With yet another arrest in Palghar today, the focus seems fixed on the grossly misused provision of the IT Act. Exploring why this section is unconstitutional, how it came to be, the state of the law elsewhere, and how we can move forward.
Not only were two girls arrested for comments one of them made, and the other 'liked', on Facebook about Bal Thackeray, the police did not even take any action against the mob that vandalised the clinic of the uncle of one of the girls.
While we come to grips with the "egregious mistakes" in the websites sought to be "blocked" by the government, here's a preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked.
Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services —making it much easier than getting offline printed speech removed
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