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Ruling in India shields Web posts
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 27, 2015
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IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
The Supreme Court in India struck down a section of its country’s information technology act Tuesday that had made it illegal for anyone to spread ‘‘offensive messages’’ on electronic devices and resulted in arrests over posts on Facebook and other social media.
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India's Online Freedom Advocates Hail Court Ruling on Free Speech
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 27, 2015
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filed under:
IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
Online freedom advocates in India are hailing a court ruling that struck down a controversial law seen as infringing free speech on the Internet. But in a country expected to have the world’s largest number of web users by 2018, some concerns about net censorship remain.
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Sagarika
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Mar 27, 2015 02:23 AM
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Siddharth
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Mar 27, 2015 02:26 AM
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SC has set a high threshold for tolerance: Lawrence Liang
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 28, 2015
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filed under:
IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
Lawyer-activist Lawrence Liang on why SC upheld section 69A and the implications of striking down section 66A.
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66A DEAD. LONG LIVE 66A!
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 28, 2015
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last modified
Apr 01, 2015 02:11 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
Last Tuesday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo walked into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office. India's most compulsive and most-followed tweeter, Modi, as Gujarat chief minister, had protested when the Manmohan Singh government blocked the micro-blogging site of a few journalists. Modi had blacked out his own Twitter profile and tweeted: “May God give good sense to everyone.”
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CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 04, 2015
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last modified
Apr 01, 2015 03:31 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Conference on UNESCO’s Internet Study: access, free expression, privacy and ethics.
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Internet becomes vernacular with relaunch of e-bhasha
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 23, 2015
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 05:49 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
With the relaunch of e-bhasha as a mission mode project, there is a fresh urgency to create content and technical solutions in Indian languages.
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Live Chat: Aadhaar: An identity crisis?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 17, 2015
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 06:54 AM
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Aadhaar card is not compulsory for citizens and "no person should be denied any benefits or ‘suffer’ for not having the Aadhaar cards issued by Unique Identification Authority of India," the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
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Delhi Govt Sets Up WiFi Task Force
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 19, 2015
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 07:06 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Delhi government is believed to have set up a task force to enable WiFi in the city. The task force, which has been recently constituted, includes entrepreneur and start-up advisor Mahesh Murthy, Medianama founder Nikhil Pahwa and Center for Internet Society director Pranesh Prakash, as per a report by PTI.
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