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- India Dismisses Charges of Internet Censorship — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 05:29 AM
- Read, listen and learn English with this story. Double-click on any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary.
- Tweets and twits — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:45 AM
- The orders issued by the Ministry of Communication and IT to block more than 300 items on the Internet, including Twitter handles, Facebook pages, YouTube videos, blogposts, pages of certain websites, and in some cases entire websites, tell a revealing story of a government that has simply not applied its mind to the issue of how to deal with hate speech, both cyber and traditional.
- Blocking Twitter: How Internet Service Providers & telcos were caught between tweets and tall egos — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:36 AM
- Long derided as 'dumb pipes' to the Web, Internet service providers (ISPs) are discovering these days that insult is being increasingly followed up by injury.
- Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM
- I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
- What lurks beneath the Network — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:10 AM
- There is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown Anna Hazare spectacles), there is this increasing belief in the innate possibilities of social media as providing ways by which the world as we know it shall change for the better. Young people are getting on to the streets and demanding their rights to the future.
- How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t help — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 06:56 AM
- Banning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known.
- Internet expert criticizes Indian cyber blockades — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:11 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 Friday.
- India's social media crackdown reveals clumsy govt machinery — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 06:11 AM
- "High-handed" and "reckless" are some of the words used in the media to describe the government's online crackdown.
- Govt in line of fire over web censorship — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 03:13 AM
- Social media abuzz with allegations of government gagging free speech in the garb of curbing hate messages.
- India seeks a tighter grip on social media — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 03:02 AM
- India, with the world's third largest number of Facebook users, is clamping down on social media after recent posting of inflammatory videos on Web sites.
- Twitter users hit back at government ban — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 02:51 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.
- Govt cracks down on Twitter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 25, 2012 02:09 AM
- India’s crackdown on social media platforms for hosting “inflammatory” content — following the violence in Assam and the exodus of northeastern people from several cities — seems to have been a little reckless.
- Views | India’s Net nannies run amok — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 01:50 PM
- To combat hate on the website, India should use the Internet and counter the speech, which might seem hateful.
- NE exodus: List containing 309 blocked URLs leaks online — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 01:37 PM
- Latest reports coming in have confirmed that a list containing 309 URLs, whose ban the government had sought in light of the Assam violence and the subsequent NE exodus, has been leaked online.
- Govt orders blocking of 300 specific URLs including 16 Twitter accounts — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 01:29 PM
- The government stepped up its efforts to stop what it feels is an online campaign of misinformation and rumour mongering in the wake of lower Assam riots and ordered blocking of 16 Twitter accounts, including two belonging to journalists, considered sympathetic to the right in India.
- New Delhi Expands Curbs on Web Content — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 01:16 PM
- India on Thursday broadened recent efforts to regulate the Internet with moves to block Twitter accounts of some prominent journalists and content from mainstream news organizations, sparking a backlash across social media in the country.
- Internet expert Pranesh Prakash criticizes Indian cyber blockades — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:58 PM
- The 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 on Friday.
- Govt vs Tweeple: Has clampdown hit free speech? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:46 PM
- Has the Government crossed the line by ordering the blocking of several Twitter accounts, many belonging to prominent journalists? The debate was featured in NDTV on August 23, 2012.
- India limits social media after civil unrest — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:33 PM
- Has the Indian government lost its sense of humour? That’s what some in India were asking as word spread that authorities had pressured Twitter into blocking several accounts parodying the prime minister after civil unrest that saw dozens of people from northeastern India killed and thousands flee in panic.
- India’s ethnic clashes intensify within social-media maelstrom — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2012 12:25 PM
- It began in mid-July: First came a series of retaliatory killings between ethnic communities in the state of Assam in mid-July. Soon nearly 500,000 people had fled their homes for grim refugee camps. The central government belatedly sent in troops to assist, although that has barely quieted matters. But in the meantime, the violence in remote Assam triggered a bizarre series of knock-on events that has affected the entire country.
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