of the web have emerged after a group of Arab states put forward a plan that would require countries around the world to explicitly regulate Internet companies.

London, Dec 7 (ANI): This year's winner of Nobel Prize in literature Mo Yan has defended censorship as something as necessary as airport security checks, a report has said.

Panaji, Nov. 20 (ANI): Renowned Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi has described censorship as a world problem and called for reasonable ways to handle it.

Tokyo, Nov 6 (ANI): China's use of 'secrecy, censorship and bullying' to silence dissents in the country must come to an end under the rule of the new leader, spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said.

Karachi, Nov. 3 (ANI): As part of a review of Pakistan's human rights standing, the Netherlands has recommended that the country removes restrictions on Internet access.

London, Nov 1 (ANI): A new law in Russia that aims to protect children from harmful internet content by allowing the government to remove such websites has finally taken effect in the country.

London, Oct 27 (ANI): The explosive New York Times report on the massive wealth accumulated by the family of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is still likely to reach tens of millions of people in the country, despite the government's decision to block the websites of the American media firm.

Washington, Oct. 19 (ANI): Micro-blogging platform Twitter has blocked a neo-Nazi group's account at the request

London, Oct 12 (ANI): Saudi Arabian authorities have called for the formation of a new international body to censor offensive content on the internet, in the wake of the outrage across the Middle East over the anti-Islam movie posted on YouTube.

New York, Sept 12 (ANI): Facebook has apologized for temporarily shutting down The New Yorker Cartoons page over one particular cartoon of Adam and Eve that shows the pair totally nude.

Rangoon, Aug. 20 (ANI): Burma has announced an end to censorship of its media.

Washington, Aug 15 (ANI): The economic sanctions imposed by US President Barack Obama's administration have unintentionally undermined the opposition movements they were intended to help in Syria and Iran, and have made it more difficult for the rebels to access technologies that can evade electronic surveillance and censorship, according to activists.