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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 12, 2013 AT 23:59 IST
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Edited At: Jan 12, 2013 02:01 IST
Courtesy Flickr: Some rights reserved by peretzp
Aaron H. Swartz "committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11"
He was 26.
“The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” his attorney, Elliot R. Peters of Kecker and Van Nest, confirmed in an email to The Tech.
Best known as co-founder of the popular internet community website Reddit, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR (for online resource Journal storage), and potentially faced up to 50 years in prison and $4 million dollars in fines. He had pleaded non-guilty. [If you wish to follow-up on that debate, Maria Bustillos provides a very thorough discussion here: Was Aaron Swartz Stealing?] 
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 12, 2013 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Jan 12, 2013 02:01 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 13, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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Edited At: Dec 13, 2012 23:59 IST
This should not surprise anyone. The most searched trending person on Google in India during 2012 was Canadian-born porn-star and now Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, according to the Google Zeitgeist report for India for 2012. The full list:
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 13, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Dec 13, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Nov 30, 2012 AT 03:04 IST
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Edited At: Nov 30, 2012 03:04 IST
In what they called a protest against Sec 66A of the IT Act, AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) today defaced information and broadcasting minister Kapil Sibal's website
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Nov 30, 2012 AT 03:04 IST, Edited At: Nov 30, 2012 03:04 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Nov 01, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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Edited At: Nov 01, 2012 23:59 IST
A small scale industrialist in Puducherry was arrested on the charge of posting "offensive" messages on social media targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram but released on bail on October 30.
Ravi Srinivasan, owning a plastic packaging material factory, was arrested by local Crime Branch wing of CID Police on a recent e-mail complaint by Karti Chidambaram that he had posted 'offensive' message against him on three occasions since 2011 on the micro blogging site Twitter, police said.
On October 20, Mr Srinivasan tweeted from his Twitter account @ravi_the_indian : “got reports that karthick chidambaram has amassed more wealth than vadra.”
He was arrested under Section 66-A of Information Technology Act after registration of a case on the complaint by Karti Chidambaram lodged with the Union Territory's Inspector General of Police, they said.
Police produced 45-year old Ravi before Chief Judicial Magistrate Venkatakrishnan and sought 15 days remand. However, the CJM released him since the offence was bailable.
Significantly, Mr Srinivasan too is an activist of India Against Corruption, just like cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who too was harassed under the same law.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Nov 01, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Nov 01, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Sep 18, 2012 AT 21:02 IST
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Edited At: Sep 18, 2012 21:02 IST
Sunil Abraham in the Deccan Chronicle:
Our policy-makers seem determined to extinguish the privacy of communications and also anonymous/pseudonymous speech through such devices as Know Your Customer (KYC) and data retention requirements for accessing the Internet through cyber-cafes, mobile phones, dial-up or broadband, ban on open wi-fi networks, plans to tie together Aadhaar and NATGRID and Central Monitoring System (CMS) to track a citizen using his/her UID across devices, networks and intermediaries, and requiring real-time interception equipment to be installed at all network and data centres....
An experiment featuring monkeys, bananas and ice-cold water, commonly attributed to the late American psychologist Harry Harlow, explains what’s being attempted by those who attack free speech. First, five monkeys are put in a cage with bananas hanging from the top that can be reached by climbing a ladder. Every time one of the monkeys try to climb the ladder, ice-cold water is thrown on all of them. Soon, the monkeys learn not to climb the ladder.
Then, one of them is replaced with a monkey that has never been drenched with ice-cold water. When the new monkey tries to climb the ladder, the other four monkeys attack it and prevent it from reaching the banana. This is continued till all the original monkeys are replaced with new ones.
When that’s done, although none of the monkeys left in the cage has ever been drenched with ice-cold water, they continue to enforce the regulation on themselves. This is what has happened in China. This is what is being attempted here – to social engineer the Indian netizen.
Read on at the Deccan Chronicle: The five monkeys & ice-cold water
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Sep 18, 2012 AT 21:02 IST, Edited At: Sep 18, 2012 21:02 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Sep 09, 2012 AT 23:47 IST
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Edited At: Sep 09, 2012 23:47 IST
Brief facts of the case
- Aseem Trivedi, a Kanpur-based cartoonist, participated in, and displayed some cartoons at an Anna Hazare Jan Lok Pal rally held in December last year at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai
- Soon thereafter his website cartoonsagainstcorruption, was suspended by web company Big Rock after a notice from the cyber wing of Mumbai police
- Trivedi set up a Facebook page and also put up those cartoons at Google's blogspot.com, knowing Google's anti-censorship stance. The government would clearly find it more difficult to persuade Google to take off these cartoons unlike “Big Rock,” which hosted his suspended site.
- A member of Republican Party of India, Amit Katarnayea filed a complaint against Trivedi
- In January, a case of sedition (under IPC section 124A) was filed against him at the Beed district court.
- In another case before the Bombay HC, Trivedi was charged with insulting national symbols, under Prevention of Insults of National Honour Act, 1971.
- The other charge against him of course was violation of section 66A of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008
- A team of Mumbai Police was sent to Kanpur on August 30 with non-bailable warrants, but by then Trivedi had moved to Delhi from where he contacted the BKC police station who asked him to reach Mumbai on his own
- He surrended on Sept 8 night and was taken into custody.
- Activist Shivam Vij reported: Trivedi has for the moment refused to hire a lawyer and does not intend to apply for bail: "I want to first see how a British-era law like sedition is going to be applied against a cartoonist in free India."
- Today, Sept 9, he was remanded to police custody till September 16 by a local court in Bandra
- Outside the court, a defiant Trivedi said, "If telling the truth makes me a traitor then I am one. Even Mahatma Gandi was called traitor and if I am booked under sedition for doing service to the nation then I will continue to do so."
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Sep 09, 2012 AT 23:47 IST, Edited At: Sep 09, 2012 23:47 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 24, 2012 AT 23:13 IST
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Edited At: Aug 24, 2012 23:13 IST
The PIB today put out a release under the title "Govt Not Targetting Individual Accounts or Websites; does not want Restrictions on Genuine users : Sibal" and provided the following comments attributed to Mr Kapil Sibal, the honourable minister for communication and information technology:
The difficulty is that twitter is a site, which operates from outside India and the server of all such sites are outside the jurisdiction of India.
We are happy that Facebook and Google are cooperating with us and the names of the objectionable sites that we had provided them; they cooperated with us on them and decided to close down those sites. We have also imposed restriction on those sites.
But as far as twitter is concerned, now they have said that they are ready for talks with us.
But the solution to this problem should be a permanent one. That will only happen when we talk to all the stakeholders and form such a mechanism under which any objectionable content is removed.
We can take action but in that case restrictions are also imposed on people who are right on their part. So, we don’t want that to happen.
So, we have provided 28 URL numbers under which objectionable material is being shown. Now the government does not know that who is behind these URL numbers, only twitter and other sites are aware about it.
Later if those URL numbers are innocent, and then the accusations would be thrown at the government.
Actually we don’t have the identities; we have no way to find out the identities. So, the accusations that we are aggressively targeting someone’s account or websites are incorrect.
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A quick response:
Dear Mr Sibal,
Could you please help us understand the following:
So, we have provided 28 URL numbers under which objectionable material is being shown.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 24, 2012 AT 23:13 IST, Edited At: Aug 24, 2012 23:13 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 23, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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Edited At: Aug 23, 2012 23:59 IST
While Congress spokespersons tried to feign surprise when questioned about the blocks on twitter handles of two journalists, and pretended that all was well with the world, the full list of the sites sought to be blocked was finally made public by Joji Thomas Philip of Economic Times today, who put out the four directives by the department of telecom (DoT) to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) between 18 August and 21 August: Government blocks Twitter handles of journalists, right-wing groups - here is the proof
In all, it emerged, that among the many websites, the directives to block Twitter handles were included in the notifications of Aug 18, 19 and 20, none of which provided under which section of which law and for what reason were these sought to be .
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 23, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Aug 23, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 23, 2012 AT 05:35 IST
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Edited At: Aug 23, 2012 07:35 IST
Be very afraid. For your government does not know what to do, even when it comes to what it calls 'national interest'.
It defied biology. It was not dead, but rigor mortis had set in. Yet knees jerked, if only spasmodically. But that too was weeks later...
Something like this is perhaps how one would describe the last few months under UPA government.
Let's leave the horrendous violence in Assam for a minute, and just look at a very partial and random list from the last one month or so:
July 19: Pakistani blogger Faraz Ahmed wrote in the Express Tribune about how hateful messages were being spread in Pakistan by misrepresenting fake photos: Social Media Is Lying to You about Burma’s Muslim ‘Cleansing’
July 20: The very same article was reproduced by the widely read New Age Islam with a clear warning: After Instigating Conflicts With Christians, Jews And Hindus, Do Islamists Now Want Muslims To Fight Buddhists: Social Media Is Lying to You about Burma’s Muslim ‘Cleansing’
The expose is widely discussed on Twitter.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 23, 2012 AT 05:35 IST, Edited At: Aug 23, 2012 07:35 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 26, 2012 AT 23:17 IST
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Edited At: May 26, 2012 23:17 IST
Anonymous - #OpIndia released this YouTube video on May 24:
Petrol prices up, Ridiculous scams, Ignorant media , Corrupt leaders and now Internet Censorship? Sometimes, you need to stand up for a cause. Join the revolution, June 9, 2012. The constitution gives us the right to peaceful protest and so we shall. There is nothing to fear, this protest will be peaceful. We are Anonymous We are Legion We do not forgive We do not forget We were expecting you. Note:This is a peaceful protest, please do not join us if you want to propagate violence/vandalism. See you there :)
Please change your display pictures on fb/twitter to anonymous pics!
And one day may the innocent never suffer and the brave never die, for on that day we will all truly be free, united as one, divided by zero.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us!
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 26, 2012 AT 23:17 IST, Edited At: May 26, 2012 23:17 IST
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