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Censorship
287 items.
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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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.
22 Aug 2012
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Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem PanicThe Indian government’s efforts to stem a weeklong panic among some ethnic minorities has again put it at odds with Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
22 Aug 2012
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India blocks more than 250 Web sites for inciting hate, panicNearly 80 people have been killed and 400,000 displaced in fighting between Muslims and India’s Hindu Bodo tribespeople in Assam, a northeastern state of India, in recent weeks. The violence has prompted many northeasterners living in major …
22 Aug 2012
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Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)Pranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
20 Aug 2012
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The Perils of 'Hactivism'Civil disobedience includes accepting the penalty for breaking the law. Untraceable hackers are far removed from this ethic.
10 Aug 2012
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Respite from Internet Censorship?Of late, a lot of the blocked websites have started reappearing. So should we sit back and relax? We take a look at how it's not really the start of something beautiful...writes Nimish Sawant. Sunil Abraham is quoted.
13 Jul 2012
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Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful HackersIf there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated …