Bharti Airtel has strongly defended its under-fire Airtel Zero scheme, saying it doesn’t violate the concept of a free Internet and is just an option for customers to access apps for free, with the ultimate aim being to get more people onto the Web. In a letter to chief executives of companies and Airtel employees,…
TRAI on Friday reiterated the plan to have a minimum speed of 2Mbps on broadband for 600 million users in the country by 2020 as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative. The plan also envisages that a speed of 100 mbps will be made available on demand. TRAI’s latest recommendations suggest…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has put out a consultation paper that has brought nearly every internet user in India up in arms against its effort to put restrictions on the internet. The Save The Internet campaign has been launched and only less than a week is left for citizens to register their…
After telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad backed an open Internet three days ago, a note prepared by the Department of Telecom (DoT) for a meeting of the committee on net neutrality on Friday said the concept may help the Digital India programme and also ensure equitable and inclusive development. The committee on net…
Sponsored data or zero-rating offerings as a concept, where data charges resulting from certain types of usage are billed directly to the sponsoring company and not to the customers, is witnessing fanfare globally. As a result, the data used by the app or service is essentially free to customers. Conceptually, it is similar to 800…
Twitter said that it is cracking down on mean, hateful or menacing tweets that cross the red line from free speech into abuse. Twitter is overhauling its safety policy and beefing up the team responsible for enforcing it, along with investing “heavily” in ways to detect and limit the reach of abusive content, general counsel…
Poets and authors cannot use abusive words against people in the name of artistic freedom – more so when the personality in question is Mahatma Gandhi – as every freedom is subject to statutory and constitutional restrictions, the Supreme Court has said. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra made the observation while hearing…
A 71-year-old veteran Chinese journalist, known for her hard-hitting reports on elite politics, was on Friday sentenced to seven years in jail for revealing state secrets, in what is seen as a crackdown on government critics. Gao Yu, one of China’s most prominent journalists well known for her articles critical of government leaders, was handed…
The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict in a very old case pertaining to poetic freedom. The subject is most intriguing as it involves very large principles governing freedom of speech. The obiter dicta point the way to which direction the judges intended to take. As the case also involves the underlying principles of Article…
India celebrated the recent ruling of Supreme Court to upheld the freedom of expression on internet. But, a pertinent question arises here whether the unrestrained freedom can be construed as a license for a section of male to bully girls as well as women by posting obscene pictures along with vulgar comments in the social…