It's not just porn. Here are other things quietly censored in Britain

Yesterday a series of sex acts were banned from UK porn films under new regulations. Other than female ejaculation, here are some other things being quietly censored in the UK:

1. These 93 websites

According to PC Pro, a total of 93 piracy websites are blocked by British internet service providers.

2. Open debate

Protesters’ threats of disruption forced organisers to cancel a debate on abortion rights between anti-choice journalist Tim Stanley and pro-choice writer Brendan O’Neill last month. Students had criticised organisers Oxford Students for Life for inviting two men to discuss a procedure they would not have to go through themselves.

3. Google

After the Google Spain “right to be forgotten” case, people in the EU (which includes Britain) can ask Google to remove links about them from search engine results.

4. Northern Ireland

The Defamation Act 2013 is an attempt to ease restrictive libel laws and became law in England and Wales in January 2014. It does not apply to Northern Ireland leading to warnings from writers including Roddy Doyle and Graham Linehan that Belfast could become the libel capital of the world. Scotland has a separate legal system.

It's a disgrace that a journalist in Belfast is less able to expose corruption in Belfast, than the same journalist in Cardiff. Our worry is that unless the law is reformed, newspapers from Ireland, Scotland, Wales or England that end up in Belfast could be subject to Northern Ireland's archaic laws. This could chill free speech far beyond the High Court in Belfast

• Mike Harris of 89up, which advises the Libel Reform Campaign

5. Tweeters

In May this year Michael Abberton said police had visited him at home to advise him to delete some messages about Ukip policies that he had posted on Twitter. Police denied his claims but did confirm they had visited him.

6. Atheist students

South Bank University apologised to its atheist society after the above poster was removed by student union officials during a February 2014 “refreshers” fair, on the grounds that it could cause offence.

7. Books

In October 2014 the Court of Appeal ruled an author could not publish a memoir about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child after his ex-wife argued it would cause their 11-year-old son psychological harm. The matter will come to court again in April 2015 but for now the book is being stored in warehouses around Britain.

8. Art

The Barbican cancelled the controversial ‘Exhibit B - The Human Zoo’, which showed caged black actors dressed up as slaves, after protests from anti-racist groups. The Barbican said that an “extreme” demonstration outside the building worried organisers and gave cause for concern relating to the “safety of performers, audiences and staff”.

In 2012 police in Mayfair asked a gallery to remove a version of Leda and the Swan after concerns it was condoning bestiality. “It’s crazy. Perhaps the cultural references were lost on them,” the gallery’s sales director Jag Mehta said at the time.

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