Blocking Websites: An Open and Shut Case?: Today in India, we are beginning to see diverse trends in cyberspace. One of the favourite ones is the repeated blocking of websites. And the latest to be blocked is the Internet Archive — www.archive.org – which was not accessible and even if accessed, displayed this message: “The website has been blocked…
Indian Government censors Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a not-for-profit organisation which has been archiving internet content for more than two decades. It is arguably the most important sites on the internet and as of October last year had amassed an astonishing 510 billion time-stamped web objects which take up a huge 15 petabytes…
Over 650 Social Media URLs Already Blocked in 2017, Compared to Just 10 in 2014: Ahir: The number of social media URLs blocked by the government on the recommendation of an official panel has shown a rising trend with 652 web addresses shut down this year alone compared to just 10 in 2014, official date…
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
A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked during 2013-16 under the section 69A of IT Act, Parliament was informed. “A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 (upto October 30, 2016) under section 69A through the Committee constituted..
As many as 73 websites which were illegally streaming “pirated” videos of cricket matches are set to be banned soon , as a judgment by the Delhi High Court has held that banning of specific URLs was not always an adequate measure to stop piracy. The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and…
A recent report is making rounds of the internet because of its headline itself. According to the report, a popular Indian ISP (Internet Service Provider), Airtel is sniffing and intercepting all unencrypted traffic going upstream from CloudFlare’s India data centers. This is being done irrespective of what ISP the user is on. This is huge…