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- Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?
- Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 19, 2013 11:51 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India limits social media after civil unrest
- Has the Indian government lost its sense of humour? That’s what some in India were asking as word spread that authorities had pressured Twitter into blocking ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:33 PM — Filed under: Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Internet expert Pranesh Prakash criticizes Indian cyber blockades
- The government's attempts to block social media accounts and websites that it blames for spreading panic have been inept and possibly illegal, a top internet ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:58 PM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- New Delhi Expands Curbs on Web Content
- India on Thursday broadened recent efforts to regulate the Internet with moves to block Twitter accounts of some prominent journalists and content from ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 01:16 PM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India seeks a tighter grip on social media
- India, with the world's third largest number of Facebook users, is clamping down on social media after recent posting of inflammatory videos on Web sites. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 03:02 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Govt in line of fire over web censorship
- Social media abuzz with allegations of government gagging free speech in the garb of curbing hate messages. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 03:13 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t help
- Banning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 06:56 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- What lurks beneath the Network
- There is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:10 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Tweets and twits
- The orders issued by the Ministry of Communication and IT to block more than 300 items on the Internet, including Twitter handles, Facebook pages, YouTube ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:45 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Regulating the Internet by fiat
- The Union government’s move to ban or block 310 online entities is worrisome. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:13 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Inde: la tentative de contrôler l'internet est "illégale"
- Des spécialistes de l'internet ont qualifié vendredi de "complètement illégale" la tentative du gouvernement indien de bloquer des messages et des vidéos ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:50 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'?
- This is the second post in the 2-part series about the perceived role of social media in the wake of the Assam clashes that spilled across the country and ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 03:36 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Delhi defends Internet blocking
- India on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 04:13 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Internet clamp outrage
- The Indian government's attempts to block social media accounts and websites that it blames for spreading panic have been inept and possibly illegal, a top ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 05:13 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Criticism mounts over India censorship
- India’s government is facing fierce criticism from privacy groups, political opponents and irate internet users accusing it of an excessive and poorly targeted ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 06:38 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Tata Photon unblocks Wordpress.com
- As of yesterday, the Tata Photon service of the Internet service provider (ISP) Tata Teleservices seems to have lifted the block it had put on the ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 03, 2012 01:53 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic
- The Indian government’s efforts to stem a weeklong panic among some ethnic minorities has again put it at odds with Internet companies like Google, Facebook ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 11:46 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India limits social media after civil unrest
- Indian officials have gone too far in limiting text messages and pressuring local Internet firms as well as Twitter and others to block accounts, critics say. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 11:59 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- DIT's Response to RTI on Website Blocking
- For the first time in India, we have a list of websites that are blocked by order of the Indian government. This data was received from the Department of ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:13 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Featured, Internet Governance, Censorship
- The Present — and Future — Dangers of India's Draconian New Internet Regulations
- The uproar surrounding India's Internet Control Rules makes clear that in the Internet age, as before, the active chilling of freedom of expression by the ... by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- You Have the Right to Remain Silent
- India has a long history of censorship that it justifies in the name of national security. But new laws governing the Internet are unreasonable and — given the ... by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:55 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, human rights, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Comments on the Draft Rules under the Information Technology Act
- The Centre for Internet and Society commissioned an advocate, Ananth Padmanabhan, to produce a comment on the Draft Rules that have been published by the ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 21, 2011 06:13 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Encryption, Intellectual Property Rights, Intermediary Liability, Publications, Censorship
- Primer on the New IT Act
- With this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments. by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Digital Governance, Public Accountability, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- Chilling Effects and Frozen Words
- What if the real danger is not that we lose our freedom of speech and expression but our sense of humour as a nation? Lawrence Liang's op-ed was published in ... by Lawrence Liang — last modified Apr 30, 2012 07:32 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reason
- Don't mind us, we're just censoring your content for you... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 01, 2013 09:04 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Govt goes after porn, makes ISPs ban sites
- The government has decided to put a blanket ban on several websites that allow users to share pornographic content. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 01, 2013 10:11 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Indian surveillance laws & practices far worse than US
- Explosive would be just the word to describe the revelations by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden. by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:09 AM — Filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Censorship, SAFEGUARDS
- Is freedom of expression under threat in digital age?
- With social networking site Facebook boasting of 1 billion members globally and micro-blogging site Twitter claiming millions, opinion was divided on whether ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 17, 2013 06:16 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Web of Sameness
- The social Web has been an ominous space at the start of 2013. It has been awash with horror, pain and grief. The recent gang rape and death of a medical ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 18, 2013 06:17 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
- Govt vs Tweeple: Has clampdown hit free speech?
- Has the Government crossed the line by ordering the blocking of several Twitter accounts, many belonging to prominent journalists? The debate was featured in ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:46 PM — Filed under: Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
