BY VIDYUT — AAM JANATA In this Make Blog post, Vidyut reflects on the growing censorship in the world and its negative effect on the quality of democracies everywhere. In this light, she also analyses the devastatingly chilling effect the IT Rules can have in India in particular. And asks you to act. Now. Read the original post, also published today, here. More
BY AMRUTA MEHTA In an earlier post, Amruta Mehta wondered whether censorship is the new sterilisation. Since then, she has taken her quest to find out whether censorship is indeed the latest global fad a step further by inquiring about this among friends from around the world. Today, written for Make Blog: a perspective from the Netherlands. Read the original post here. More
BY AMRUTA MEHTA In an earlier post, Amruta Mehta wondered whether censorship is the new sterilisation. Since then, she has taken her quest to find out whether censorship is indeed the latest global fad a step further by inquiring about this among friends from around the world. Today, written for Make Blog: a perspective from Canada. Read the original post, published on 23 March 2012, here. More
BY AMRUTA MEHTA In an earlier post, Amruta Mehta wondered whether censorship is the new sterilisation. Since then, she has taken her quest to find out whether censorship is indeed the latest global fad a step further by inquiring about this among friends from around the world. Today, written for Make Blog: a perspective from Mexico. Read the original post, published on 15 March 2012, here. More
BY INDIAN HOMEMAKER In her second post for Make Blog, Indian Homemaker asks her readers: what is it that you would never blog about? You can find the full text of her post below. However, to read the fascinating and extremely informative discussion, with more than 70 contributions, that followed in the comments section after Indian Homemaker posted this on her own blog, you will need to visit the original, published on 9 March 2012. You can find it here. Recommended. More
BY INDIAN HOMEMAKER In the previous post, Apar Gupta, a litigator, explained the rights and responsibilities that bloggers have under the legal framework in India. In this post, Indian Homemaker provides a blogger’s perspective on the Intermediary Guidelines Rules, or IT Rules, and finds… that they are impossible to follow. Read on to find how the rules affect you as a blogger. You can find the original post, published on 1 March 2012, here. More
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Apar Gupta is a litigator (and blogger!) based in New Delhi. We invited him to join Make Blog Not War as one of the trainers. His brief: to help the bloggers understand the legal framework that governs their activities. In the blog post below, Apar gives an overview of the most important queries that came up during the Make Blog training, and his responses to them. The original post, published on 29 February 2012, can be found here. Essential reading for everyone who blogs.
BY SHOBHA SV — I, ME AND MEDIA In this post for Make Blog Not War, Shobha SV provides a sweeping overview of the Indian government’s attempts to censor the Internet in recent years, and the valiant efforts of business and society alike to resist. You can read the original post, first published on 29 February 2012, here. More
BY RAGHAVENDRA — SILENCE BEFORE THE STORM In his first post for Make Blog Not War, Raghavendra contextualises the event, arguing that the Internet has helped more people to find their voice, and that government censorship is a reaction against that. Read the original post on Raghavendra’s blog, Silence Before the Storm, where it was first published on 27 February 2012. More