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                                      India Dismisses Charges of Internet Censorship 
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 26, 2012
                                            
                                            
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                                      India’s Internet Curbs Under Legal Cloud
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 26, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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India’s crackdown on the Internet has caused much debate. But was it legal?
                                      
                                          
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                                      When #GOIBlocks, twitterati fly off their ‘handles’ 
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 26, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question
                                     
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                                              Sunil Abraham
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 26, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Given 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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Blocked websites: Where India flawed
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 27, 2012
                                            
                                            
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Apart 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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Indian government defends Internet blocking
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 28, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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India on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ethnic tensions.
                                      
                                          
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                                      India Blocks Facebook, Twitter, Mass Texts in Response to Unrest
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Sep 03, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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The Indian government has gone on the offensive against Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, demanding hundreds of pages be removed or blocked after political unrest erupted in various parts of the country.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Nov 21, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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For over 30 hours following the death of the Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray on Saturday, stores throughout Mumbai closed their shutters and taxis and autorickshaws stayed off the streets.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Thousands go online against 66A
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Nov 30, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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                                            Information Technology
                                          
                                        
                                      
                                      
An online petition aimed at amending section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act and re-examining internet laws has garnered 3,000 signatures since it began on Tuesday — two days before Kapil Sibal, telecom and IT minister, chairs a meeting with the cyber regulation advisory committee.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Haphazard censorship? Leaked list of blocked websites in India
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 23, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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An analysis of a leaked list of the websites blocked by Indian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on directions from the Department of Telecom bring to light the inconsistencies in India's online censorship efforts. 
                                      
                                          
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