Micro-blogging website Twitter has closed down several accounts after it received complaints that they contained indecent images of children, Sky News reported. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Did the government mess up by trying to block some Twitter handles? Why did it fail and what are the ways people use to get around government curbs? The process being adopted as of now is that the department of telecom sends a list of internet addresses that it considers offensive to companies who provide internet services to us, ISPs. Each ISP, there are many in India, enters...
06:37 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given the microblogging site Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours deadline to remove the objectionable content or face a shutdown in...
12:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government has confirmed that no accounts on the microblogging site Twitter have been blocked so far, sources said on Thursday. They claimed that the Ministry of Home Affairs' request for show cause notice to offensive and provocative handles was still pending with Twitter. In the wake of the mass exodus by Indians from the Northeast, the government had proposed cracking down on hate content on social media...
10:34 AM, Aug 23, 2012
