Internet Governance Blog
Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II
- September 25, 2012
Snehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”).
Read more →SMS Block as Threat to Free Speech
- September 02, 2012
If you could text just one or two people in a day, who would you choose? Many of us have had to make this choice thanks to the order limiting us to five texts a day. Short Message Service (SMS) is not used primarily to send staccato messages like the telegraph was.
Read more →India's Internet Jam
- March 20, 2014
As authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
Read more →To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question
- August 26, 2012
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.
Read more →Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
- August 25, 2012
I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
Read more →What lurks beneath the Network
- August 25, 2012
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.
Read more →Censoring the Internet: A brief manual
- August 24, 2012
Blocking websites on the Internet should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the government of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice.
Read more →Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
- August 22, 2012
Pranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
Read more →The Perils of 'Hactivism'
- August 20, 2012
Civil disobedience includes accepting the penalty for breaking the law. Untraceable hackers are far removed from this ethic.
Read more →Open letter to Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom
- May 28, 2012
Last month I wrote an open letter to Hillary Clinton. It was based on a presentation I that I made during a panel discussion at a Google sponsored conference titled Internet at Liberty 2012 in Washington DC on May 24, 2012.
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