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Freedom of Speech and Expression
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27 Aug 2012
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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
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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.
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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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, …
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 …