Censorship Issues Society and Culture United Kingdom

• The Register - Amnesty takes a strike against web censorship - The worldwide movement of activists who campaign for internationally recognised human rights launched a campaign to challenge what it calls the increasing governmental censorship of the internet.
  
• Campaign Against Censorship - Successor to the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society, that was founded in 1968 to assist writers, artists, and others threatened by censorship, and to campaign for reform of censorship laws.
  
• Register - Crusading veggies steamroll university into web censorship - A provocative essay has been pulled from servers by Newcastle University authorities following complaints from vegetarians.
  
• The Observer - Today, our chance to fight a new hi-tech tyranny - Forty-five years ago an article in The Observer launched Amnesty International. Now, with the human rights organisation they highlight a new threat to freedom - internet censorship…
  
• The Register - Lords restrict terror website censorship plans - The House of Lords has restricted Government plans to allow the police to order the take down of suspected terrorism-related web content by requiring that the authorities obtain the permission of a judge first.
  
• The Observer - Amnesty: we must free the internet The Observer - Human rights group reunites with The Observer to end repression online.
  
• House of Commons - Media Standards - Transcript of debates about the Press Complaints Commission and tabloid journalism. Includes comments on the legal cases against Mahzer Mahmood and Neville Thurlbeck.
  
  

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