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Regulating the Internet by fiat
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Union government’s move to ban or block 310 online entities is worrisome.
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To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Aug 26, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
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.
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When #GOIBlocks, twitterati fly off their ‘handles’
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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India’s Internet Curbs Under Legal Cloud
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
India’s crackdown on the Internet has caused much debate. But was it legal?
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India Dismisses Charges of Internet Censorship
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2012
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last modified
Aug 26, 2012 05:29 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Read, listen and learn English with this story. Double-click on any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary.
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Tweets and twits
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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Blocking Twitter: How Internet Service Providers & telcos were caught between tweets and tall egos
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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last modified
Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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What lurks beneath the Network
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
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.
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How ISPs block websites and why it doesn’t help
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Banning websites is ineffective against malicious users as workarounds are easy and well known.
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