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India Blocks Facebook, Twitter, Mass Texts in Response to Unrest
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 03, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government has gone on the offensive against Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, demanding hundreds of pages be removed or blocked after political unrest erupted in various parts of the country.
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Tata Photon unblocks Wordpress.com
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 03, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
As of yesterday, the Tata Photon service of the Internet service provider (ISP) Tata Teleservices seems to have lifted the block it had put on the Wordpress.com domain for over a week.
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Watch out for fettered speech
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 02, 2012
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last modified
Sep 02, 2012 09:30 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Social media,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The constant attempts at censorship in the name of national security should give all right-thinking Indians pause.
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India's Internet Jam
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 31, 2012
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last modified
Mar 20, 2014 12:41 PM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
As authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
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Blog
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Indian government defends Internet blocking
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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Details emerge on government blockade of websites
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Facebook pages, Twitter handles among 300 unique web addresses blocked by ISPs.
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India Bans Mass SMS to Counter Panic
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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last modified
Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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