Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
5 Sep 2012
News
Need a standard strategy to deal with Web issues: ChandrasekharThe government has been facing allegations of Internet censorship for over a year now.
4 Sep 2012
News
Officials Raise Questions over Indian Government’s EffortsAs per a recent report, it has been revealed that the Indian government despite making several efforts to resolve the issue of hate speech seems failing in the same.
4 Sep 2012
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Legitimate Restrictions on Freedom of Online Speech: Deadlock to DialogueThe event was hosted by FICCI Communications and Digital Economy Committee on September 4, 2012 at FICCI, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash spoke on censorship and the way forward.
4 Sep 2012
News
Is the govt caught in the 'censorship' web?NDTV aired a one-hour debate on censorship in "We the People" episode hosted by Barkha Dutt on August 26, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated in the discussions as a speaker.
4 Sep 2012
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Internet Governance PlenarySunil Abraham was a panelist along with Ang Peng Hwa, Paul Wilson, Duangthip Chomprang and Raul Echeberria at this event organised by APNIC on August 28, 2012. Kuo Wei Wu, CEO, National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion …
4 Sep 2012
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Government to hold talks with stakeholders on Internet censorshipIn an unprecedented move, the government, through the Department of Telecommunications and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, has agreed to initiate dialogue on Internet censorship with mega Internet companies, social …
3 Sep 2012
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The state. And the rage of the cyber demonThe Internet might be a Pandora’s box. But should the government be wasting time regulating the cacophony?
3 Sep 2012
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Tata Photon unblocks Wordpress.comAs of yesterday, the Tata Photon service of the Internet service provider (ISP) Tata Teleservices seems to have lifted the block it had put on the Wordpress.com domain for over a week.
3 Sep 2012
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India Blocks Facebook, Twitter, Mass Texts in Response to UnrestThe Indian government has gone on the offensive against Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, demanding hundreds of pages be removed or blocked after political unrest erupted in various parts of the country.
3 Sep 2012
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Facebook's Delicate Dance With Delhi On CensorshipAt the end of last week, a hashtag briskly rose across India: #Emergency2012. It was a reference to the 21-month stint, beginning in the summer of 1975, when then PM Indira Gandhi determined democracy an inconvenience.
2 Sep 2012
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Watch out for fettered speechThe constant attempts at censorship in the name of national security should give all right-thinking Indians pause.
2 Sep 2012
Blog post
SMS Block as Threat to Free SpeechIf you could text just one or two people in a day, who would you choose? Many of us have had to make this choice thanks to the order limiting us to five texts a day. Short Message Service (SMS) is not used primarily to send staccato …
31 Aug 2012
Blog post
India's Internet JamAs authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
28 Aug 2012
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Indian government defends Internet blockingIndia on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ethnic tensions.
28 Aug 2012
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India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdownThe government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
28 Aug 2012
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Details emerge on government blockade of websitesFacebook pages, Twitter handles among 300 unique web addresses blocked by ISPs.
27 Aug 2012
Event
Role of the US Tech Companies in Government Surveillance: A Lecture by Christopher SoghoianChristopher Soghoian will deliver a lecture on the role US tech companies play in assisting government surveillance at the Centre for Internet & Society office in Bangalore on August 27, 2012, from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
27 Aug 2012
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Internet clamp outrageThe Indian government's attempts to block social media accounts and websites that it blames for spreading panic have been inept and possibly illegal, a top Internet expert said yesterday.
27 Aug 2012
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Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbsIndia’s 900m-plus mobile telephones have fallen unusually quiet since Saturday, when the government curbed text and multimedia messages for 15 days in an attempt to dispel panic among north-easterners fearing attacks from angry Muslims.
27 Aug 2012
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India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'?This is the second post in the 2-part series about the perceived role of social media in the wake of the Assam clashes that spilled across the country and threatened to upset the nation's peace.
27 Aug 2012
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India threatens action against Twitter for ethnic violence 'rumors'India threatened to take action on Thursday against Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions, as leaked documents revealed the government scrambling to censor online material.
27 Aug 2012
News
India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdownThe Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
27 Aug 2012
News
India Blocks News Website Pages for 'Spreading Fear' over Assam ViolenceAccess to more than 300 internet web pages including some published by Telegraph, Times of India and Al-Jazeera blocked.
27 Aug 2012
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India Bans Mass SMS to Counter PanicLast year social networking was credited with helping to organize revolutions across the Middle East and with getting normally apathetic middle-class Indians onto the streets to protest corruption.
27 Aug 2012
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Delhi defends Internet blockingIndia on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ethnic tensions.
27 Aug 2012
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Criticism mounts over India censorshipIndia’s government is facing fierce criticism from privacy groups, political opponents and irate internet users accusing it of an excessive and poorly targeted censorship drive as it seeks to contain social alarm triggered by communal …
27 Aug 2012
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Blocked websites: Where India flawedApart from not giving 48 hours response time, the Indian government has blocked some websites which don't exist or don't have web addresses, says an analyst.
26 Aug 2012
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When #GOIBlocks, twitterati fly off their ‘handles’Ever since the news broke mid-week that some genuine Twitter accounts and six spoof accounts were blocked, the social networking platform has been in a tizzy.
26 Aug 2012
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Twitter handles: How and why govt erred and what it can do to be smarter & more effectiveHere's a weekend reading recommendation for the mandarins who run the Government of India: it's a freely downloadable, a 145-page long document called "After the Riots". It is a report by the Riot Communities and Victims Panel, set up by …
26 Aug 2012
Blog post
To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the questionGiven the disruption to public order caused by the mass exodus of North-Eastern Indians from several cities, the government has had for the first time in many years, a legitimate case to crackdown on Internet intermediaries and their users.