Mumbai: When Bollywood film-maker Kunal Deshmukh set out to make 'Jannat 2', a raunchy tale about arms dealing with plenty of swearing and bare skin, he ended up shooting two versions - one for cinema audiences, and the other for television. Deshmukh was not being extravagant. Like many Indian movie producers and TV broadcasters, he walked a tightrope of catering to the tastes of a rapidly modernising but largely conservative...
03:34 PM, May 30, 2012
The telecast of 'The Dirty Picture' was banned by the government on prime time on Indian television. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Kolkata: As Bengali actress Paoli Dam makes her Bollywood debut in Vikram Bhatt's erotic thriller 'Hate Story', her posters are being painted blue in Kolkata to hide her bare back following orders of the Calcutta High Court. The film's regional distributors Kushagra Arts and cinema hall owners are now covering the bare skin of the Bengali bombshell by colouring it with blue ink. Justice Dipankar Dutta of the High Court...
08:09 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Cairo: An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values. The decision and a similar initiative in parliament has fed into fears by liberal and secular Egyptians that their country is moving down the path to fundamentalist Islam, following a sweeping victory by Islamists in parliamentary elections. The ruling Wednesday came from a lower court and can be appealed....
01:29 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Calling the country's IT rules as "flawed", experts at a seminar Thursday said the right to freedom of expression should also provide protection to the content creators. Speaking at a debate organised by Foundation of Media Professionals (FMP) at the India International Centre, veteran journalist R Jagannathan held "vested political interests" responsible for the attempts to curtail freedom of expression of media and censorship on social media. "The...
12:19 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Beijing: Chinese officials have confiscated more than six million illegal publications during the first two months of this year. In all about 1,442 cases were involved, China's national pornographic and illegal publication office said. The crackdown on pornography and illegal publications has expanded the scope from printed publications to online releases in recent years, it said in a statement. The office has intensified investigation and punishment to some government authorities...
09:45 AM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday quashed criminal proceedings against Microsoft India, one of the 21 websites summoned by a trial court for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Justice Suresh Kait set aside the trial court order for initiating criminal proceedings against the website. The high court also gave complainant Vinay Rai liberty to file a fresh complaint if he finds later any credible piece of evidence against the...
01:50 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is advertising for companies to install an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million Web addresses, alarming free speech activists who fear current censorship could become much more widespread. Internet access for Pakistan's some 20 million Web users is less restricted than in many countries in Asia and the Arab world, though some pornographic sites and those seen as insulting to Islam are blocked. Others...
10:02 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear Yahoo India's petition on Monday seeking for the charges against it to be dropped in the objectionable content case. Yahoo is hoping that it will be granted relief like software giant Microsoft at the hearing. The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, which was summoned along with 20 other websites to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content...
07:41 AM, Mar 05, 2012
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11:54 PM, Feb 06, 2012
London: Internet service providers should do more to prevent the web from playing a role in promoting violent extremism, British lawmakers said in a report published on Monday. The Internet has become an important factor in nurturing the extremist threat, surpassing universities and prisons as a place where dangerous ideas are developed and traded, the lawmakers said. "We remain concerned by the growing support for nonviolent extremism and more extreme...
08:22 AM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will be hearing a civil suit against 22 social networking websites on Monday. The websites were asked to remove all objectionable content and file a reply stating the measures taken to screen uploaded content. A criminal suit is also being heard in the Patiala house court on Monday, which had summoned representatives of websites including that of Google and Facebook. The counsels for the web...
06:46 AM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: In the face of ongoing pressure from different governments on Google to censor content on the many services that the search engine giant operates, Google is taking a middle path. Google's popular blogging platform Blogger has started to redirect blogs to localised domains, also known as country-code top level domain (ccTLD). This means that if you are accessing a blog hosted on Google's Blogger service, it will redirect...
04:05 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Blocking websites carrying offensive content cannot be a solution, and rather a regulatory mechanism should be put in place to remove such material, a cyber security expert said here today. Ankit Fadia, a computer security expert and author, found fault with the idea of some colleges, offices and government organisations blocking some websites, and said putting in place a regulatory mechanism would be a better solution. "Banning or blocking...
12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Get, set, hack! "I was gifted a PC when I was 12. For a year or so, video games fascinated me, till I discovered hacking. All forbidden things attract people, this was my starting point," recalls Ankit Fadia, who hacked the website of Chip magazine when he was 15. He had uploaded his own photo and web address on the magazine's home page. "Later, when I sent the editor an...
10:04 AM, Feb 01, 2012
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