Iranians are trying to live normally after bombing and protests. Shops and parks are open, but the economy is struggling. People fear more ...

Internet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing rest...

Nepal's recent social media ban, following protests and casualties, highlights a global trend of declining internet freedom as governments,...

There is some progress on the ground with the number of incidents of internet restrictions declining last year. Yet, that cannot compensate...

"There were fewer reported cases of targeted surveillance and online harassment during protests compared with the previous year, and the co...

Leading internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter file information with Lumen database about weblinks or accounts that they have...

Code bars signatories from showing banned content; Amazon feels current rules are adequate.

A 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...

The Supreme Court also upheld laws criminalising defamation which apply to both online and offline speech.

Internet 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 has improved slightly under the Narendra Modi-led government even as censorship and surveillance of the Web incre...

With a cumulative score of 42, India showed an improvement over last year's score of 47 (higher score indicates lower freedom).

Relaxation of restrictions on Internet access and content has helped India register the biggest improvement in Internet freedom this year c...

In almost all parts of the world, influential countries including India that are regarded as "regional models" have fallen in the index.

Freedom House puts India in the "party free" category in the 2012 Internet freedom rankings, below Argentina, South Africa, and Ukraine.

A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the US and other Western governments of using social networking sites like Facebook to s...

US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China's media cur...