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Indian Government still blocks 20+ websites – Indian Censorship on Internet
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 03, 2015
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Indian Government has blocked 20+ major websites to counter ISIS propaganda. The government has removed blocking of github.com, vimeo.com and other 10+ websites blocked till December 31, 2014.
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Indian government wakes up to risk of Hotmail, Gmail
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 27, 2013
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last modified
Dec 30, 2013 04:24 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the man responsible for drafting the rules still regularly uses Hotmail.
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Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reason
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 27, 2013
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last modified
Jul 01, 2013 09:04 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Don't mind us, we're just censoring your content for you...
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Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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last modified
Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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 attempt to dispel panic among north-easterners fearing attacks from angry Muslims.
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Indian net service providers too play censorship tricks
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 13, 2013
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
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Indian Netizens Criticize Online Censorship of ‘Jihadi’ Content
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 06, 2015
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last modified
Feb 10, 2015 02:43 AM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The article on online censorship by Subhashish Panigrahi was published in Global Voices on January 6, 2015.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi’s digital dream gets bad reception
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 29, 2015
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Internet Governance,
Censorship,
Surveillance
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Silicon Valley’s most powerful chief executives this week how his government “attacked poverty by using the power of networks and mobile phones’’, the entire population of the state of Kashmir remained offline — by order of the state.
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Indian Porn Ban is Partially Lifted But Sites Remain Blocked
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 05, 2015
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last modified
Sep 13, 2015 09:00 AM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect,
Censorship
The Indian government made a quick about-face on its order to block hundreds of pornography websites on Tuesday, partially lifting the ban after political backlash against the moral policing.
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Indian Supreme Court Overturns Law Barring ‘Offensive Messages’ Online
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 25, 2015
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last modified
Mar 25, 2015 04:18 PM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect,
Censorship
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down legislation barring “offensive messages” online, saying it violated constitutional guarantees of free expression.
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Indian surveillance laws & practices far worse than US
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 13, 2013
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 11:09 AM
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filed under:
Surveillance,
Internet Governance,
Censorship,
SAFEGUARDS
Explosive would be just the word to describe the revelations by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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