Internet Governance
List of Blocked Escort Service Websites
On April 20, 2016, DNA carried a report on a PIL seeking action against advertisements for prostitution in newspapers and...
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Internet Governance
The Legal Validity of Internet Bans: Part I
In recent months, there has been a spree of bans on access to Internet services in India states, for different...
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Internet Governance
The Legal Validity of Internet Bans: Part II
As we saw earlier, the Gujarat High Court held that Section 144, CrPC empowers the State apparatus to order blocking...
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Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled Public Sphere
Introduction The internet is widely thought to be unprecedented and radically different from the media which preceded it. Interestingly, the...
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Internet Governance
DeitY says 143 URLs have been Blocked in 2015; Procedure for Blocking Content Remains Opaque and in Urgent Need of Transparency Measures
In February 2015, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) requested the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under...
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