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  2. Censorship of Skype - Wikipedia

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    Saudi Arabia censors a wide range of media, including books, newspapers, magazines, films, television, and Internet content. The Saudi government closely monitors and restricts the media in accordance with official state law. Many Internet activities such as websites and VoIP (WhatsApp calling, Skype etc.) are strictly restricted in Saudi Arabia.

  3. Google Street View in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View covers most regencies and cities in Sumatra (except Aceh ), Java, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, and parts of North Maluku (includes Ternate, Tidore, and parts of Halmahera ). In October 2019, Google excluded and removed most of the Street View images of Aceh due to a controversial incident. [18]

  4. Internet censorship in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The ban imposed on Facebook was the result of a ruling by the Lahore High Court, while the ban on the other websites was imposed arbitrarily by the PTA on the grounds of "objectionable content", a different response from earlier requests, such as pages created to promote peaceful demonstrations in Pakistani cities being removed because they ...

  5. Persecution of Falun Gong - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese government had alleged that Falun Gong was an "evil cult" or "heretical sect" and had used that official rationale to justify to ban and eliminate the movement. [4] [5] [6] An extra-constitutional body called the 6-10 Office was created to lead the persecution of Falun Gong. [7]

  6. Chess in China - Wikipedia

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    China's 2008 Olympiad Team: left to right, Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Wang Hao China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the 2014 Olympiad, and the average rating for the country's top ten players third in the FIDE rankings as of April 2023.

  7. Foot binding - Wikipedia

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    Foot binding ( simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú ), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.

  8. Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia

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    China. Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in China are considered illegal. Former Canadian-American Jehovah's Witness missionary Amber Scorah recounted the lengths that she and her husband went through to preach illegally in China in the early 2000s. She describes how local Jehovah's Witnesses were forced to meet secretly in a different location ...

  9. Xiao Zhan boycott incident - Wikipedia

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    The Xiao Zhan boycott incident, also known as the 227 incident, is a 2020 online controversy that originated between the fans of Chinese actor Xiao Zhan and Archive of Our Own users in Mainland China. [1] [2] The incident started when the internet censorship system known as the Great Firewall of China blocked the fan fiction publishing platform ...