Assam court issues bailable arrest warrant against Arvind Kejriwal for tweet over Narendra Modi’s education qualification: A court in Diphu has issued a bailable arrest warrant against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case arising out of his tweet on the Prime Minister’s educational qualification. Read More
Have blocked 3,000 porn websites, government tells Lok Sabha: NEW DELHI: The government informed Parliament on Wednesday that it had blocked 3,000 websites which hosted pornographic content. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, the information technology ministry said “most of the child pornographic websites are hosted from outside India”. Read More
Internet shutdowns in India: Why it is bad for Modi’s Digital India: The view on Internet shutdowns in India often gets boxed between voices around free speech vs those around law and order and how every right comes with reasonable restrictions. But with Prime Minister Modi’s grand plans of Digital India, and massive push on…
Congress questions freedom of speech in PM Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’: New Delhi [India], Mar. 26 (ANI): Hitting back at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress on Sunday questioned as to why the young citizens of the country are arrested for executing freedom of speech online or on social media like Facebook. Read More
Undoing the protection of free speech that the 66A judgment brought: If something you say, or a message you send, leads to someone else inciting violence, you could be jailed, if a recommendation from the Law Commission to the government is accepted, and laws are amended. The recommendation of changes from the Law Commission to…
‘Freedom of speech key to democracy’: PATNA: Addressing students at a training programme on ‘Human right awareness’, organised by School of Law and Governance, Central University of South Bihar here on Sunday, national convenor of Lok Samiti K G Anand said freedom of speech and expression is a must to have a healthy democratic process…
Religion, Women, Drugs, Decency, public order, Sovereignty and Integrity, all form the basis for CBFC’s decision with respect to Udta Punjab, Had Anhad and Lipstick under the Burkah films. The disputes and controversies around the said films reflect the subjectivity inherent in CBFC’s assessment and judgment. The fact that the Courts reversed all excisions made…
Delhi: Cyber crooks stealing, morphing social media photos to extort victims: A class-12 student of South Delhi was shocked to find her pornographic video online, the link of which was shared by an anonymous user on chat demanding money to delete it. Preliminary investigation revealed that her picture was copied from a social media site…
An open letter to my friend Tarek Fatah: Hope all is well with you in India. I had noticed when some twitterati tried to enlist your support in condemning me for my last column where I had argued that Narendra Modi was not the great prime minister some believed him to be, you refused to…
Internet Shutdowns Have No Place in Digital India: In 2016, the government shut down Internet 30 times in different parts of India, according to data from the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), a non-profit working on privacy and civil liberties. The organisation has documented Internet shutdowns from 2012 and claims that the government has ordered…