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                                       Legitimate Restrictions on Freedom of Online Speech: Deadlock to Dialogue
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The event was hosted by FICCI Communications and Digital Economy Committee on September 4, 2012 at FICCI, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash spoke on censorship and the way forward.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists
                                    
 
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A group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Press controls ‘send wrong message to rest of world’
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Mar 26, 2013
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Britain could trigger an international media crackdown if the Government goes ahead with plans for a Royal Charter to introduce a new Press regulator, free speech campaigners warned yesterday. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT Rules
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The 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 section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
                                      
                                          
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                                      FOEX Live: June 1-7, 2014
                                     
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                                              Geetha Hariharan
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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A weekly selection of news on online freedom of expression and digital technology from across India (and some parts of the world). 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Your telco could help spy on you
                                    
 
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Telecom minister gives approval to changes in rules for mobile licences to enable such mass surveillance.
                                      
                                          
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                                      India won't censor social media: Telecom Minister
                                    
 
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India 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 14, 2012. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      India's struggle for online freedom 
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jun 18, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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"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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      India: The New Front Line in the Global Struggle for Internet Freedom 
                                    
 
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                                              Jun 18, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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The government tussles with Internet freedom activists in the world's largest democracy.
                                      
                                          
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                                      A beauty’s blog creates furore
                                    
 
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                                              Apr 11, 2012
                                            
                                            
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Her 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 ban by Hindu Makkal Katchi. Parathaiyarul Raani (Queen of sluts) her third collection was a reaction to all the moral policing. 
                                      
                                          
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