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Andrew Bushard submitted and paid for a billboard advertisement with Austin Today, Inc.'s "Daily Billboard" on an interstate outside of Austin, TX. +
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Anouar Rahmani's book was controversial because it included false 'god-like' figures, his own personal political opinions, theories about evolution and sexual innuendos. On February 28th, he wrote on his Facebook page about how he'd been summoned by the police to answer for the behavior of three fictional characters in his novel. During this interview with the police, he was notified that he would likely be sent before the courts on religious and moral offense charges. +
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Apple rejected the application as it was found to be “objectionable and crude” in the fall of 2012. The app was rejected multiple times; being deemed “not useful”, an issue with the Google corporate logo, and finally it was rejected for containing content that was “objectionable and crude”. Drone+ contains content and design similar to an interactive app available on the Guardian’s web site and iOS app, although the Guardian contains other types of content, while Drone+ solely is to notify users of U.S. drone strikes. +
Apple removed the app from its iOS App store in March 2013 citing that the app was ‘unsuitable for sale’ and ‘offensive’, and that Apple was uncomfortable selling a game designed around working in a sweatshop. Apple’s guidelines for app developers states, “We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, “I’ll know it when I see it”, and we think that you will also know it when you cross it.” Apple said it found particular offence to the ability of players to block fire escapes, increase working hours for labor, and use of child labor. The game’s creators have said ‘Sweatshop’ is supposed to be an educational work of fiction, created to expose the conditions of sweatshops, and the issue of viewing workers as units of labor, rather than as human beings. +
Apples Newsstand feature came out in 2010. This application allowed Apple users to download their favorite books and magazines in one place. With the origination of the Newsstand feature came a new set of guidelines. The guidelines were very general. In one section the company stated, “We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, ‘I’ll know it when I see it’. And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.” This established the company as an omnipotent power over what was allowed on the App Store and specifically caused fashion and art magazines to omit much of the content from the Apple versions of their publications. Because of this magazine companies nicknamed their iPad editions the “Iranian versions.” +
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As Adolf Hitler Campbell neared his third birthday, the Campbell family went to their local ShopRite to have a birthday cake made. When they requested his name, "Adolf Hitler", be written across the top, Shop-Rite personnel denied them service and refused to make the cake. They offered to leave room on the cake for the family to write the name themselves, but the Campbells refused and took their business to Wal-mart instead. ShopRite also denied service to Hitler's sister, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who has a birthday two months after him. +
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As Steve Forbes was introducing the band, SNL staff removed the American flags from the band's equipment. They then performed "Bulls on Parade," but after finishing their performance, the band was approached by SNL and NBC officials and told to leave the building. Bass player, Tim Commerford, responded by leaving the torn up remnants of one of the flags in Steve Forbes's dressing room. +
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As a result of the post, Carter was in a Comal County, Texas jail for five months, waiting for trial, as Texas courts believed this to be a terroristic threat. Carter’s father and attorneys are demanding that the comment is read in its proper context, as it was spurred by a gaming feud between Justin and another player of the online game “League of Legends.”
Although his statement is of the same jargon that gamers use, authorities still believed it was a terroristic threat, which the Texas Penal Code defines to be any threat of violence intended to cause fear, public or private disruptions, or impairment of emergency services or public resources. These cases most often are aimed at specific individuals, but the term encompasses bomb threats or threats of poisoning, sabotage, or intention to commit violence. In terroristic threat cases, Texas state courts have stated that the crime requires proof that the person making the threat intended to place a person or group of people in fear of imminent bodily injury.
In Carter's case, the only person meant to feel threatened by Carter’s statement would be whatever fellow gamer initiated the cycle of trash-talk. Carter meant to instill a “fear of losing” in someone, a competitive act that is obviously protected under the first amendment. There are checks in place to flag the kind of speech that would suggest an attack or an act of terrorism is imminent. But Justin Carter was in jail for nearly 5 months for online speech that was definitely insensitive and imprudent but was not a terroristic threat meriting a $500,000 bail. +
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At a meeting of the City Commission in October 2017, a group of protestors argued that the artwork is an expression of white supremacist hate and oppression, despite the claim of an anti-westward expansion message of Iannelli’s work. The historic expulsion of indigenous peoples from Kalamazoo incited objections to the work. On March 6, the Kalamazoo City Commission voted 5-1 to remove ''Fountain of the Pioneers''.
NCAC opposed the swiftness of Kalamazoo’s decision as well as their hasty response to emotional complaints. The organization asserted that such works of art should not be confused with those that were historically intended to send a clear racist message such as Confederate monuments. They advised the City Commission through a letter to carefully consider the factors involved in the creation, installation and retention of a piece of public art. +
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At an art show in the Mansfield Art Center selected a painting which had pornographic imagery incorporated into the artwork, but became concerned about proceeding with the show because, according to the museum's director Tracey Graziani, "this is pornography and there are laws about how to handle pornography and would we be liable if a child viewed it." +
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At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, SOMA West CBD invited local artists of the leather district to submit designs for the new Bigbelly trash cans that were being installed in the San Francisco area. Some designs that were submitted were not featured as planned. Although other queer-affirming and BDSM-affirmative images were featured, artists such as Justin Hall argued that his work was censored because of the hanky code. +
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At the behest of the British Council, the posters and banner were left out of the exhibition. "We asked Jeremy to reconsider the banner and poster … on the grounds that it could potentially be misconstrued in environments where the British army is currently deployed and perceived to be disrespectful of those who had lost their lives," said a British Council spokesman. +
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At the film's intended opening, the Durban international film festival, the festival audience was confronted with an on-screen statement "This film has been refused classification by the film and publications board, in terms of the Film and Publications Act of 1996. Unfortunately we may not legally screen the film Of Good Report as doing so would constitute a criminal offense." The film and publications board had refused to issue a rating for the film and had, instead, banned it as child pornography. +
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Audiences were extremely disturbed by this piece of performance art for a number of reasons. It's content was undeniably provocative, but reports that audience members who attended the performance were exposed to H.I.V. positive blood were extremely frightening to the public. +
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Author Andrew Bushard mailed in a check to purchase a [https://www.jonestown.org/ City of Jonestown] "Swift Fest" event sponsorship announcement for his book [http://www.freepressmedia.org/95ThesesAgainsttheSchoolSystem.html A Case for Homeschooling: 95 Theses Against the School System] +
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Author Andrew Bushard paid for ads for the book ''The Seduction of Anita Sarkeesian'' through online ad marketplace, [https://www.beaconadnetwork.com/ Beacon Ads]. Some webmasters approved and placed the ad on their websites, but other webmasters denied the ad and complained to Beacon Ads' webmaster. +
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BBC Radio was involved in a controversy surrounding their play of the Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen" released by Virgin Records to coincide with the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations. The lyrics were found to be heavily offensive. It was banned not only by the BBC but also by every independent radio station, making it the "most heavily censored record in British history."<p> +
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Badiucao's most recent exhibition in summer 2023 was targeted by the Chinese government from abroad despite the exhibit's location in Warsaw, Poland. When the exhibition was announced, staff from the Chinese Embassy visited the museum and demanded its cancellation. Officials from the Chinese Communist Party and their affiliates continually seek to censor Badiucao's artwork wherever and whenever he attempts to show it publicly. In 2018 an exhibition of Badiucao's work was cancelled in Hong Kong after threats made by the Chinese authorities. In 2022, Beijing tried unsuccessfully to cancel Badiucao’s exhibition at DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague. +
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Banned and blacklisted in China in 2011 +
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Banned in Boston and Chicago +