Big Donald Trump order on AI, cybersecurity coming soon as White House begins crackdown on deepfakesDonald Trump on AI: This comes as the United States on Tuesday began enforcing a law requiring tech platforms to remove deepfakes and other...
20 May, 2026, 06.51 AM IST
EU to widen Iran sanctions over Hormuz blockadeThe European Union plans to broaden its Iran sanctions. New measures will target individuals and groups responsible for blocking the Strait...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.39 AM IST
China's state media turns to social media, AI to tell its story - often mock USIn a five-minute AI-generated animation modelled after classic martial arts movies, China's state media frames an allegory for the war in I...
11 Apr, 2026, 08.45 PM IST
Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visaUS tech firms face new hurdles for H-1B visa applicants as the Trump administration is scrutinizing resumes and online profiles for any inv...
04 Dec, 2025, 09.50 AM IST
Trump signs executive order that he says will protect free speechPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at restoring free speech by ending federal censorship. Trump and Republicans claim t...
21 Jan, 2025, 08.10 AM IST
Elon Musk addresses his harsh remarks at Cannes Lions Festival; Here's what he saidElon Musk clarified his controversial comments on free speech at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, addressing advertiser concerns abou...
22 Jun, 2024, 12.22 PM IST
What the university presidents got right and wrong about antisemitic speechIf Harvard, MIT and Penn had chosen to model their policies after the First Amendment, many of the presidents' controversial answers would ...
11 Dec, 2023, 03.32 PM IST
How a Kolkata-born professor secured a landmark victory against US governmentProfessor Jay Bhattacharya, along with other scientists, has achieved a legal victory in a free speech censorship case against the US gover...
13 Sep, 2023, 05.24 PM IST
Social media must keep social contractThe media operates on self-censorship, and the law steps in only when this fails. It also looks into bias masquerading as self-censorship. ...
06 Jul, 2022, 11.43 PM IST
Anand Mahindra pitches for higher degree of participation on TwitterAmid a debate over freedom of speech with Elon Musk promising less regulation of opinions and speech after he takes over Twitter, Mahindra ...
27 Apr, 2022, 04.27 PM IST
Elon Musk explains what he meant by ‘free speech’ for TwitterElon Musk stated that free expression must be consistent with the law, and that he opposes censorship that goes beyond the law.
27 Apr, 2022, 01.26 PM IST
Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned contentRussia has already placed a punitive slowdown on Twitter for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in Western tech ...
25 May, 2021, 06.49 PM IST
View: Free media have the right to exclude content; that is not censorshipThe European Union (EU) has been at the fore of regulating US internet giants.
12 Jan, 2021, 10.59 PM IST
Technology does not permit press censorship, no danger to free speech: Arun JaitleyMedia's credibility will be its own maker and if misused, it can also be its own breaker, he said.
16 Nov, 2018, 08.04 PM IST
Online censorship: How government should approach regulation of speechIf the government’s answer to ‘bad’ online content is more censorship, more surveillance and more regulation, then they are doing it wrong.
02 Dec, 2012, 09.12 AM IST
India ranks 131st in press freedom index; Internet 'partly free'Freedom House puts India in the "party free" category in the 2012 Internet freedom rankings, below Argentina, South Africa, and Ukraine.
21 Nov, 2012, 02.27 AM IST
Internet censorship: The web and free speechDebate on this is not new in the real world though; the meaning of freedom of action and of speech is constantly being redefined.
16 Dec, 2011, 10.00 AM IST