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Censorship

The blocking of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ underscores India’s draconian censorship of the internet

Vineet Bhalla
· Aug 23, 2023 · 09:00 am
‘A censorship tool in disguise’: How the Data Protection Bill will hurt journalists

Vineet Bhalla
· Aug 12, 2023 · 06:30 am
How colonial laws of censorship are still used by governments for moral policing

Subhashish Bhadra
· Apr 29, 2023 · 12:01 pm
As social media platforms around the world surrender to state diktats, what can users do?

Mishi Choudhary Eben Moglen
· Mar 11, 2023 · 09:00 am
Roald Dahl row: Why do we assume children can’t think for themselves? Let them read, ask questions

Smitha Nair
· Feb 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Is censoring Roald Dahl on moral grounds a good idea?

Michelle Smith, The Conversation
· Feb 23, 2023 · 03:30 pm
How British censorship laws ended up creating a rich archive of Black history

Kate Dossett, The Conversation
· Jan 23, 2023 · 11:30 pm
Explained: What emergency powers has India used to block links of BBC’s Gujarat riots documentary?

Nachiket Deuskar
· Jan 23, 2023 · 06:30 am
Full video: Amitabh Bachchan invokes Satyajit Ray to reflect on current times and censorship

Scroll Staff
· Dec 16, 2022 · 01:29 pm
Not just social media, the new IT Act amendment will also affect news websites. Here’s how

Karnika Kohli
· Nov 03, 2022 · 09:00 am
When Jawaharlal Nehru read ‘Lolita’ to decide whether an ‘obscene’ book should be allowed in India

Shubhneet Kaushik
· Jun 04, 2022 · 12:30 pm
Margaret Atwood’s flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

Charles Barbour, The Conversation
· Jun 01, 2022 · 11:30 am
Marathi actor sent to police custody till May 18 for social media post about Sharad Pawar

Scroll Staff
· May 15, 2022 · 05:20 pm
Elon Musk explains what he means by ‘free speech’ after Twitter takeover

Scroll Staff
· Apr 27, 2022 · 02:50 pm
View from ‘Dawn’: Imran Khan’s ‘black law’ to stifle the media has mercifully been abandoned

Dawn.com
· Apr 24, 2022 · 07:30 pm
TIFR withdraws notice asking staff not to post ‘anti-government’ content on social media

Scroll Staff
· Apr 19, 2022 · 12:21 pm
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research says notice about ‘anti-government’ posts was misinterpreted

Scroll Staff
· Apr 16, 2022 · 05:20 pm
Explainer: How the Centre exercises stringent control over Indian television news channels

Umang Poddar
· Feb 02, 2022 · 01:55 pm
Digital authoritarianism: Kazakhstan is the latest country to use internet shutdown as a weapon

Margaret Hu, The Conversation
· Jan 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm
Imran Khan’s government wants to be Zia 2.0. The ban on hand-holding and hugging on TV is more proof

Usama Khilji, Dawn.com
· Nov 23, 2021 · 01:30 pm