Apar GuptaThe Karnataka High Court judgment on the petition against government’s blocking orders are not only against the social media giant, but the democratic rights of assembly, speech and protest.
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Ministry of Truth
The rules were framed without the extensive consultation promised by the government.
India’s juggernaut of censorship
There has been a gradual and inexorable expansion of IT Rules into the ‘everything law’, leading one to ask where free debate and expression is in a digital and democratic India.
Dangerous new proposals may mean the end of the open internet for Indians
A governance failure on Internet Shutdowns in India
Secrecy Abounds the Creation of India’s Internet Shutdown Regulations. Why?
In defence of liars
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes’s notice to Youtube
The cost of internet shutdowns
Government-mandated interruptions are rising. Economic and social costs are huge.
Section 144 and the power to impose an online curfew
Last month, the Patel community’s demand for job quotas dramatically caught the nation’s attention. Their agitation in Gujarat reminded of the dangers of Mandal politics, in which castes and communities stir and shake the state apparatus to secure reservations in education and government jobs.