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Vinay Rai v. Facebook India and Ors. | Summons Order
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Mar 15, 2012
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last modified
Mar 15, 2012 07:53 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Court Case
This is Judge Sudesh Kumar's summons order (dated December 23, 2011) by which he notes there is enough prima facie evidence to proceed with trial against the intermediaries named and their senior officials. In the order he notes that, "It seems that instead of regulating the undesirable and offensive content they have promoted the same for increasing the profits and promoting their business. They have closed their eyes and promoted obscene derogatory defamatory and inflammatory material continuously on their network. It appears from a bare perusal of the documents that prima facie the accused in connivance with each other and other unknown persons are selling, publicly exhibiting and have put into circulation obscene, lascivious content which also appeals to the prurient interests and tends to deprave and corrupt the persons who are likely to read, see or hear the same."
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Resources
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Save Your Voice — A movement against Web censorship
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 13, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
‘Save Your Voice (SYV)’ is a movement against Web censorship and its main demand is the repealing of the Information Technology Act, said SYV founders, Aseem Trividi, a cartoonist, and Alok Dixit, a journalist, on Monday.
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India debates limits to freedom of expression
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
From Google to Facebook, from world-famous author Salman Rushdie to a little-known political cartoonist, it has become increasingly easy in recent months to offend the Indian government, and to incur the wrath of the censor or even the threat of legal action.
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Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi v. Facebook and Ors (Order dated December 20, 2011)
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Feb 20, 2012
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last modified
Feb 20, 2012 06:02 PM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Google,
Court Case,
Obscenity,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Facebook,
Censorship,
Resources
This is the order passed on December 20, 2011 by Addl. Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar of the Rohini Courts, New Delhi. All errors of spelling, syntax, logic, and law are present in the original.
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India won't censor social media: Telecom Minister
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2012
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last modified
Mar 01, 2012 07:15 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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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Prometheus bound and gagged
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 14, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
Funny how a healthy person like me can collapse one day and end up in the hospital. The doctor who made me go through every lab test available, finally diagnosed the cause after a chat with me. Apparently, I collapsed because I’m getting angry, increasing my blood pressure. The only solution he said is to stop reading newspapers, as I’m getting agitated by headlines like ‘India can go the China way and block sites’, or by how the government says there’s no Internet censorship while all it’s actions point the other way.
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World Narrow Web
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Feb 13, 2012
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last modified
Mar 27, 2012 04:00 PM
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filed under:
Google,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Twitter,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Censorship
Censorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 February 2012.
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Sense and Censorship
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jan 31, 2012
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last modified
Jan 31, 2012 06:15 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills, at the US House of Representatives and Senate, respectively, appear to enforce property rights, but are, in fact, trade bills. This article by Sunil Abraham was published in the Indian Express on 20 January 2012.
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Twitter’s Censorship Move Aimed at Regaining China?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 30, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Twitter, the popular social networking site for micro-blogging, has announced it is open to content censorship and region-based filtering, if required by law. The service boasts nearly 300 million users from across the world. Vinod Yalburgi writes this in the International Business Times.
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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"
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by
Natasha Vaz
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published
Jan 28, 2012
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last modified
Feb 15, 2012 04:27 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Featured
On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present conference analyzed the Draft Privacy Bill and the participants discussed the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
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