Internet Governance Blog
SMS Block as Threat to Free Speech
— by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Sep 02, 2012 09:02 AMIf you could text just one or two people in a day, who would you choose? Many of us have had to make this choice thanks to the order limiting us to five texts a day. Short Message Service (SMS) is not used primarily to send staccato messages like the telegraph was.
India's Internet Jam
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 20, 2014 12:41 PMAs authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 26, 2012 06:12 AMGiven 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.
Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AMI 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 AMThere 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.
Censoring the Internet: A brief manual
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 24, 2012 09:39 AMBlocking websites on the Internet should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the government of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice.
Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2012 11:52 AMPranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
The Perils of 'Hactivism'
— by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Aug 20, 2012 09:58 AMCivil disobedience includes accepting the penalty for breaking the law. Untraceable hackers are far removed from this ethic.
Open letter to Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 04, 2012 08:28 AMLast month I wrote an open letter to Hillary Clinton. It was based on a presentation I that I made during a panel discussion at a Google sponsored conference titled Internet at Liberty 2012 in Washington DC on May 24, 2012.
Constitutional Analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules, 2011
— by Ujwala Uppaluri — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:44 AMUjwala Uppaluri provides a constitutional analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules notified in April 2011, and examines its compatibility with Articles 14, 19, 21 of the Constitution of India.
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