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PTI sues Centre, calls digital media code state’s ‘weapon’ to control media

India’s largest news agency has become the tenth party to challenge the rules, but the Delhi HC refused to grant interim protection to any publisher This is the tenth lawsuit by a news organisation against the Digital Media Code of… Continue Reading →

Twitter officially loses immunity in India

By Vaidehi Gautam The IT Ministry of Indian Government stated in a court filing dated 5th July 2021, for the first time that Twitter no longer has immunity over user-generated content in India. The statement came in light citing the… Continue Reading →

A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction

The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months… Continue Reading →

We Will Not Bow Down, Will Fight Back”- Muslim Women Targeted and ‘Sold’ on a GitHub App

‘Suli deal of the day’ -Cyber crime by- KIVLEEN SAHNI  An anonymous troll shared a link with Kriti (name changed) and when she opened the link her image popped up along with a text above, “Here’s Your Deal Of The… Continue Reading →

Amid Covid-19, Odisha’s Koraput girl helps underprivileged children ‘bridge’ learning gaps

As it was almost a year into the school closure, concern among parents emerged as to how their children will be back to education. The situation of Kaliaguda, a remote village of Kundura block in Odisha’s Koraput district was no… Continue Reading →

Action Alert – Affirmation of Feminist Principles- Sign-on Statement

JUNE 30, 2021 Women, feminist, LGBTIQ+, and trans-led organizations are coming together to reaffirm what we believe are core feminist principles and to amplify the positions that many feminists have historically taken in relation to understanding gender, sex, and sexuality. The affirmation… Continue Reading →

The Unprotected Women Journalists of Pakistan

WHEN WOMEN JOURNALISTS REFUSE THE GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE ADVANCES FROM THOSE IN POSITIONS OF POWER, IT USUALLY LEADS TO A DETRIMENTAL IMPACT ON THEIR CAREERS.  This essay discusses sexual harassment, online harassment, and mentions marital r*pe by Sumaira Ashraf Rajput  Many… Continue Reading →

Caste, Policing and Technology: The Making of Criminality

By- Isheeta Sharma & Vaidehi Gautam Internet Freedom Foundation hosted a session titled ‘Settled Habits, New Tricks: Casteist Policing Meets Big Tech in India’ on June 18 with Ameya Bokil, Avaneendra Khare, Nikita Sonavane, Srujana Bej and Vaishali Janarthanan; chaired… Continue Reading →

“Media misreported my ordeal to defame farmers’ movement”: Tikri sexual-harassment survivor

JATINDER KAUR TUR19 June 2021 “Their only objective is to defame the protest and their sympathy with me or protesting women is totally fake,” a survivor of sexual harassment said of the media houses that reported on her ordeal at… Continue Reading →

Why, despite SC’s Vinod Dua ruling, dissenting journalists won’t be safe

As long as undemocratic laws like sedition remain on statute books they will be misused ByKalpana Sharma10 Jun, 2021 One cheer for the Supreme Court of India. Why only one? Because we still have some way to go before all… Continue Reading →

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