Recently a local court of Gwalior ordered to block 78 webpages, not pages actually the whole website URL's having a negative or questioning content about IIPM. If you can't listen something shut your ears down, why trying to hold my words!!
While exploring print media, found an interesting and curtain-raising article in THE HINDU written by Vasudevan Mukunth and Anuj Srivas. sharing excerpts from the same.
While exploring print media, found an interesting and curtain-raising article in THE HINDU written by Vasudevan Mukunth and Anuj Srivas. sharing excerpts from the same.
The recent case of over 50 websites, containing content against the business school, The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), being blocked shows us that in a system such as ours, it becomes child’s play to put a blanket over views that disagree with our own.
Following the order, the web-pages of media outlets Outlook and The Caravan magazines, Faking News, Kafila, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, Careers360, Firstpost and others had been blocked. Both Outlook (through one of its blogs) and The Caravan magazines have stated that they were not notified before the shutdown was effected.
So what has happened is that the media outlets, bloggers, and other publishers concerned have been quickly and effectively censored without prior notification. And all due to the frustration of one man.
Worse still, the clampdown goes farther than restricting the freedom of expression and seeks to encourage the freedom of misinformation, too. One of the pages blocked was a University Grants Commission (UGC) notice which declared the unrecognised status of IIPM (http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/3604913_English.pdf) under the UGC Act, 1956.
The farce, however, is the role of the Internet Service Providers (ISP). Judicial orders are careful to note that only specific links or micro sites (one part of a website) are to be blocked. Either due to incompetence or ignorance, the ISPs however block entire websites and not just the specific links deemed defamatory. That is how the entire blog section of Outlook ended up being censored. This was despite the fact that only one specific link was deemed defamatory.( copyright 2013 ©The Hindu)