[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

[Achal Prabhala]

fyi

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor 
social
Date: 	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530
From: 	Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>
To: 	Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>



Some updates on this, for anyone interested:

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/any-normal-human-being-would-be-offended/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/facebook-google-tell-india-they-wont-screen-for-derogatory-content/2011/12/06/gIQAUo59YO_blog.html

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/12/06/indias-dreams-of-web-censorship/#axzz1fpN86lWI

http://www.legallyindia.com/201112072434/Regulatory/kapil-sibal-to-sterilise-net-but-cis-sting-shows-6-out-of-7-websites-already-trigger-happy-to-censor-content-under-chilling-it-act

http://www.livemint.com/2011/12/06130244/Govt-wants-to-scrub-the-Intern.html

There's still no clarity on what Kapil Sibal meant/means; whether he's
serious; and the rules of the proposed IT act are still worrying; but at
least the outcry is now entrenched.


On Tuesday 06 December 2011 10:24 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
>  On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Kim Bruning<kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>   wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>>>  On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>>>>  I do not  believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
>>>>  Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
>>>>  themselves, of course! :-)
>>>  They have:
>>>
>>>  http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=2664
>>>
>>>  and Mr Sibal's passing thought of yesterday is probably not going
>>  anywhere.
>>
>>  And hurrah for that!  :-)
>>
>  A cautious hurrah.
>
>  In April this year, the Indian government tried to restrict web content by
>  holding sites and service providers - or 'intermediaries' liable for
>  content.
>  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/technology/28internet.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=india%20online&st=cse
>
>  These new rules will be considered by Parliament in the winter session -
>  and continue to pose a huge threat to online freedom of expression in India.
>
>  Best
>  Bishakha
>  _______________________________________________
>  foundation-l mailing list
>  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>