Ayutha Ezhuthu – Debate On "Need Of Censorship On Social Media"(23/03/2015) Promo – Video


Ayutha Ezhuthu - Debate On "Need Of Censorship On Social Media"(23/03/2015) Promo
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Deepika Padukone, Aamir Khan & Karan Johar Attend Censorship Meeting With I&B Minister – FULL EVENT – Video


Deepika Padukone, Aamir Khan Karan Johar Attend Censorship Meeting With I B Minister - FULL EVENT
Deepika Padukone, Aamir Khan Karan Johar Attend Censorship Meeting With I B Minister - FULL EVENT Be the first one to catch all the news and exciting happenings in the world of Bollywood....

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Sudhir Mishra: Not worried about censorship; it is my country, will fight for what I want

New Delhi: As his upcoming film 'Aur Devdas' -- a hard-hitting political take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's romantic-tragedy -- gears up for its release

soon, director Sudhir Mishra says he is not bothered by the recent censorship issues.

The filmmaker, who earlier faced the heat of the censor board for his movies like "Dharavi" (1992) and "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi" (2005), said censorship is an old issue. "I am not worried about censorship, it is my country and I will fight for what I want. It is not as if censorship is beginning now, everybody is thinking it is happening now but we have problems all the time and you have a way of handling

it," Sudhir told PTI.

A file photo of Sudhir Mishra.

Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) locked horns with Bollywood over its recent decisions including removal of the word 'lesbian' from 'Dum Laga ke Haisha' followed by denying the primary clearance to Hollywood erotic romance

'Fifty Shades of Grey'.

The board also delayed the release of Anushka Sharma's "NH10" by objecting to certain scenes in it. The film industry has also been battling with the new

list of 28 banned cuss words issued by CBFC. Mishra along with other prominent Bollywood celebrities like Aamir Khan and Deepika Padukone met Minister of State for

I&B Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to raise their concerns over the censorship.

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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom – Video


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Jennie Plays Flower Part 4: Censorship Interview and Inspiration – Video


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Website Skirting Chinese Censorship Says It's Under Attack

A website that helps Chinese Internet users see censored pages says it is the target of a massive denial-of-service attack and is struggling to stay online.

GreatFire.org wrote in a post Thursday that the actions started Tuesday in the first such attack ever directed at the site. The site wrote that it didn't know who was launching the attacks but that they coincided with increased pressure from Chinese officials.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not answer phone calls Friday seeking comment.

GreatFire.org wrote that it was receiving 2.6 billion requests per hour, which are useless traffic designed to overwhelm the site. The organization said the attack was costing the site $30,000 per day to stay up.

The group doesn't reveal where it's based or who runs it.

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Anti-Censorship Service Greatfire Hit With DDoS Attack

Whoever is behind the attack is likely not a big fan of Greatfire's services, which are designed to help Web surfers in China evade the country's censorship policies.

The website greatfire.org appears to be under a massive distributed denial of service attackthe service's first, undoubtedly prompted by the mention of Greatfire in a recent Wall Street Journal article about online censorship in China.

Greatfire, for those unaware, allows uses to look up websites and keywords to see whether they're actively being blocked or otherwise censored by the Chinese governmentThe Great Firewall, as its commonly known. The website also maintains a number of mirrors of popular websites like Google, Boxun, and microblogging website Weibo, so users can access them sans restrictions.

Part of the site's success, as described in a 2014 Bloomberg article,, lies in the fact that Greatfire hosts its mirrors using Amazon's Web Services. Everything on Amazon Web Services is encrypted, so it's impossible to tell whether requests are for legitimate sites or sites that China's censors would otherwise target for content. So, to block Greatfire's service, China would have to block Amazon Web Services in general, which would undoubtedly hack off a number of businesses and other entities using Amazon's service for legitimate means.

According to Greatfire, the DDoS attack started on Tuesday, and it's hitting the site's mirrors with around 2.6 billion requests per hour (2500 times its normal traffic).

"While we have talked openly about our method of using collateral freedom to unblock websites and mobile apps that have been blocked by the Chinese authorities, the WSJ story clearly stated how the strategy works and how it is being used successfully to deliver uncensored content into China," reads a Greatfire blog post.

"We don't know who is behind this attack. However, the attack coincides with increased pressure on our organization over the last few months. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) publicly called us 'an anti-China website set up by an overseas anti-China organization'. We also know that CAC has put pressure on our IT partners to stop working with us. Recently, we noticed that somebody was trying to impersonate us to intercept our encrypted email."

The DDoS has allegedly bumped up Greatfire's hosting costs over at Amazon to just around $30,000 daily. It remains to be seen whether Amazon will lessen that amount as a result of the attack, or just eliminate the extra hosting cost entirely.

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Chinese anti-censorship group Greatfire.org suffers massive hack

Googles headquarters in Beijing. Surfers in China might have found it harder to access an uncensored Google via Greatfire.org since the attack. Photograph: Sinopix/REX

An advocacy group that helps internet users inside China bypass blocks on censored content says it is suffering a denial-of-service attack disrupting its operations.

US-subsidised Greatfire.org says the attack started two days ago and traffic is 2,500 times above normal. It has affected mirror, or duplicate, websites that it has set up via encrypted web services offered by companies such as Amazon.

Greatfire.org said the attack has interfered with visitors to sites including Boxun.com, which publicises allegations of corruption and human rights abuses inside China, German provider Deutsche Welle, and Google.

The statement from a co-founder of the group, who goes by the pseudonym Charlie Smith, said its not clear who is behind the attack, but it coincides with increased pressure on the organization over the last few months and public criticism from Chinese authorities.

The Chinese government blocks thousands of websites to prevent what it deems politically sensitive information from reaching Chinese users, an effort dubbed the Great Firewall.

According to the free-expression watchdog Freedom House, since late 2013 Greatfire.org has been hosting content on domains owned by Amazon and other major companies, which officials cannot risk censoring because of their large commercial footprint within China.

Smith said the current denial-of-service attack that is flooding the mirror websites is costing the group up to $30,000 per day in bandwidth.

Greatfire.org says it gets its funding from a variety of sources, including from people and organizations inside China. The Open Technology Fund, a US-government-backed initiative to support internet freedom, says on its website it provided Greatfire.org with $114,000 in 2014.

Zhu Haiquan, spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said: As we have always stated, Chinese laws prohibit cybercrimes of all forms. The Chinese government is making great efforts to combat cybercrimes and safeguard cybersecurity. Jumping to conclusions and making unfounded accusations is not responsible and is counterproductive.

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