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                                      "All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and Society
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Feb 28, 2013
                                            
                                            
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The 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. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      No Civil Society Members in the Cyber Regulations Advisory Committee
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jan 09, 2013
                                            
                                            
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The 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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Porn ban: People will soon learn to circumvent ISPs and govt orders, expert says
                                    
 
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 05, 2015
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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                                      Porn block in India sparks outrage
                                    
 
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                                        by
                                            
                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 05, 2015
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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India’s government has triggered a storm of protest after blocking 857 alleged pornography websites, with privacy and internet freedom campaigners, as well as consumers, condemning the move as arbitrary and unlawful.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Place for a safety net
                                    
 
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                                        by
                                            
                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jul 13, 2016
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Vinupriya took her life last week, humiliated by the morphed images of her naked body posted on a social media site. Experts warn that the spike in Internet traffic brings with it an increase in online sexual crimes. Measures must be taken urgently to save lives, they tell T.V. Jayan.
                                      
                                          
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