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- India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 09:56 AM
- The government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
- Details emerge on government blockade of websites — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 09:51 AM
- Facebook pages, Twitter handles among 300 unique web addresses blocked by ISPs.
- India Bans Mass SMS to Counter Panic — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 07:29 AM
- Last year social networking was credited with helping to organize revolutions across the Middle East and with getting normally apathetic middle-class Indians onto the streets to protest corruption.
- Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM
- 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.
- India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 06:56 AM
- The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that officials said had spread scare-mongering material that threatened national security.
- Criticism mounts over India censorship — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 06:38 AM
- India’s government is facing fierce criticism from privacy groups, political opponents and irate internet users accusing it of an excessive and poorly targeted censorship drive as it seeks to contain social alarm triggered by communal unrest.
- Internet clamp outrage — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 05:13 AM
- The Indian government's attempts to block social media accounts and websites that it blames for spreading panic have been inept and possibly illegal, a top Internet expert said yesterday.
- India Blocks News Website Pages for 'Spreading Fear' over Assam Violence — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 04:53 AM
- Access to more than 300 internet web pages including some published by Telegraph, Times of India and Al-Jazeera blocked.
- Delhi defends Internet blocking — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 04:13 AM
- India on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ethnic tensions.
- India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 03:36 AM
- This is the second post in the 2-part series about the perceived role of social media in the wake of the Assam clashes that spilled across the country and threatened to upset the nation's peace.
- Blocked websites: Where India flawed — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 03:00 AM
- Apart from not giving 48 hours response time, the Indian government has blocked some websites which don't exist or don't have web addresses, says an analyst.
- India threatens action against Twitter for ethnic violence 'rumors' — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 02:52 AM
- India threatened to take action on Thursday against Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions, as leaked documents revealed the government scrambling to censor online material.
- Some ISPs block Wordpress domain across India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 03:16 PM
- Latest reports confirm that Tata Photon has blocked access to the Wordpress.com domain across India, following a government order to block web pages containing offensive content.
- Twitter handles: How and why govt erred and what it can do to be smarter & more effective — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 07, 2012 09:22 AM
- Here's a weekend reading recommendation for the mandarins who run the Government of India: it's a freely downloadable, a 145-page long document called "After the Riots". It is a report by the Riot Communities and Victims Panel, set up by the British prime minister to study reasons for the cause, spread and the damage wreaked by the riots that occurred in towns and cities in England in early August 2011.
- Inde: la tentative de contrôler l'internet est "illégale" — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:50 AM
- Des spécialistes de l'internet ont qualifié vendredi de "complètement illégale" la tentative du gouvernement indien de bloquer des messages et des vidéos soupçonnés d'avoir contribué à attiser de récentes tensions interethniques.
- After Violence in India, a Crackdown Online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:35 AM
- The recent panic that led tens of thousands of Indians to flee their homes has largely subsided, leaving in its wake an uneven government crackdown on the Internet and text-messaging services that top officials blame for circulating the baseless rumors that set off the exodus.
- Regulating the Internet by fiat — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:13 AM
- The Union government’s move to ban or block 310 online entities is worrisome.
- To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 26, 2012 06:12 AM
- Given the disruption to public order caused by the mass exodus of North-Eastern Indians from several cities, the government has had for the first time in many years, a legitimate case to crackdown on Internet intermediaries and their users.
- When #GOIBlocks, twitterati fly off their ‘handles’ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 05:56 AM
- Ever since the news broke mid-week that some genuine Twitter accounts and six spoof accounts were blocked, the social networking platform has been in a tizzy.
- India’s Internet Curbs Under Legal Cloud — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 05:48 AM
- India’s crackdown on the Internet has caused much debate. But was it legal?
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