Tag: censorship
Censorship over Gaza is a crucial complement of genocide
ANALYSIS: By Somdeep Sen
Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had...
ABC staff ‘have lost confidence’ in boss in defending public trust in Israel row
Pacific Media Watch
Union members at the Australian public broadcaster ABC have today passed a vote of no confidence in managing director David Anderson for...
Human rights arguments have lost credibility over West’s double standards
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...
Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part two)
This is part of a keynote address by Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP)...
Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence
COMMENT: By David Robie
The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.
At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
Melanesia: Facebook algorithms censor article about press freedom in West Papua
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Facebook to restore an article that was censored for violating its rules on nudity and urges...