by freespeechcollective | Feb 1, 2024 | Censorship - Academia
Students and faculty from IIT Bombay held a unique protest of the abrupt cancellation of the lecture by linguist scholar Ganesh Devy on Thursday. Here is an account by Shyama Iyer. They read out extracts from his book outside the venue of the meeting. The institute...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 25, 2024 | Censorship - News Media
The Indian government’s over-sensitivity towards adverse global media coverage just found another target: a French journalist with an OCI card! In a surprising move, the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Indian government issued a notice to French journalist...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 12, 2024 | Censorship - Social Media
In a partial victory for journalist Shyam Meera Singh, Justice Jasmeet Singh of the Delhi High Court, in a hearing on Jan 10, 2024, ordered the removal of the video from all social media platforms within 24 hours but permitted him to upload a fresh video with a...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 4, 2024 | Censorship - News Media, Censorship - Social Media
On Thursday, Jan 4, 2024, journalist Shyam Meera Singh faces a court in Delhi to decide whether his Youtube programme “How Gurmeet Ram Rahim fooled his Bhakts?” should be taken down, pending hearing of a civil defamation case filed by the chief of the religious order,...
by freespeechcollective | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentaries
With unabated attacks on users, activists fear the Right to Information (RTI) is more constricted than ever before, its ambit systematically whittled down by laws and policies, says Ashutosh M Shukla. For the empowering RTI Act which celebrated its adulthood this...
