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- Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM
- The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if the government's heart is in the right place. Further, he points out that now is the time to take action on the draconian IT Rules which are before the Parliament.
- Kapil Sibal to sterilise Net but undercover sting shows 6 of 7 websites already trigger-happy to censor under ‘chilling’ IT Act — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 07, 2011 06:02 AM
- The Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has carried out an undercover investigation into the "chilling effects" of new information technology laws on freedom of expression online, with six out of seven major websites removing innocent content online without proper investigation, creating a "private censorship regime".
- IT Inc oppose Sibal’s ‘great’ firewall proposal — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 07, 2011 05:36 AM
- Information Technology and social media experts have questioned telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal’s directive to social media and search engine firms to remove "disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory" user generated content from India and are doubting the cogency of such an exercise.
- Facebook, Google tell India they won’t screen for derogatory content — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 07, 2011 05:25 AM
- In the world’s largest democracy, the government wants Internet sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Google to screen and remove offensive content about religious figures and political leaders as soon as they learn about it. But those companies now say they can’t help.
- FTN: Should social networking sites be censored? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 08, 2011 05:32 AM
- Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Facebook, Google and others seeking to device a screening mechanism. Sunil Abraham was on CNN-IBN from 10.00 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. speaking about freedom of expression in India.
- Govt wants to scrub the Internet clean — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 07, 2011 04:07 AM
- Web advocacy groups, experts say govt’s move to evolve content guidelines amounts to censorship. This article by Surabhi Agarwal & Leslie D’monte was published in Livemint on 7 December 2011. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in this article.
- Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM
- Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
- Debate: Online content row-1 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 07, 2011 11:06 AM
- In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists Chandan Mitra, Editor-in-Chief, 'The Pioneer' & MP, BJP; Sabeer Bhatia, Co-founder, Hotmail; Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society; Ankit Fadia, Ethical Hacker; Suhel Seth, Managing Partner Counselage; Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, Cyber Media and Rajesh Charia, President, Internet Service Providers Association of India discuss the issue if the Government should make clear definition of what is objectionable to internet/social media companies and draw a clear distinction between communally incitable material and political censorship.
- India’s dreams of web censorship — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 26, 2012 06:59 AM
- If you are offended by this post, please contact Kapil Sibal, India’s telecoms and IT minister, and he will make sure it is promptly taken down.
- ‘Any Normal Human Being Would Be Offended’ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 06, 2011 01:11 PM
- The Indian government has asked social media operators to delete information on the Internet that might offend the ‘‘sensibilities’’ of people in India, Kapil Sibal, India’s minister of communications and information technology, said Tuesday, confirming an earlier India Ink report.
- Why this ‘kolaveri di' is India's coming of age — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 05, 2011 10:03 AM
- In the last two weeks, two videos have gone viral on the Internet in India. One, the catchy Tanglish-folksy ‘Why this kolaveri di' video, and two, the flash mob at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in Mumbai where a few hundred Mumbaikars were seen shaking a leg to the Bollywood hit, ‘Rang de basanti'. Nishant Shah, Director-Research has been quoted in this article by Deepa Kurup which was published in the Hindu on 4 December 2011.
- On the net, red herring — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 05, 2011 09:49 AM
- They are often the first clue in cyber crimes.But IP addresses may not be totally foolproof, writes Javed Anwer. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in this article published in the Times of India on 4 December 2011.
- Healing self-inflicted wounds — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Dec 05, 2011 09:10 AM
- A spate of dysfunctional actions and retrograde developments has led to an unimaginable mess for India. Can the damage to growth prospects be undone? Does it need to be? If so, how? Three areas are discussed below.
- An Interview with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 03, 2011 01:26 AM
- Elonnai Hickok interviewed Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada. The full interview is reproduced below.
- Learn it Yourself — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:08 PM
- The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.
- CIS Intervention on Future Work of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 01, 2011 03:30 PM
- The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash intervened during the discussion of future work of the ACE with this comment.
- CIS Hosts Scanned Version of George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 01, 2011 01:31 PM
- Verbindingen/Jonctions (V/J), the bi-annual multidisciplinary festival organised by Constant is taking place on December 1, 2011. Amateur scanning of books often raises a lot of questions, around the issue of copyright. For this V/J13 is scanning George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes. The essay is in public domain in Russia, India and South Africa, but not in Europe and America due to copyright issues. CIS is hosting the scanned pages of the essay in public domain.
- Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 01, 2011 11:59 AM
- The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash responded to a presentation by Prof. Pierre Sirinelli of the École de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 on 'The French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting of December 16, 2009' with this comment.
- What is Dilligaf? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 01, 2011 09:52 AM
- On the web, time moves at the speed of thought: Groups emerge, proliferate and are abandoned as new trends and fads take precedence. Nowhere else is this dramatic flux as apparent as in the language that evolves online. While SMS lingo – like TTYL (Talk To You Later) and LOL (Laughing Out Loud)– has endured and become a part of everyday language, new forms of speech are taking over.
- In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PM
- This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
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