Boycott MakeMyTrip: Social media mob attacks company after co-founder’s beef ban tweets, uninstalls app: A set of tweets kicked off a row and has already created a lot of noise. Keyur Joshi, the co-founder of MakeMyTrip.com, found himself in a mess yesterday. In 2015, #BoycottSanpdeal trended after Aamir Khan‘s comment about surging intolerance in India.…
The Indian woman’s guide to 4 types of online trolls: Just like dark, wet areas are breeding grounds for fungus, so is the vast anonymity of the internet the perfect breeding ground for trolls. Stuck on their phones or laptops, these bottom dwellers lurk on social media platforms or hang out in the comments sections…
As per an official estimate, there has been an almost 40 percent year-over-year increase in cyber crimes registered in India during the past two-three years. With the aim of eradicating child pornography and keep online trolling in check, the Home Ministry is setting up a new cyber-control hub. The Rs 400-crore state-of-the-art center, Indian Cyber…
Keeping child pornography and online trolling in check will be high on the agenda of a cyber-control hub being set up by the Home Ministry.
The Rs 400-crore state-of-the-art centre, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (IC4), is being set up to tackle all cyber crime including child pornography and online abuse.
When Maneka Gandhi got trolled, it made headlines but online abuse is a nerve-racking daily reality for the city’s vocal women activists, bloggers and college students She has faced water cannons and a vicious police lathi charge. In the summer of 1994, the enemy seemed kosher -in this case the central government trying to push…
There was a sense of deja vu when an instance of extreme insult comedy backfired and landed Tanmay Bhat in the spot once more. A slew of painful barbs lobbed by the stand-up comic and co-founder of AIB at Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar in a two-minute comic video earned him threats from the MNS…
Internet trolls have become a part, an indelible part, of our millennial, tech-savvy lives. Originally known as the mythical, ugly cave-dwelling creature; a ‘troll’ has almost become the modern-equivalent of an omnipresent, hard-to-ignore monster. And nowhere more so than on Twitter.