Centre for Internet & Society

Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)

by Pranesh Prakash

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.

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Privacy Matters — Medical Privacy

by Natasha Vaz

On June 30, 2012, Privacy India in partnership with the Indian Network for People living with HIV/AIDS, Centre for Internet & Society, IDRC, Society in Action Group, with support from London-based Privacy International, held a public discussion on "Medical Privacy" at the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration.

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India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderism

by Pranesh Prakash

Cyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable of framing fair, just, and informed laws and policies. Pranesh Prakash suggests they learn from the DEIT's Internet Governance Division, and Brazil, and adopt multi-stakeholderism as a core principle of Internet policy-making.

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Statutory Motion Against Intermediary Guidelines Rules

by Pranesh Prakash

Rajya Sabha MP, Shri P. Rajeev has moved a motion that the much-criticised Intermediary Guidelines Rules be annulled.

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How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)

by Pranesh Prakash

Without getting into questions of what should and should not be unlawful speech, Pranesh Prakash chooses to take a look at how Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services, and how it makes it much easier than getting offline printed speech removed.

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Press Coverage of Online Censorship Row

by Pranesh Prakash

We are maintaining a rolling blog with press references to the row created by the proposal by the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology to pre-screen user-generated Internet content.

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India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy

by Pranesh Prakash

This is the statement made by India at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which its proposal for the UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy was presented.

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Analysis of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking

by Pranesh Prakash

In this blog post, Pranesh Prakash briefly analyses the DIT's response to an RTI request on website blocking alongside the most recent edition of Google's Transparency Report, and what it tells us about the online censorship regime in India.

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