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Statement of Civil Society Members and Groups Participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 07, 2012 08:06 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories for this submission made to the ITU on November 16, 2012.
Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Proposals for the Future ITRs and Related Processes
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 07, 2012 08:00 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories of this submission which was sent in November 2012, in response to the International Telecommunication Union's call for public comments in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai from December 3 to 14, 2012.
Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 05, 2012 07:06 AMWhy is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this?
Comments on the Proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 Concerning Radio Frequency Identification Tags
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Dec 04, 2012 03:32 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. The comments were made in response to Notification GSR 738(E) published in the Gazette of India on October 3, 2012.
Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: Cases
— by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Dec 06, 2012 09:20 AMIn this blog post Snehashish Ghosh summarizes the facts of a few cases where Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000, has been mentioned or discussed.
Transcripts from WCIT-12
— by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Dec 03, 2012 02:00 PMWe are archiving copies of the live-transcripts from the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT-12) which is being held in Dubai from 3–14 December, 2012.
Draft nonsense
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 03, 2012 09:08 AMSeriously flawed and dodgily drafted provisions in the IT Act provide the state a stick to beat its citizens with.
Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 30, 2012 06:33 AMSection 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act criminalizes “causing annoyance or inconvenience” online, among other things. A conviction for such an offence can attract a prison sentence of as many as three years.
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnHWnVLGu9WGeVjTK43G6bbwCjvcOKTnoo on Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act
— by Bhangu — last modified Nov 29, 2012 07:48 AMThanks for giving detailed information, I have a question. If someone has cricket match tickets, and they don't want them and try to sell them [...]
Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 14, 2012 09:51 AMSection 66A of the Information Technology Act, which prescribes 'punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.' is widely held by lawyers and legal academics to be unconstitutional. In this post Pranesh Prakash explores why that section is unconstitutional, how it came to be, the state of the law elsewhere, and how we can move forward.
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