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- Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act
- Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which prescribes 'punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.' is widely held ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 14, 2012 09:51 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Featured, Homepage
- Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech
- Why is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this? by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 05, 2012 07:06 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Facebook, Google deny spying access
- The CEOs of Facebook and Google on Saturday categorically denied that the US National Security Agency had "direct access" to their company servers for snooping ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 02, 2013 10:18 AM — Filed under: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
- CIS analyses the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, from a public interest perspective to sift the good from the bad, and importantly to point out what crucial ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 21, 2011 06:01 AM — Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Consumer Rights, Copyright, Fair Dealings, Public Accountability, Intellectual Property Rights, RTI, Featured, Broadcasting, Publications, Submissions, Technological Protection Measures
- Debate on Section 66A rages on
- Last week, a reputed BPO in Chennai took down its Facebook page and introduced stricter moderation for posts on its bulletin board. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2012 09:44 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Internet Governance, Public Accountability
- Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India
- The European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide ... by Jyoti Panday — last modified Oct 14, 2015 02:40 PM — Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Economy, Public Accountability, Privacy, Platform Responsibility, Data Protection, Accountability, Digital Security, Digital India, Internet Governance
- Mobilising support for freedom on the Web
- A motion in the Rajya Sabha has sought annulment of the IT intermediary guidelines, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on April 22, 2012. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:02 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Expect anti-net censorship echo in house
- For the anti-Internet censorship movement in the country, hope is now in sight. Their fight against the intermediary provisions (section 79) of the IT laws, ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:07 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Campaign against curbs on websites gathers steam
- For political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and his blogger-cum-journalist friend Alok Dixit, who both ran a website against corruption, a tryst with the blind side ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 25, 2012 11:19 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A Report
- Zainab Bawa reports on the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for ... by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, Digital Access, Public Accountability, Discussion, Featured, Transparency, Politics
- CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
- The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AM — Filed under: Conference, Open Standards, Digital Activism, Digital Governance, Digital Access, Public Accountability, Research, Featured
- Meeting on Proactive Disclosure and Personal Data (Delhi, May 13, 5:30 pm)
- CIS is organising an informal discussion on topics related to proactive disclosure and personal data thrown up by the recently published report by Amber Sinha ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified May 13, 2017 04:32 AM — Filed under: Privacy, Open Data, Open Government Data, Internet Governance, Public Accountability
- Blocking Twitter: How Internet Service Providers & telcos were caught between tweets and tall egos
- Long derided as 'dumb pipes' to the Web, Internet service providers (ISPs) are discovering these days that insult is being increasingly followed up by injury. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:36 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India Blocks News Website Pages for 'Spreading Fear' over Assam Violence
- Access to more than 300 internet web pages including some published by Telegraph, Times of India and Al-Jazeera blocked. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 04:53 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown
- The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 06:56 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
- India’s 900m-plus mobile telephones have fallen unusually quiet since Saturday, when the government curbed text and multimedia messages for 15 days in an ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Details emerge on government blockade of websites
- Facebook pages, Twitter handles among 300 unique web addresses blocked by ISPs. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 09:51 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
- 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, ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Facebook's Delicate Dance With Delhi On Censorship
- At the end of last week, a hashtag briskly rose across India: #Emergency2012. It was a reference to the 21-month stint, beginning in the summer of 1975, when ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 03, 2012 04:39 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Government to hold talks with stakeholders on Internet censorship
- In an unprecedented move, the government, through the Department of Telecommunications and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, has agreed ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 03:39 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Government asks Twitter to block fake 'PMO India' accounts; site fails to respond
- A standoff between the government and microblogging service Twitter, that has got India's online community up in arms, continues, as Twitter is still to act on ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 12:24 PM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- US Clampdown Worse than the Great Firewall
- If you thought China’s Internet censorship was evil, think again. American moves to clean up the Web could hurt global surfers, writes Sunil Abraham in this ... by Sunil Abraham — last modified Jan 26, 2012 08:42 PM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance
- India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
- It's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2012 09:46 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance
- Kapil Sibal & Co shoot down motion to kill IT Rules: cite terrorism, drugs
- The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 (The Rules) continue to breathe after the statutory motion to annul them moved by member of ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 24, 2012 09:45 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship, Information Technology
- Twitter’s Censorship Move Aimed at Regaining China?
- 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. ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 30, 2012 04:54 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Save Your Voice — A movement against Web 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 ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 13, 2012 11:44 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Arrest of girl over Thackeray FB update a clear misuse of Sec 295A
- The arrest of 21-year-old Shaheen Dhada over her Facebook status update questioning the shutdown of Mumbai over Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray‘s death, is a ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 20, 2012 12:00 PM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance
- Govt tweaks enforcement of IT Act after spate of arrests
- The government on Thursday tweaked the law to make it tougher for citizens to be arrested for online comments that are deemed offensive after recent arrests ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 30, 2012 08:27 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship, Information Technology
- Draft nonsense
- Seriously flawed and dodgily drafted provisions in the IT Act provide the state a stick to beat its citizens with. by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 03, 2012 09:08 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance
- Free Speech Online in India under Attack?
- When the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal suggested pre-censorship for a range of popular online platforms and ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 02, 2012 03:03 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Lecture, Event Type
