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MPs to be taught ‘draconian’ IT Act Rules as India.net support galvanises for annul motion: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 25, 2012 — filed under: IT Act, Internet Governance, Public Accountability
The blog post by Prachi Shrivastava was published in Legally India on April 23, 2012.
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Views | Why the Left may for once be right: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 25, 2012 — filed under: IT Act, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
On 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).
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet: by Rishabh Dara — published Apr 27, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:22 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Research, Featured, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
The Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched upon issues relating to freedom of expression. The results of the paper demonstrate that the ‘Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011’ notified by the Government of India on April 11, 2011 have a chilling effect on free expression.
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India limits social media after civil unrest: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2012 — filed under: Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
Has the Indian government lost its sense of humour? That’s what some in India were asking as word spread that authorities had pressured Twitter into blocking several accounts parodying the prime minister after civil unrest that saw dozens of people from northeastern India killed and thousands flee in panic.
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Internet expert Pranesh Prakash criticizes Indian cyber blockades: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
The government's attempts to block social media accounts and websites that it blames for spreading panic have been inept and possibly illegal, a top internet expert said on Friday.
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India seeks a tighter grip on social media: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
India, with the world's third largest number of Facebook users, is clamping down on social media after recent posting of inflammatory videos on Web sites.
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Govt in line of fire over web censorship: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
Social media abuzz with allegations of government gagging free speech in the garb of curbing hate messages.
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How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t help: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
Banning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known.
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What lurks beneath the Network: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
There is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown Anna Hazare spectacles), there is this increasing belief in the innate possibilities of social media as providing ways by which the world as we know it shall change for the better. Young people are getting on to the streets and demanding their rights to the future.
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Tweets and twits: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
The orders issued by the Ministry of Communication and IT to block more than 300 items on the Internet, including Twitter handles, Facebook pages, YouTube videos, blogposts, pages of certain websites, and in some cases entire websites, tell a revealing story of a government that has simply not applied its mind to the issue of how to deal with hate speech, both cyber and traditional.
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