Tag: censorship
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Media and Censorship
By Deepti Purwar, Law College Dehradun. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, or authorities. More often than not, there is news of something getting banned somewhere in the world for reasons that seem unreasonable to…
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Censorship of Media in India
By Dewal Nath Tripathi, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi. Censorship of media, which involves the suppression of speech or other public communication, raises issues of freedom of speech, which is nominally protected by the Indian constitution. This plays a very pivotal role in Indian media and we are bound to follow the rules set…
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‘India’s Daughter’- Examining the Effectiveness of a Ban, or Lack Thereof
By Aishwarya Borgohain, University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU. To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. – Michel de Montaigne The release of the BBC documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ by filmmaker Leslee Udwin, and its consequent ban in India, has seen the launch of innumerable debates across social media. These…
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National Laws on Free Speech and the Internet
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” — John Milton But stop and think a while is it all to give full freedom of speech and expression to a person or citizen. Is it correct…