censorship
Weeks after it was published in its entirety in the US, Australian actress Rebel Wilson’s memoir “Rebel Rising” has hit bookshelves today in the UK - with redacted passages about her experience working with Sacha Baron Cohen. “We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the U.K. edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note,” publisher HarperCollins told The Guardian in a statement. “Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story.” The explanatory note says the redaction has been made "due to the peculiarities of th...
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"Were you rushing? Or were you dragging?" It really matters. The Russian republic of Chechnya is said to have ruled that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM)" - meaning a lot of modern western music would be banned from being played publicly in the conservative Islamic society. The new standard of music is relatively slow compared to a lot of modern-day pop music, as well as electro, rave, dubstep and techno music – which tends to be of a higher BPM. Most pop songs range from 100 to 130 BPM, a tempo commonly used to create catchy and danceable rhythm. For...
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If you’ve been to Florence, there’s a good chance you’ve wandered the hallowed halls of the Accademia Gallery in search of the city’s most famous inhabitant: Michelangelo’s David. Along with thousands of other visitors, you may have picked up a magnet to commemorate the encounter with this nude sculptural icon, completed in 1504. But this time-honoured, cheeky souvenir may be at risk of disappearing – curators are taking aim at the less-than-reverent magnets and souvenirs sold around Florence focusing on David’s genitalia, raising questions about freedom of expression. This is not the first ti...
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When you think of 74-year-old British gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, who helms the wholesome ITV gardening show Love Your Garden, censorship is probably not the first word that springs to mind. Still, that hasn’t deterred North Korea’s state television Central TV, which has censored a 2010 episode of the BBC gardening programme Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets (which does sound a bit filthy, come to think of it). The reason? His jeans. They blurred out presenter Titchmarsh's trousers, as jeans are seen as a symbol of western imperialism in the secretive state - and are therefore ban...
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“No sex please, we’re British.” A phrase that should be familiar to anyone who has seen the London West End show or the 1973 British comedy of the same name starring Ronnie Corbett. And if you’re not acquainted with this outdated farce, you may be au fait with the reputation the UK has for being a traditionally chaste nation compared to its less pearl-clutchy European neighbours. While somewhat outworn, the UK is living up to its reputation, which is coming back in full force via the BBFC (the British Board of Film Classification). You see, the BBFC – which is responsible for the national clas...
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