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So Much to Lose
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 02, 2012
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last modified
Dec 07, 2012 04:39 PM
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Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have been a witness to the maelstrom of events that accompanied the death of the political leader Bal Thackeray.
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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last modified
Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
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Spy in the Web
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 22, 2011
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last modified
Mar 26, 2012 06:38 AM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
The government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy.
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Submission by the Centre for Internet and Society on Revisions to ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior
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by
Vidushi Marda
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published
Jun 29, 2016
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 06:07 AM
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Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
ICANN,
IANA Transition,
Homepage
Prepared by Vidushi Marda, with inputs from Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan and Sunil Abraham.
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Tata Photon unblocks Wordpress.com
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 03, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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 Wordpress.com domain for over a week.
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The ICANN-US DOC 'Affirmation of Commitments' - A Step Forward?
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by
Anja Kovacs
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published
Oct 06, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:16 AM
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Public Accountability,
ICANN,
internet governance
On 30 September 2009, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) signed an Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) with the US Government's Department of Commerce. For those of us who are concerned that the Internet should serve the global public good, is the new arrangement a step forward? An assessment.
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The Last Word: Is there a need to review Information Technology Act?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 21, 2012
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last modified
Nov 21, 2012 12:10 PM
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IT Act,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Video,
Censorship
Does the high-handed arrest of two young girls mean it's time to review and revise the IT Act?
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The Quixotic Fight to Clean up the Web
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jan 23, 2012
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last modified
Jan 26, 2012 08:53 PM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Information Technology
The ongoing attempt to pre-screen online content won’t change anything. It will only drive netizens into the arms of criminals, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 9, Issue 04, Dated 28 Jan 2012.
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The Web of Our Strife
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 04, 2012
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last modified
Jun 04, 2012 05:45 AM
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Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
At the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, India proposed the formation of a Committee on Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) to address what it sees as a policy vacuum in internet governance.
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Thousands go online against 66A
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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filed under:
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship,
Information Technology
An online petition aimed at amending section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act and re-examining internet laws has garnered 3,000 signatures since it began on Tuesday — two days before Kapil Sibal, telecom and IT minister, chairs a meeting with the cyber regulation advisory committee.
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