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Free Speech Online in India under Attack?: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 17, 2011 — last modified Mar 02, 2012 03:03 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Lecture, Event Type
When the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal suggested pre-censorship for a range of popular online platforms and social networking sites, the suggestion was met by a barrage of criticism, which soon forced him to back down. Yet Sibal’s suggestion is not the only threat to free speech on the Internet in India today. Legislation such as the Intermediary Due Diligence Rules and Cyber Café Rules (also jointly known as the IT Rules) issued in April 2011 is equally dangerous for free speech online.
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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the "Right to Privacy Bill" Poster: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 20, 2011 04:28 AM
The event poster for Privacy Matters — Analyzing the "Right to Privacy Bill"
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How ‘private-censorship’ is making online content disappear, quietly: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 19, 2011
If only Kapil Sibal knew how successful his ministry has already been in making online content quietly disappear and how pliant Internet companies can be in India when it comes to requests to remove content, thanks in some part to the rules notified by IT ministry in April 2011.
Accessibility in the New Telecom Policy 2011: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 24, 2011 — last modified Jan 02, 2012 05:12 AM — filed under: Telecom, Accessibility
Responding to the call for comments on NTP 2011, 27 organisations sent a joint letter requesting that accessibility for persons with disabilities be included specifically within the goals and objectives of the policy. The submission is available here. It deals exclusively with the issue of accessibility in telecommunications for persons with disabilities, which has been left out of NTP 2011. We outline below in some detail the rationale for including accessibility in the NTP.
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Art Slash Activism 3: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 26, 2011 06:04 AM
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Design!publiC - II: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 07, 2011 — last modified Oct 13, 2011 07:00 AM — filed under: Conference, Openness, Event Type
The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with the Center for Knowledge Societies, Venkataramanan Associates, Center for Law and Policy Research, Headstart Foundation, Chaia Innovation Accelerator, MXV Consulting, Mint Newspaper and Confederation of Indian Industry is organising the second edition of Design Public on October 14, 2011 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore. There will be a series of pre-conference research outings on October 13, for which participants may register in advance.
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