We have seen a raging controversy around the government decision over the last week to ten days to block a few hundred web pages and some Twitter handles. After many protests, the government insisted that it had only clamped down… Continue Reading →
25 Aug, 2012, 5:44 pm IST | by tech2 News Staff | Latest reports confirm that Tata Photon has blocked access to the WordPress.com domain across India, following a government order to block web pages containing offensive content. Apparently, the ISP has resorted… Continue Reading →
“The photograph of Salvador Dali and Phillipe Halsman, “In voluptate mors” (which was iself inspired by Salvador Dali’s gouache Female Bodies as a Skull painting), was removed by FB as somebody had reported the image on grounds of Nudity. My first… Continue Reading →
YANGON | Mon Aug 6, 2012 6:51pm IST (Reuters) – Myanmar‘s government has agreed to lift suspensions on two weekly journals within two weeks, their editors said on Monday, just days after rare protests by journalists in two cities to demand more… Continue Reading →
Sanjeev Shivadekar, TNN | Aug 3, 2012, 11.59PM IST Instigating, financing or even participating in an illegal strike could land a person in jail in Maharashtra. MUMBAI: Instigating, financing or even participating in an illegal strike could land a person in… Continue Reading →
MUMBAI: An NCP MLC has succeeded in goading the city’s mayor into playing the moral police. The latest victim is the film Jism 2, starring Sunny Leone, whose posters will now have to be removed from all BEST buses…. Continue Reading →
July 31, 2012 By Andrew Couts Opinion: Twitter’s apparent willingness to censor a user to protect its corporate friends damages the company’s image as a champion for free speech. UPDATE: Guy Adams’s Twitter account has been restored, as of… Continue Reading →
By Associated Press, YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s censors have suspended two weekly magazines indefinitely in the latest confrontation between the government and the newly aggressive press. The Press Scrutiny Board informed Voice Weekly and Envoy editors Tuesday that… Continue Reading →
Why doesn’t India make prez movies? Priyanka Dasgupta, TNN (Still from Politics of Love ) India doesn’t have a Presidential form of government. Censor Board of Film Certification will not clear a film about our President that’s even remotely… Continue Reading →
© 2024 Kractivism — Powered by WordPress
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑
Scented Handwash: BJP supporters struggle for Freedom of Speech #FOE
Vidyut, Aug 25,2012 I have lampooned our government often over censorship and it is a Congress Government [each word is one among dozens of links on this blog criticizing our government on regimenting free speech]. This is because it is… Continue Reading →