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Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
26 Aug 2012
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Some ISPs block Wordpress domain across IndiaLatest reports confirm that Tata Photon has blocked access to the Wordpress.com domain across India, following a government order to block web pages containing offensive content.
26 Aug 2012
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Regulating the Internet by fiatThe Union government’s move to ban or block 310 online entities is worrisome.
26 Aug 2012
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India’s Internet Curbs Under Legal CloudIndia’s crackdown on the Internet has caused much debate. But was it legal?
26 Aug 2012
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India Dismisses Charges of Internet CensorshipRead, listen and learn English with this story. Double-click on any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary.
26 Aug 2012
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Inde: la tentative de contrôler l'internet est "illégale"Des spécialistes de l'internet ont qualifié vendredi de "complètement illégale" la tentative du gouvernement indien de bloquer des messages et des vidéos soupçonnés d'avoir contribué à attiser de récentes tensions interethniques.
25 Aug 2012
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What lurks beneath the NetworkThere is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown …
25 Aug 2012
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Twitter users hit back at government banThe 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.
25 Aug 2012
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Tweets and twitsThe orders issued by the Ministry of Communication and IT to block more than 300 items on the Internet, including Twitter handles, Facebook pages, YouTube videos, blogposts, pages of certain websites, and in some cases entire websites, tell …
25 Aug 2012
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left BangaloreI woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space …
25 Aug 2012
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Internet expert criticizes Indian cyber blockadesThe 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 Friday.
25 Aug 2012
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India's social media crackdown reveals clumsy govt machinery"High-handed" and "reckless" are some of the words used in the media to describe the government's online crackdown.
25 Aug 2012
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India seeks a tighter grip on social mediaIndia, with the world's third largest number of Facebook users, is clamping down on social media after recent posting of inflammatory videos on Web sites.
25 Aug 2012
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How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t helpBanning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known.
25 Aug 2012
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Govt in line of fire over web censorshipSocial media abuzz with allegations of government gagging free speech in the garb of curbing hate messages.
25 Aug 2012
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Govt cracks down on TwitterIndia’s crackdown on social media platforms for hosting “inflammatory” content — following the violence in Assam and the exodus of northeastern people from several cities — seems to have been a little reckless.
25 Aug 2012
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Blocking Twitter: How Internet Service Providers & telcos were caught between tweets and tall egosLong derided as 'dumb pipes' to the Web, Internet service providers (ISPs) are discovering these days that insult is being increasingly followed up by injury.
24 Aug 2012
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New Delhi Expands Curbs on Web ContentIndia on Thursday broadened recent efforts to regulate the Internet with moves to block Twitter accounts of some prominent journalists and content from mainstream news organizations, sparking a backlash across social media in the country.
24 Aug 2012
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NE exodus: List containing 309 blocked URLs leaks onlineLatest reports coming in have confirmed that a list containing 309 URLs, whose ban the government had sought in light of the Assam violence and the subsequent NE exodus, has been leaked online.
24 Aug 2012
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Internet expert Pranesh Prakash criticizes Indian cyber blockadesThe 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 on Friday.
24 Aug 2012
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India’s ethnic clashes intensify within social-media maelstromIt began in mid-July: First came a series of retaliatory killings between ethnic communities in the state of Assam in mid-July. Soon nearly 500,000 people had fled their homes for grim refugee camps. The central government belatedly sent in …
24 Aug 2012
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India limits social media after civil unrestHas the Indian government lost its sense of humour? That’s what some in India were asking as word spread that authorities had pressured Twitter into blocking several accounts parodying the prime minister after civil unrest that saw dozens …
24 Aug 2012
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Govt vs Tweeple: Has clampdown hit free speech?Has the Government crossed the line by ordering the blocking of several Twitter accounts, many belonging to prominent journalists? The debate was featured in NDTV on August 23, 2012.
24 Aug 2012
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Govt orders blocking of 300 specific URLs including 16 Twitter accountsThe government stepped up its efforts to stop what it feels is an online campaign of misinformation and rumour mongering in the wake of lower Assam riots and ordered blocking of 16 Twitter accounts, including two belonging to journalists, …
24 Aug 2012
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Censoring the Internet: A brief manualBlocking websites on the Internet should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the government of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice.
23 Aug 2012
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Sixth Meeting of the two Sub-Groups on Privacy Issues under the Chairmanship of Justice AP ShahThe sixth meeting of the two sub-groups on privacy issues will be held on August 31, 2012 at 10.00 a.m. in Committee Room No. 228, Yojana Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi under the chairmanship of Justice AP Shah, former chief justice of …
23 Aug 2012
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Northeast exodus: Is there a mechanism to pre-screen social media content?The government has passed the blame buck on social media and blocked hundreds of websites, which it claims, hosted hate speech and inflammatory content, enough to incite violence. But is it feasible to pre-screen objectionable or …
23 Aug 2012
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India limits social media after civil unrestIndian officials have gone too far in limiting text messages and pressuring local Internet firms as well as Twitter and others to block accounts, critics say.
23 Aug 2012
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India Debates Misuse of Social MediaIndia has blocked more than 250 websites after provocative online content spread panic among people from the country's northeast, prompting some of them to flee Indian cities. The crackdown has sparked a debate about how the country will …
23 Aug 2012
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Haphazard censorship? Leaked list of blocked websites in IndiaAn analysis of a leaked list of the websites blocked by Indian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on directions from the Department of Telecom bring to light the inconsistencies in India's online censorship efforts.
23 Aug 2012
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Government asks Twitter to block fake 'PMO India' accounts; site fails to respondA standoff between the government and microblogging service Twitter, that has got India's online community up in arms, continues, as Twitter is still to act on India's requests to block some of the fake 'PMO India' accounts.