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Dear Twitter: Corporate censorship is still #censorship

  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 →

Shall we film the President ? #FOE #Censorship

  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 →

Super Blogger and friend Vidyut Kale gets a take-down notice for exposing corruption #stopitrules

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 →

Judgement for women rights : Can’t divorce wife for pushing condom use #FOE

Rosy Sequeira, TNN | May 4, 2012, Planning when to start a family cannot be treated as cruelty, said the Bombay high court on Thursday, upholding the family court’s dismissal of a man’s divorce plea.   MUMBAI: Planning when to start a familycannot… Continue Reading →

Sri Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith

GAUTAM CHIKERMANE We banned Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and provided the moral justification for a barbaric fatwa on his head by Iran’s then spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. As a result, Rushdie had to take refuge in the UK. Last month,… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release–New list of Enemies of the Internet

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on Eritrea is among the list of “countries under surveillance” Read more on Eritrea on http://en.rsf.org/eritrea-eritrea-12-03-2012,42060.html More information on the full report on 12mars.rsf.org To mark World Day… Continue Reading →

Facebook vs govt: Why we should let judges take on free speech

  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 →

Press freedom stifled in India’s Naxal areas

         13 February 2012 -| By Gayatri Parameswaran It might be the world’s largest democracy but India is struggling to defend its democratic status in the ‘red corridor’ – areas troubled by Naxalite or Maoist insurgency. Expectedly,… Continue Reading →

Documentary on Kashmir secretly screened at Presidency

  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 →

BBC censors “Free Palestine” lyric in on-air performance

Saturday, 02.04.2012, Broadcaster claims that allowing the lyric would have “comprised impartiality” The word “Palestine” was censored in a freestyle performance aired on the 1xtra network in February last year, during which the BBC production staff covered it up with… Continue Reading →

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