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- How ‘private-censorship’ is making online content disappear, quietly — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 19, 2011 05:31 AM
- If only Kapil Sibal knew how successful his ministry has already been in making online content quietly disappear and how pliant Internet companies can be in India when it comes to requests to remove content, thanks in some part to the rules notified by IT ministry in April 2011.
- On Natives, Norms and Knowledge — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 23, 2011 04:40 AM
- Philip Ketzel reviews Ben Wagner's essay "Natives, Norms and Knowledge: How Information Technologies Recalibrate Social & Political Power Relations Communications" published in Book 4: To Connect.
- Digital Native: Twin Manifestations or Co-Located Hybrids — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 23, 2011 04:36 AM
- Samuel Tettner reviews ‘Digital Natives and the Return of the Local Cause’ from Book 1: To Be. The essay is authored by Anat Ben-David.
- The Digital Other — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:07 PM
- Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or Settler.
- Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
- 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 has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
- Did He, Didn’t He? — by Rahul Bhatia — last modified Mar 26, 2012 07:03 AM
- During a recent cyber security event, Gulshan Rai, DG, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)—the man charged with protecting India’s cyberspace—allegedly made startling claims about two organisations that have relentlessly spoken up against draconian new additions to the country’s infotech laws that could limit free speech, laws that Rai’s organisation, CERT-In, is seen to support.
- Technological beasts like Facebook, Orkut, YouTube & Google impossible to control — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 13, 2011 03:25 AM
- They were places that let you be: to chat with buddies, exchange photos and plan parties. The rules of engagement were loose, voyeurism passed off as curiosity, vanity as sharing and gibes as friendly banter.
- Caught in the Web — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 12, 2011 03:32 PM
- Do we need a cyber Big Brother watching us? A look at both sides of the coin.
- Much at stake for tech sector in UID project — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 12, 2011 01:10 PM
- With the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance raising a red flag against the National Identification Authority of India ( NIAI) Bill to grant the UID (or Aadhar) project legal status, the project looks set for a slowdown. That could have broad implications for the tech sector that had laid substantial hope on it, especially when global markets are slowing down.
- Online @ India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 12, 2011 07:48 AM
- I haven't yet heard of anybody in India going on a rampage because somebody in Pakistan started an 'India hate' page. However, I have seen people kill and destroy because they got incited to violence and hatred through offline religious propaganda, cinema and cricket.
- Online gag:Existing rules give little freedom — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 12, 2011 05:42 AM
- Even as the controversy over Kapil Sibal's attempt to get internet giants such as Google and Facebook to prescreen user-generated content to weed out 'offensive' material rages, a yet-to-be-published study by Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society reveals that rules already in place can have "chilling effects on free expression on the internet".
- That’s the unkindest cut, Mr Sibal — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 12, 2011 04:59 AM
- There’s Kolaveri-di on the Internet over Kapil Sibal’s diktat to social media sites to prescreen users’ posts. That diktat goes far beyond the restrictions placed on our freedom of expression by the IT Act. But, says Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, India is not going to be silenced online.
- Internet, social media access should not be blocked: Ban — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 12, 2011 04:16 AM
- Amidst a raging controversy over the federal government’s proposal to monitor content in cyber space, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said access to the Internet and various social media must not be blocked as a way to prevent criticism and public debate.
- India entering the Minority Report age? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 10, 2011 06:40 AM
- 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 image as a bastion of free speech.
- Nirmita receives NIVH Award — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 29, 2011 05:53 AM
- Nirmita Narasimhan received the NIVH Excellence Award from Justice AS Anand (retd), former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped in Dehradun on Saturday, 3 December 2011.
- Google V/s Kapil Sibal — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 09, 2011 11:12 AM
- Mr Kapil Sibal was quoted by the Hindu* today as saying that "he had been left with no choice" because the internet companies "refused to delete incendiary hate-speech."
- India bid to censor Internet draws flak — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 09, 2011 10:36 AM
- 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 image as a bastion of free speech.
- Los internautas indios se oponen a la censura a través de la Red — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 09, 2011 12:25 AM
- La idea del Gobierno indio de censurar los contenidos de internet ha chocado con el rechazo de la empresas del sector y de los internautas, que están usando las redes sociales para ridiculizar al ministro
- Phishing Attacks on the Rise — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 13, 2011 04:15 PM
- It is very difficult to spot a fake website from the real one these days...with all the new technologies to clearly deceive the eyes. However, there are some ways to make the real from the fake ones with the help of two visual cues. Sunil Abraham was on News 9 on December 2, 2011 speaking about two visual cues to distinguish between the fake and the real websites.
- Social media sites refuse Indian censorship request — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 08, 2011 08:26 AM
- The Indian government's proposal to crack down on offensive internet content has sparked anger among the population.
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