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Indian Government still blocks 20+ websites – Indian Censorship on Internet
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by
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 police set up lab to monitor social media
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 19, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Mumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
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Indian politicians yet to tap voters online: CIS’s Abraham
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 23, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Sunil Abraham talks about the role online media will play in forthcoming elections and the behaviour of online readers of news.
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Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 06, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
India has banned various large-scale torrent sites for a long time — this is old news. But under a new federal policy in India, one can be jailed for three years and fined 300,000 Indian Rupees (~US $4464) for downloading content on any of these blocked websites.
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International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice (IV)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 05, 2013
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last modified
Dec 26, 2013 09:05 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Building on the workshop in Dagstuhl in June-July 2011 (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice), Beijing (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice II), and Athens (International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice III) that set the stage for discussions on cryptography among a group of key researchers from Europe, Asia, and North America, the one day workshop in Bangalore, following AsiaCrypt 2013 will again bring together internationally recognized scientists to discuss direction and development in theoretical and applied cryptography and surrounding societal issues.
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Internet Freedom
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by
Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
The modern medium of the web is an open-sourced, democratic world in which equality is an ideal, which is why what is most important is Internet freedom.
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Internet users fume as govt blocks 32 sites
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 02, 2015
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has ordered Internet service providers to block 32 websites, in cluding popular video-sharing plat forms such as Dailymotion and Vimeo, reportedly over concerns that they are being misused by Islamic State jihadists.
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Interoperability and Portability as a Lever to Enhance User Choice and Privacy in Messaging Platforms
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by
Kamesh Shekar
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Jul 06, 2021 11:37 AM
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filed under:
Messaging,
Interoperability,
Social Media
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Interview with Pranesh Prakash
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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,
Internet Governance,
Video,
Censorship,
Information Technology
Pranesh Prakash of the Centre for Internet and Society talks to Mint’s Surabhi Agarwal about the controversial Section 66A of the IT Act and the government’s decision to tweak it.
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