Why is the world's biggest democracy cracking down on Facebook and Google? "65 years since your independence," a new battle for freedom is under way in India -- according to a YouTube video uploaded by an Indian member of Anonymous, the global "hacktivist" movement. With popular websites like Vimeo.com blocked across India by court order, the video calls for action: "Fight for your rights. Fight for India." Over the past several...
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Suit against websites: Facebook says users are owners of content
-PTI US-based Facebook Inc, accused of hosting allegedly objectionable content, today told a court here that the content on its website www.Facebook.Com is owned by its users while it is only an intermediary. "Facebook Inc is an intermediary that acts as a host and permits its users to post their messages, photos, content and other information on www.Facebook.Com. "The content on www.Facebook.Com is owned and controlled by users and Facebook Inc only acts...
More »Hackers protest torrent ban, take down SC, Congress sites
-The Times of India Online hacker group Anonymous targeted websites of the Supreme Court of India and the All India Congress Committee on Thursday to protest Internet censorship. Anonymous launched Operation India with a tweet that said, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck." A YouTube video uploaded on May 15 by user Sen0nymous, titled 'Operation India Engaged', issued a call to...
More »Unpacking India’s Internet Censorship Debate-Shivam Vij
Recent debates on Internet censorship in India have focused to the allegedly free-for-all nature of the internet. Those of us who have argued against internet censorship have been somewhat misrepresented as arguing for absolute freedom whereby the reasonable restrictions laid down in Article 19 (A) of the Constitution of India don’t apply. Nothing could be farther than the truth. It has been said that the internet can be used to incite...
More »Chilling effects and frozen words-Lawrence Liang
While freedom of speech and expression is an individual right, its actualisation often relies on a vast infrastructure of intermediaries. In the offline world, this includes newspapers, television channels, public auditoriums, etc. It is often assumed that the internet has created a more robust public sphere of speech by doing away with many structural barriers to free speech. But the fact of the matter is that even if the internet enables...
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