Govt cyber cell to watch social media posts: The Haryana government has decided to ratchet up its cyber policing with a centre for digital investigations that it will inaugurate on Wednesday in Gurgaon. The Digital Investigation Training and Analysis Centre (Ditac) will focus exclusively on social media content, picking up anything it feels is “inflammatory”…
MBA student held over dog meat rumour on WhatsApp: HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police arrested a 22-year-old MBA student for posting a damaging Whatsapp messageagainst a city-based eatery. The offender, V Chandra Mohan, posted that Shah Ghouse restaurant in the city had used dog meat in Biryani. The message went viral and caused enormous financial losses for…
Trolling On Internet: Dangerous Or Depressing?: This is the digital era and we are all connected in this space, making the world smaller than it is. We get to see the other side of people living their lives and get updated on the evolution of political as well as scientific changes happening around us. Read…
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have asked the cable TV operators from Kashmir to stop broadcasting five news channels in Kashmir Valley, a move resented by the operators of these channels who claim that these are all satellite channels and don’t come under the purview of Cable Television Networks (Regulation Act 1995).
Microsoft has announced a new dedicated web form, which will help users report hate speech hosted on any of the company’s consumer services. There’s also going to be a separate web form with request to reconsider/reinstate content, which might have been wrongly tagged as hate speech by someone or taken down by the Microsoft team.…
BJP President Amit Shah said on Sunday nationalism was being questioned in the name of freedom of expression and “propaganda” against nationalism could not be considered as freedom of speech. “It has become a fashion for some people nowadays to question nationalism. This is being done in different places and new theories are being planted.…
When we speak of freedom or azadi, it brings to mind a very different idea of India. Today, we are becoming a country that can deliver eulogies and express opinions, but not initiate action to change the situation. Is that the meaning of freedom? Until we realise this, we cannot be free.
The liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies may challenge Expression is the ability to openly display or communicate one’s ideas about the world to other people. In order to complete the ‘Experience’ of life, we need to have adequate forms of expression. Expression has three…
Amnesty International’s India chapter has said it has not yet received a copy of a FIR or First Information Report in a sedition case filed against it in Bengaluru, but has questioned why “organising an event to defend constitutional values is now being branded ‘anti-India’ and criminalized.” The Karnataka Police had filed the case on…
Actress Ileana D’Cruz says true freedom will come when everyone will be “completely free” to express whatever they want to, without people taking offence over it. Asked what does freedom mean to her, Ileana said: “I would consider I am completely free when I get to say what I want to say without people taking…