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Hacktivists deface BSNL website
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 14, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Censorship
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) website, www.bsnl.co.in, was hacked and defaced on Thursday afternoon.
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News & Media
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Ayodhya trending on Twitter sparks censorship concerns
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 12, 2012
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filed under:
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Social Media
On the 20th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, the ShauryaDiwas, Ayodhya and Babri Masjid hashtags were trending on Twitter all day, with almost 2,500 messages sent over 48 hours.
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Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 12, 2012
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last modified
Dec 12, 2012 06:26 AM
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filed under:
Openness
Prof. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
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News & Media
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Meeting of the Network of Internet & Society Centers
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Dec 11, 2012 10:18 AM
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filed under:
Event,
Internet Governance
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University together with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society in Berlin, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, the Center for Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, KEIO University SFC, the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Center for Civic Media, and the NEXA Center for Internet & Society, will host a highly interactive and participatory meeting of representatives from these and other research centers focused on Internet and society issues.
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Internet Governance
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Events
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66A ‘cut & paste job’
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 11, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance
The controversial Section 66A of the Information Technology Act has borrowed words out of context from British and American laws, according to lawyers here who are calling it a “poor cut-and-paste job”.
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Debate on Section 66A rages on
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 10, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance,
Public Accountability
Last week, a reputed BPO in Chennai took down its Facebook page and introduced stricter moderation for posts on its bulletin board.
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Hackathon at Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Dec 10, 2012 07:01 AM
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RHoK banner
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Dec 10, 2012 06:52 AM
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What does it mean to be a digital native?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 10, 2012
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filed under:
Digital Natives
The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won.
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News & Media
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November 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 06, 2013 01:59 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.
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