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7 Jun 2012
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Anonymous India’s Takedowns Could Be CounterproductiveNikhil Pahwa's blog post was published in Medianama on June 6, 2012.
5 Jun 2012
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Watch out for cyber bulliesIt's time to take a closer look at this form of cyber crime in India, writes KV Kurmanath in an article published in the Hindu Business Line on June 4, 2012.
5 Jun 2012
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Scared by a spoof? You’ve got to be kidding me!Whether it is Mamata Banerjee's recent crackdown on a comic strip or the new legal guidelines that allow touchy readers to have objectionable content taken down, what you say online is under scrutiny. What, then, will happen to news satire …
5 Jun 2012
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Protest@ censorship.comActivism goes online as more angry young citizens decide to make their voices heard, writes Sandhya Soman in an article published in the Times of India. Pranesh Prakash is quoted in the article.
4 Jun 2012
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India’s telecom success story turns sourOver the past decade, the number of cellphones in India shot up from 6.5 million to 900 million, a prime example of how an industry could exploit the vast consumer market here to achieve breathtaking rates of growth and, in the process, …
1 Jun 2012
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The International Copyright System and Access to Education: Challenges, New Access Models and Prospects for New PrinciplesThis event organised by Max Planck Institute was held in Munich, Germany on May 14 and 15, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated in this event.
31 May 2012
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Towards a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’This event was organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation, National Internet Exchange of India and Association for Progressive Communications at Mirza Ghalib Hall, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on May 3, 2012. …
31 May 2012
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Do IT Rules 2011 indirectly leads to Censorship of InternetPranesh Prakash along with Dr. Arvind Gupta, National Convener, BJP IT Cell and Ms. Mishi Choudhary, Executive Director, SFLC participated in a panel discussion on censorship of the Internet on May 8, 2012.
29 May 2012
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Will the Copyright Law Help the Starving Artist?By law, producers are no longer allowed to keep all the royalties to songs, lyrics or other works of arts. Now, these rights will have to be shared with the artist who created them.
28 May 2012
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Why this blocking di?In a bid to curb piracy, film producers are now approaching courts to block websites that host pirated content. But the court orders are so vaguely worded that users lose access to even legitimate content. R Krishna reports.
28 May 2012
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Did Sibal just get arm-twisted by book publishers?The publishing industry seems to have got the better of the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal. Pranesh Prakash's article on parallel importation of books is referred in this article published in FirstPost on May 25, 2012.
26 May 2012
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Internet at Liberty 2012: Promoting Progress and FreedomFollowing the highly successful Internet at Liberty 2010, activists and experts from around the world converged on May 23-24 to explore the most pressing dilemmas and exciting opportunities around free expression in the digital age.
24 May 2012
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Vimeo Ban: More Web CensorshipWhen Indian users logged on to Vimeo and some other video-sharing websites Thursday morning, they were greeted by a rather unusual message: "Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders."
24 May 2012
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Taming the Web, are we?Two decades after its advent changed our lives, the world wide web - as we know it - faces a grave threat. Not from governments alone, but also from tech companies seeking to play gatekeepers.
24 May 2012
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar Urges PM To Withdraw India’s Proposal For UN Committee On Internet-PolicyRajya Sabha MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has written a letter to the Indian Prime Minister, urging him to withdraw India’s proposal to UN seeking governance of Internet control.
24 May 2012
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MPs oppose curbs on internet; Sibal promises discussionsWith MPs raising concerns over open-ended interpretations of restrictive terms in the rules seeking to regulate social media and internet, the government promised to evolve a consensus on points of contention.
24 May 2012
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Kapil Sibal & Co shoot down motion to kill IT Rules: cite terrorism, drugsThe Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 (The Rules) continue to breathe after the statutory motion to annul them moved by member of parliament (MP) from Kerala P Rajeeve was defeated by voice vote in the Rajya …
24 May 2012
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Empires: Individuals in Search of SocietyIn their 2000 bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri announced a new international condition no longer built on the imperialist model of the superpowers of old but on the new condition of globalization. This new and emerging …
24 May 2012
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Cyber Appellate Tribunal in BengaluruBengaluru will be home to the southern chapter of the Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT), which will reach out to victims of cyber crime, the state government announced at the Cyber Security Summit here on Tuesday.
24 May 2012
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Cordon tightens: Rajya Sabha nod to harsh IT rulesThe draconian intermediaries rules of the Information Technology Act that allows the government to aggressively police the internet and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will continue for some more time as a motion to …
23 May 2012
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What’s your gadget update?Techie socialist or flighty fashionista? The gadgets you carry say a lot about you, writes Shweta Taneja in this article published in LiveMint on May 22, 2012.
2 May 2012
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Should the censors tighten Savita Bhabhi’s hook?*"Should the censors tighten Savita Bhabhi's hook, asks a blog entry published in Churumuri on May 1, 2012.
1 May 2012
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From Cyber India to Censor India: Groups challenge didactic govtAseem Trivedi is a political cartoonist who was closely associated with Anna Hazare's movement against corruption in India. Having published his cartoons in several newspapers, the 25-year-old, who hails from Kanpur, launched a website …
30 Apr 2012
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It’s mainstream vs socialMainstream and social media share an increasingly uneasy relationship. Mahima Kaul, a Guest Columnist with the Sunday Guardian wrote this article. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
30 Apr 2012
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Immigrants not NativesSally Wyatt reviews the four-book collective, Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? edited by Nishant Shah & Fieke Jansen.
26 Apr 2012
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Social Media 1, Indian Government 0The futility of the Indian government’s attempts to control what is posted on Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites was thrown into high relief this week, after a video purportedly showing Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singvi …
26 Apr 2012
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Private sector censorsIf business decides what’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’ speech, it can lead to multiple interpretations and arbitrary decisions. The article by Salil Tripathi was published in LiveMint on April 25, 2012.
25 Apr 2012
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Views | Why the Left may for once be rightOn the opening day of the upcoming parliamentary session on Tuesday, the Rajya Sabha is set to vote on an annulment motion against the IT rules, moved by P. Rajeeve of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
25 Apr 2012
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Privacy International's Trip to AsiaIn February 2012, the PI team travelled to India, Bangladesh and Hong Kong to meet with our local partners in the region and speak at four conferences they had organized. We also got the chance to interview our partners in India and …
25 Apr 2012
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MPs to be taught ‘draconian’ IT Act Rules as India.net support galvanises for annul motionThe blog post by Prachi Shrivastava was published in Legally India on April 23, 2012.