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Hiawatha Talks Tech: Censoring Actor's Names On IMDb

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The entertainment website IMDb. (Jon Fingas/Flickr)
The entertainment website IMDb. (Jon Fingas/Flickr)

California lawmakers just passed a bill that prevents IMDb, the popular entertainment information website, from revealing actors ages. Hiawatha Bray, technology writer for The Boston Globe, calls that censorship.

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Hiawatha Bray, technology writer for the business section of The Boston Globe. He tweets @GlobeTechLab.

This segment aired on March 23, 2017.

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