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Censorship
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28 Jun 2012
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Internet Freedom At Home: Governments, Companies Need Accountability, Speakers SayThe freedom to access the internet does not translate into freedom of expression in many countries of the world, including in western economies, according to speakers at a peer forum organised yesterday by the United States mission to the …
26 Jun 2012
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No more blocking of entire websites?The Madras HC has taken one step to ensure that entire websites are no longer blocked, but it doesn't mean that arbitrary takedowns will cease.
18 Jun 2012
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India's struggle for online freedom"65 years since your independence," a new battle for freedom is under way in India — according to a YouTube video uploaded by an Indian member of Anonymous, the global "hacktivist" movement.
18 Jun 2012
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India: The New Front Line in the Global Struggle for Internet FreedomThe government tussles with Internet freedom activists in the world's largest democracy.
18 Jun 2012
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Hackers Take Protest to Indian Streets and CyberspaceFirst there was self-styled Gandhian activist Anna Hazare who took to the streets to protest corruption. Now a group agitating against censorship on the Internet has arrived in India.
18 Jun 2012
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'Anonymous' hackers to protest Indian Internet lawsGlobal hacking movement Anonymous has called for protesters to take to the streets in 16 cities around India on Saturday over what it considers growing government censorship of the Internet, writes Pratap Chakravarty.
14 Jun 2012
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The War for India's InternetWhy is the world's biggest democracy cracking down on Facebook and Google? Rebecca Mackinnon's article was published in Foreign Policy on June 6, 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 …
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.
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.
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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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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Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for ApplicationsThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by August 15, 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.
30 Apr 2012
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Chilling Effects and Frozen WordsWhat if the real danger is not that we lose our freedom of speech and expression but our sense of humour as a nation? Lawrence Liang's op-ed was published in the Hindu on April 30, 2012.
27 Apr 2012
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the InternetThe Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched …
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.
26 Apr 2012
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India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderismCyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable of framing fair, just, and informed laws and policies. Pranesh Prakash suggests …
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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Mobilising support for freedom on the WebA motion in the Rajya Sabha has sought annulment of the IT intermediary guidelines, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on April 22, 2012.
25 Apr 2012
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Expect anti-net censorship echo in houseFor the anti-Internet censorship movement in the country, hope is now in sight. Their fight against the intermediary provisions (section 79) of the IT laws, according to which, an intermediary (website, domain owner) would have to take off …
25 Apr 2012
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Campaign against curbs on websites gathers steamFor political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and his blogger-cum-journalist friend Alok Dixit, who both ran a website against corruption, a tryst with the blind side of law triggered their mission against “gagging” of the new-age Indian Internet …
11 Apr 2012
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A beauty’s blog creates furoreHer first Tamil poetry anthology Otraiyilaiyena (As a single leaf) saw three editions and the second one Ulagin Azhagiya Muthal Penn (The first beautiful woman in the world) invited mixed reactions like Iyal Poetry Award and a call for a …
10 Apr 2012
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet 2011Intermediaries are widely recognised as essential cogs in the wheel of exercising the right to freedom of expression on the Internet. Most major jurisdictions around the world have introduced legislations for limiting intermediary liability …
27 Mar 2012
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Statutory Motion Against Intermediary Guidelines RulesRajya Sabha MP, Shri P. Rajeev has moved a motion that the much-criticised Intermediary Guidelines Rules be annulled.
13 Mar 2012
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Save Your Voice — A movement against Web censorship‘Save Your Voice (SYV)’ is a movement against Web censorship and its main demand is the repealing of the Information Technology Act, said SYV founders, Aseem Trividi, a cartoonist, and Alok Dixit, a journalist, on Monday.
15 Feb 2012
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India won't censor social media: Telecom MinisterIndia does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook, a minister said Tuesday, but he demanded that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media. The article by AFP was published in the Tribune on February …
13 Feb 2012
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World Narrow WebCensorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 February 2012.