A Super blogger, and a super duper friend Vidyut Kale had written a post about the raid on the Belvedere yacht party, where she also exposed a history of financial misdealings by Lt Col (retd) Gautam Dutta and Anju Dutta… Continue Reading →
At the Internet Democracy Project, we believe that the Internet is changing democracy just as irrevocably as it is changing dictatorships. But if that is the case, what does that mean for our struggles and visions for social change in… Continue Reading →
Jillian C. York . Aljazeera Fighting online censorship when legal action fails A new plan for internet filtering could put Pakistan on par with Iran and Saudi Arabia, activists say [EPA] San Francisco, CA – When, in late February, Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority… Continue Reading →
Newsclick, 1 April, 2012 Newsclick is joining other activists and websites in wishing Kapil Sibal a happy April Fool’s Day. Not because he is being foolish in trying to censor the net, but because he is being too clever… Continue Reading →
By- Paul Mutter -The National reports that the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has “issued a fatwa against Twitter, demanding that ‘real Muslims’ avoid it, calling it a ‘platform for trading accusations and for promoting lies’.” The pretext for this… Continue Reading →
HYDERABAD: A guided tour of Unnava Laxmi Narayana’s ‘Malapalli’ and a taste of cynicism through Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry’s ‘Aaru Saara Kathalu’ (Six stories on arrack) marked the second day of the national seminar on law and literature in the city…. Continue Reading →
Firstpost Fear of censorship is probably the gut reaction of most right thinking people to the ongoing judicial case against 21 websites including Facebook, Google and Yahoo. The Delhi High Court demanded progress in advance of a hearing, scheduled… Continue Reading →
Ananya Dutta, 9th FEb 2012, The Hindu In a dark anteroom of the Presidency University canteen here, a handful of students huddled around a screen on Wednesday watching Jashn-e-Azadi, Sanjay Kak‘s 2007 documentary on Kashmir that was not allowed… Continue Reading →
In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian right and was fighting censorship in his “democratic” society. Junge Freiheit had… Continue Reading →
The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them. LONDON: The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence… Continue Reading →
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