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Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official Statement
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Admin
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Oct 29, 2018
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Internet Governance,
Censorship
Going by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
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MHA snoop order & bid to amend IT rules: China-like clampdown or tracking unlawful content?
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by
Admin
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Dec 30, 2018
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
An MHA order last week authorised 10 government agencies to scan data on computers. This was followed by the Modi government’s proposal to amend the Information Technology rules for social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter to “proactively identify, remove or disable access to unlawful information or content” in order to curb fake news online.
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Regulating Sexist Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
May 31, 2021
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
This paper is part of a series under IT for Change’s project, Recognize, Resist, Remedy: Combating Sexist Hate Speech Online. The series, titled Rethinking Legal-Institutional Approaches to Sexist Hate Speech in India, aims to create a space for civil society actors to proactively engage in the remaking of online governance, bringing together inputs from legal scholars, practitioners, and activists. The papers reflect upon the issue of online sexism and misogyny, proposing recommendations for appropriate legal-institutional responses. The series is funded by EdelGive Foundation, India and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Blog
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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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Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful Hackers
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by
Nishant Shah
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Jul 13, 2012
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last modified
Aug 06, 2012 06:56 AM
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Internet Governance,
Censorship
If there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated government machinery has been trying to control and contain the burgeoning online spaces, only to be put in their place by the new-age tech-ninjas that have risen as the new heroes in our digital times.
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The Making of an Asian City
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 21, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM
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Shanghai,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Censorship,
Communities
Nishant Shah attended the conference on 'Pluralism in Asia: Asserting Transnational Identities, Politics, and Perspectives' organised by the Asia Scholarship Foundation, in Bangkok, where he presented the final paper based on his work in Shanghai. The paper, titled 'The Making of an Asian City', consolidates the different case studies and stories collected in this blog, in order to make a larger analyses about questions of cultural production, political interventions and the invisible processes that are a part of the IT Cities.
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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Out of the Bedroom
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Nishant Shah
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Aug 25, 2013
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last modified
Sep 06, 2013 08:32 AM
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Internet Governance,
Censorship
We have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 14, 2011
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Google,
Access to Knowledge,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
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Parliament panel blasts govt over ambiguous internet laws
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 28, 2013
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
IT Act,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation has come out with a report in which it has lambasted the government and asked it to make changes to IT rules that govern internet-related cases in India.
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What if the Net shut down for a few days
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 30, 2013
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last modified
Apr 03, 2013 11:01 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
When spammers attacked Spamhaus, a European spam-fighting group in what was billed as the "biggest cyber attack in history", they managed to temporarily slow down the internet. But what if dedicated attackers succeeded in shutting down the internet for a longer time, maybe a few days? What would be the potential impact of such a scenario in a world where crucial data is stored on emails, most financial transactions have shifted online and an entire generation has grown up not realising what life without the web could be like?
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