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Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 27, 2012 last modified Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 13, 2013 — filed under: , ,
The study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
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Blog Entry Indian Netizens Criticize Online Censorship of ‘Jihadi’ Content
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Jan 06, 2015 last modified Feb 10, 2015 02:43 AM — filed under: , ,
The article on online censorship by Subhashish Panigrahi was published in Global Voices on January 6, 2015.
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Indian Porn Ban is Partially Lifted But Sites Remain Blocked
by Pranesh Prakash published Aug 05, 2015 last modified Sep 13, 2015 09:00 AM — filed under: , , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 25, 2015 last modified Mar 25, 2015 04:18 PM — filed under: , , ,
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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File Intermediary Liability & Freedom of Expression — Executive Summary
by Rishabh Dara published Sep 14, 2012 last modified Apr 24, 2016 11:54 AM — filed under: , ,
This document provides a critique of “The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 and proposes an alternate set of Rules.
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Blog Entry Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet 2011
by Rishabh Dara published Apr 10, 2012 last modified Apr 21, 2012 06:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
Intermediaries are widely recognised as essential cogs in the wheel of exercising the right to freedom of expression on the Internet. Most major jurisdictions around the world have introduced legislations for limiting intermediary liability in order to ensure that this wheel does not stop spinning. With the 2008 amendment of the Information Technology Act 2000, India joined the bandwagon and established a ‘notice and takedown’ regime for limiting intermediary liability.
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Blog Entry Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet
by Rishabh Dara published Apr 27, 2012 last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:22 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched upon issues relating to freedom of expression. The results of the paper demonstrate that the ‘Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011’ notified by the Government of India on April 11, 2011 have a chilling effect on free expression.
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Blog Entry Intermediary Liability Resources
by Elonnai Hickok published Mar 31, 2014 last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
We bring you a list of intermediary resources as part of research on internet governance. This blog post will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 22, 2012 last modified Sep 04, 2012 11:46 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Indian government’s efforts to stem a weeklong panic among some ethnic minorities has again put it at odds with Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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