Jordan 🇯🇴, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a Middle Eastern nation that is a founding member of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.
General censorship[]
Book censorship[]
Internet censorship[]
Ranked "Partly Free" by Freedom House's Freedom on the Net, scoring 47 out of 100 in 2021.[1]
Movie censorship[]
- The Da Vinci Code - this film is banned due to blasphemous content.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - this film was banned in Jordan due to presence of America Chavez, a lesbian character.
- Eternals - Although homosexuality is legal in Jordan, the film was edited to remove any scenes of intimacy (heterosexual or homosexual) as standard practice for this market.[2]
Television censorship[]
Video game censorship[]
- Luck Be a Landlord was banned in Jordan from Google Store for violating the gambling policies[3].
References[]
- ↑ Jordan, Freedom on the Net. 2021-09-20.
- ↑ ‘Eternals’ Won’t Be Playing Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain & Oman by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline. 2021-11-04.
- ↑ https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-is-now-banned-in-13-countries-on-the-google-play-store
External links[]
- Human rights in Jordan at Wikipedia
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