by freespeechcollective | Jun 24, 2022 | Commentaries
(Republished from Medianama with permission) The MeitY’s IT Rules can have a chilling effect on free speech online in India and risks the balkanization of the internet itself, say experts By Aarathi Ganesan With additional reporting by Anushka Jain. After being...
by freespeechcollective | Jun 20, 2022 | Arrests - Journalists
Four journalists covering the Agnipath protests in Patna were detained by police after one of them, Amir Hamza, was roughed up and shoved by a police officer. Hamza, a journalist working with a newschannel on Youtube ‘The Activist’, was arrested and is yet...
by freespeechcollective | Jun 19, 2022 | Commentaries
Republished from The Leaflet with permission Hate speech vitiates the very purpose of free speech, which is the free and fearless operation of a human mind that constantly seeks answers and the truth, says Ujjaini Chatterjee Contemporary Indian democracy is at a...