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Blog Entry Free Speech and Civil Defamation
by Gautam Bhatia — published Jun 25, 2014 — last modified Jul 08, 2014 08:31 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Does defamation become a tool in powerful hands to suppress criticism? Gautam Bhatia examines the strict and unrealistic demands of defamation law, and concludes that defamation suits are a weapon to silence dissent and bad press.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Free Speech and Contempt of Court – I: Overview
by Gautam Bhatia — published Jun 08, 2014 — filed under: ,
Gautam Bhatia explores an under-theorised aspect of India's free speech jurisprudence: the contempt power that equips courts to "protect the dignity of the Bench". In this introductory post, he examines jurisprudence from the US and England to inform our analysis of Indian law.
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Blog Entry Free Speech and Contempt of Courts – II: Article 19(1)(a) and Indian Law
by Gautam Bhatia — published Jun 13, 2014 — last modified Jun 16, 2014 05:48 AM — filed under: ,
Gautam Bhatia continues his examination of free speech implications of the law of contempt: the power that equips courts to "protect the dignity of the Bench".
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Blog Entry Free Speech and Public Order
by Gautam Bhatia — published Feb 17, 2016 — last modified Feb 18, 2016 06:23 AM — filed under: ,
In this post, Gautam Bhatia has explained the law on public order as a reasonable restriction to freedom of expression under Article 19(2) of the Constitution of India.
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Blog Entry Free Speech and Source Protection for Journalists
by Gautam Bhatia — published Jun 19, 2014 — last modified Jun 19, 2014 08:10 PM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Gautam Bhatia explores journalistic source protection from the perspective of the right to freedom of speech & expression. In this post, he articulates clearly the centrality of source protection to press freedoms, and surveys the differing legal standards in the US, Europe and India.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Free Speech and Surveillance
by Gautam Bhatia — published Jul 07, 2014 — filed under: , , , , , ,
Gautam Bhatia examines the constitutionality of surveillance by the Indian state.
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Blog Entry Free Speech and the Law on Sedition
by Siddharth Narrain — published Feb 17, 2016 — filed under:
Siddharth Narrain explains how the law in India has addressed sedition.
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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: , , , ,
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.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation
by Bhairav Acharya — published Jul 13, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 10:12 AM — filed under: , , , ,
This note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Internet Policy Observatory of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Freedom debate takes a new course
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 01, 2012 — last modified Jul 22, 2012 04:34 PM — filed under: ,
The focus is now on the dubious roles played by private entities on what goes online, says Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on July 1, 2012.
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