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Arrests over Facebook posts: Why we’re on a dangerous slide
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 20, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The most bizarre thing about the arrest of Shaheen Dhada and Renu Srinivasan on Monday over a Facebook post that questioned the wisdom of a bandh to mark Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray‘s death is that no laws were actually violated by the post.
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Internet users flay Mumbai girls' arrest over Facebook post
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 20, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The arrest of two girls over their Facebook post on shutdown in Mumbai for Bal Thackeray's funeral on Monday again opened a can of worms with netizens calling the move a "social media hijack by the powerful and the fundamentalists". Social media was abuzz with tweets and posts about the arrest, with most referring to the arrest as yet another move to curb freedom of speech on the Internet.
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Girl's arrest draws flak on social media
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 20, 2012
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last modified
Nov 20, 2012 11:04 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The arrest of a 21-year-old girl by Mumbai police for criticizing the shutting down of the city following the death of Bal Thackeray come under fire from netizens.
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Post and be Damned
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 19, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Your careless comments online could put you in jail, thanks to Section 66A of the Information Technology Act. Kavitha Shanmugam examines a law that some critics say is vague and unconstitutional
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Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 27, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
A recently released global report on the internet freedom rated India 39th in 2012, a slip from two places last year.
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Pitroda seeks to put govt information in public domain
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 27, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Social media
In the first-ever Indian government press conference on Twitter, Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovations, championed the cause of putting government information in the public domain to usher in openness and empowerment.
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Govt plans inter-ministerial panel on Internet policy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
The government may set up an inter-ministerial panel to improve coordination among the various arms of the government on Internet-related issues such as governance, commerce and security, according to a senior government official who didn’t want to be named.
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Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II
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by
Snehashish Ghosh
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published
Sep 25, 2012
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last modified
Sep 27, 2012 10:42 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Social Networking
Snehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”).
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Internet Governance
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Need a standard strategy to deal with Web issues: Chandrasekhar
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 05, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The government has been facing allegations of Internet censorship for over a year now.
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Political war on the web
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 05, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Twitter is not only the ‘people’s voice’. It is also a forum for orchestrated propaganda.Kunal Majumder tracks the BJP-Congress online duel.
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