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Iranians fear sharpening pressure after war and crackdownIranians are trying to live normally after bombing and protests. Shops and parks are open, but the economy is struggling. People fear more ...
Internet freedom declines in US, Germany: studyInternet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing rest...
Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedomNepal's recent social media ban, following protests and casualties, highlights a global trend of declining internet freedom as governments,...
Codify an Internet shutdown protocolThere is some progress on the ground with the number of incidents of internet restrictions declining last year. Yet, that cannot compensate...
Internet Freedom in India improves after 4 years of decline: Freedom House"There were fewer reported cases of targeted surveillance and online harassment during protests compared with the previous year, and the co...
Twitter doc shows govt requests for blocking tweets of some advocacy groups, politiciansLeading internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter file information with Lumen database about weblinks or accounts that they have...
Netflix, Hotstar, Jio, others sign self-censorship codeCode bars signatories from showing banned content; Amazon feels current rules are adequate.
Supreme Court asks Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to prohibit ads on sex-determination testsA citizen has a right to access to internet. We are on a concept of pre-censorship. Court has to be very cautious, a bench led by Justice D...
Internet freedom on the decline in India: ReportThe Supreme Court also upheld laws criminalising defamation which apply to both online and offline speech.
Internet freedom improves in India;in partly free category: reportInternet freedom has "improved" in India in the last one year due to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on the IT Act, a US-based independ...
Internet freedom in India slightly improved in 2015Internet freedom in India has improved slightly under the Narendra Modi-led government even as censorship and surveillance of the Web incre...
Internet freedom improves in India, ranks 30 among 65 countries: ReportWith a cumulative score of 42, India showed an improvement over last year's score of 47 (higher score indicates lower freedom).
India sees biggest improvement in Internet freedomRelaxation of restrictions on Internet access and content has helped India register the biggest improvement in Internet freedom this year c...
India drops to 140th rank in press freedom; lowest since 2002In almost all parts of the world, influential countries including India that are regarded as "regional models" have fallen in the index.
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.
- China group says US uses Facebook to sow unrest
A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the US and other Western governments of using social networking sites like Facebook to s...
- Obama presses Internet freedoms in China
US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China's media cur...