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IT Act
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27 Mar 2013
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CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT RulesThe Centre for Internet and Society welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under …
28 Feb 2013
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"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and SocietyThe DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
21 Jan 2013
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TV versus Social Media: The Rights and WrongsFor most ordinary Netizens, everyday speech on social media has as much impact as graffiti in a toilet, and therefore employing the 'principle of equivalence' will result in overregulation of new media.
10 Jan 2013
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No Civil Society Members in the Cyber Regulations Advisory CommitteeThe Government of India has taken our advice and reconstituted the Cyber Regulations Advisory Commitee. But there is no representation of Internet users, citizens, and consumers — only government and industry interests.
20 Dec 2012
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Govt likely to issue guidelines to clarify IT rules soonNorms relate to the role of intermediaries such as telcos, Web service providers, others on hosting content online, writes Surabhi Agarwal.
14 Dec 2012
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Hacktivists deface BSNL websiteThe Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) website, www.bsnl.co.in, was hacked and defaced on Thursday afternoon.
11 Dec 2012
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66A ‘cut & paste job’The controversial Section 66A of the Information Technology Act has borrowed words out of context from British and American laws, according to lawyers here who are calling it a “poor cut-and-paste job”.
10 Dec 2012
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Debate on Section 66A rages onLast week, a reputed BPO in Chennai took down its Facebook page and introduced stricter moderation for posts on its bulletin board.
3 Dec 2012
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Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: CasesIn this blog post Snehashish Ghosh summarizes the facts of a few cases where Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000, has been mentioned or discussed.
30 Nov 2012
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The real Sibal’s law: Resisting Section 66A is futileThe Information Technology Act is “substantially the same” as laws instituted in other democracies like UK and the United States. What’s more, the language that is employed in various sections is exactly the same. Thus was the thrust of …
30 Nov 2012
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The flaw in cyber lawLegal experts and netizens want the controversial clause in the IT Act to be scrapped after two Mumbai girls were arrested for a post on Facebook.
25 Nov 2012
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Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT ActSection 66A of the Information Technology Act, which prescribes 'punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.' is widely held by lawyers and legal academics to be unconstitutional. In this post Pranesh …
24 Nov 2012
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Draft nonsenseSeriously flawed and dodgily drafted provisions in the IT Act provide the state a stick to beat its citizens with.
21 Nov 2012
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The Last Word: Is there a need to review Information Technology Act?Does the high-handed arrest of two young girls mean it's time to review and revise the IT Act?
19 Nov 2012
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Women arrested for Facebook post: Did cops act under Sena pressure?After Bal Thackeray's death, during the Mumbai Bandh, a 21-year-old criticised the shutdown on her Facebook page — her friend approved of it — next thing they know, they are facing a case, and this morning they were arrested.
19 Nov 2012
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Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray's DeathTwo girls have been arbitrarily and unlawfully arrested for making comments about the late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death. Pranesh Prakash explores the legal angles to the arrests.
25 Sep 2012
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Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part IISnehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”).
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 …
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
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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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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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MPs to be taught ‘draconian’ IT Act Rules as India.net support galvanises for annul motionThe blog post by Prachi Shrivastava was published in Legally India on April 23, 2012.
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.
15 Dec 2011
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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being SeenThe Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the …
8 Dec 2011
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Press Coverage of Online Censorship RowWe are maintaining a rolling blog with press references to the row created by the proposal by the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology to pre-screen user-generated Internet content.