You are here: Home

Did you not find what you were looking for? Try the Advanced Search to refine your search.

Search results 441 items matching your search terms.

Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

India bid to censor Internet draws flak
Indian government efforts to block offensive material from the Internet have prompted a storm of online ridicule along with warnings of the risk to India's ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 09, 2011 10:36 AM — Filed under: ,
Regulating Sexist Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship
This paper is part of a series under IT for Change’s project, Recognize, Resist, Remedy: Combating Sexist Hate Speech Online. The series, titled Rethinking ... by Amber Sinha last modified May 31, 2021 09:56 AM — Filed under: , ,
World Narrow Web
Censorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Mar 27, 2012 04:00 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Freedom debate takes a new course
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. by Prasad Krishna last modified Jul 22, 2012 04:34 PM — Filed under: ,
Speak Easy: Citizenship, Freedom of Expression and Online Governance
The event organised by the YP Foundation, Youth Ki Awaaz, Change.Org and RTI Anonymous was held at the American Centre in Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Connaught ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Aug 01, 2012 04:56 AM — Filed under: ,
India internet: clean-up or censorship?
Is India going the way of China? Not when it comes to development indicators. Or enhanced infrastructure. Or economic power. But in another category at which ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 16, 2012 11:17 AM — Filed under: , ,
Janhit Manch & Ors. v. The Union of India
The petition sought a blanket ban on pornographic websites. The NGO had argued that websites displaying sexually explicit content had an adverse influence, ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 18, 2012 11:57 AM — Filed under: , ,
Spy in the Web
The government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy. by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 26, 2012 06:38 AM — Filed under: , ,
Public Debate on 'Differential Pricing': Series 2
The Centre for Internet and Society, in association with ICRIER and the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, is pleased to announce “A ... by Vidushi Marda last modified Jan 28, 2016 01:51 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Public Debate on 'Differential Pricing': Series 3
The Centre for Internet and Society, in association with ICRIER and the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, is pleased to announce “A ... by Vidushi Marda last modified Jan 28, 2016 01:53 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price
Who could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 30, 2016 11:32 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Facebook's Fall from Grace: Arab Spring to Indian Winter
Facebook’s Free Basics has been permanently banned in India! The Indian telecom regulator, TRAI has issued the world’s most stringent net neutrality ... by Sunil Abraham last modified Feb 11, 2016 03:51 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Facebook’s Free Basics hits snag in India
Indian regulators have dealt a major blow to Facebook’s controversial Free Basics online access plan by forbidding so-called differential pricing by internet ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 15, 2016 02:33 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Internet Freedom
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. by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda last modified Feb 15, 2016 02:51 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Free Speech and the Law on Sedition
Siddharth Narrain explains how the law in India has addressed sedition. by Siddharth Narrain last modified Feb 17, 2016 09:13 AM — Filed under:
Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship Plan
India has the world's largest democracy, and one of the most rambunctious. Millions of its young people are cutting edge when it comes to high-tech. Yet the ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 22, 2011 05:30 AM — Filed under: , ,
Karthikeyan R v Union of India
The court refused to direct the government to take proactive steps to curb access to Internet pornography stating that such matters require case-by-case ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 18, 2012 11:51 AM — Filed under: , ,
Facebook, Google face censorship in India
Religious leaders in India are on a collision course with social media websites including Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Two Indian courts recently asked these ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 09, 2012 05:10 AM — Filed under: ,
Is India Ignoring its own Internet Protections?
India’s information technology law of 2008 limits the liability of Internet companies for material posted on their Web sites by users, including anything ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 17, 2012 05:33 AM — Filed under: , ,
Internet Freedom Fellows Program Emphasizes Defense of Fundamental Freedoms Online
At the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United States has consistently placed special emphasis on the protection and promotion of the freedoms of expression, ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jul 02, 2012 06:47 AM — Filed under: ,
Global Networks, Individual Freedoms: A Peer Forum on Internet Freedom and Human Rights
In Connection with the 2012 Internet Freedom Fellows Program, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva is pleased to invite Pranesh Prakash to ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 28, 2012 09:12 AM — Filed under: ,
Clear and Present Danger: Attempts to Change Internet Governance and Implications for Press Freedom
The event was organised by National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2012. Emma Llansó, Rebecca MacKinnon, Emin Milli, Susan Morgan and ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 29, 2012 03:59 AM — Filed under: ,
Parliament panel blasts govt over ambiguous internet laws
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation has come out with a report in which it has lambasted the government and asked it to make ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 28, 2013 08:37 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Department of Telecommunications Order u/s. 69A IT Act Blocking 32 URLS (2014-12-17, compressed version)
On December 17, 2014, the Dept. of Telecommunications blocked 32 URLs (as it was ordered to do so by the by Dept. of Electronics & IT — specifically the ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Dec 31, 2014 02:48 PM — Filed under: , ,
Department of Telecommunications Order u/s. 69A IT Act Blocking 32 URLS (2014-12-17, plaintext version)
by Pranesh Prakash last modified Dec 31, 2014 03:21 PM — Filed under: , ,
Internet users fume as govt blocks 32 sites
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has ordered Internet service providers to block 32 websites, in cluding popular video-sharing plat forms such as ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 02, 2015 01:46 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Centre blocks 32 websites for security reasons, restores some later
The Centre on Wednesday asked Internet Service Providers (ISP) to block 32 websites citing national security concerns, especially from terror group ISIS. by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 02, 2015 02:13 PM — Filed under: , , ,
DoT Reportedly Orders Blocking of 32 Websites Including GitHub, Archive.org, SourceForge
Many users on Twitter are claiming that several websites, including many software development resources such as GitHub and SourceForge, along with research ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 02, 2015 02:51 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin Among Sites Blocked In India For 'Anti-India' Content From ISIS
The Indian government has convinced ISPs to block dozens of popular websites accused of hosting “anti-India” content posted by members of the Islamic State ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 02, 2015 04:43 PM — Filed under: , , ,