Indian Internet Cannot Be Like Chinese Internet Ministry of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar
1 year, 9 months ago

Indian Internet Cannot Be Like Chinese Internet Ministry of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Hindu  

“We have squarely defined three boundary conditions around which we believe everyone should operate on the Indian internet,” Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology said on March 4. ‘No country can dominate semiconductor’ On de-risking global supply chains from over-reliance on Chinese semiconductors, Mr. Chandrasekhar said that no country can do this end-to-end without collaborating with ‘like minded nations’, a view he had expressed in a session on March 3 as well. “There’s a reordering of the semiconductor world,” Mr. Chandrasekhar said, in an apparent reference to the U.S.’s CHIPS Act, and India’s efforts to attract investments in manufacturing high-tech equipment. IT Rules and disinformation Mr. Chandrasekhar dismissed criticism around the Information Technology Rules, 2021 on freedom of expression, arguing that the rules were put in place to ensure accountability for platforms and a “safe and trusted” internet.

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Yearender 2024: From tariff hikes to increasing spam calls, how this year shaped telecom sector in India
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Yearender 2024: From tariff hikes to increasing spam calls, how this year shaped telecom sector in India

India TV News  

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No study done to calculate economic, social impact of internet shutdowns: Minister
4 months, 2 weeks ago

No study done to calculate economic, social impact of internet shutdowns: Minister

Hindustan Times  

The central government has not conducted any assessment to gauge the economic and social impacts of internet shutdowns in India, Union minister of state for communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani informed the Lok Sabha in a written response on Wednesday. In another response to a question by BJP MP Sudheer Gupta and Congress MP Chavan Vasantrao Balwantrao, the minister said that …

India leads in global internet shutdowns for 6th year in a row: Report
7 months, 1 week ago

India leads in global internet shutdowns for 6th year in a row: Report

Hindustan Times  

India logged 116 instances of internet shutdowns in 2023, accounting for 41% of the 283 globally, according to data analysed by Access Now, a not-for profit group that focusses on digital rights. Apart from blocking certain platforms across the country, 13 states in India saw local or statewide internet shutdowns. “Authorities have leveraged internet shutdowns as a blatant tool for …

Measuring internet freedom in India in the last 10 years
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Measuring internet freedom in India in the last 10 years

The Hindu  

In the Freedom Journal series, we look at how freedoms in the political, economic, digital and media landscape have evolved in the last decade. The Supreme Court of India, in the landmark Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India case, reiterated that internet shutdowns violate fundamental rights to freedom of expression, and that shutdowns which last indefinitely are unconstitutional. This, however, …

80% of India’s urban population has access to high-speed Internet: PM Modi
1 year, 1 month ago

80% of India’s urban population has access to high-speed Internet: PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 27 hailed telecom operators’ progress in spreading 5G coverage in urban centres, saying that over 80% of India’s urban population now had access to the high speed technology. “Within a year of 5G launch, about 4 lakh 5G base stations have been built in India,” Mr. Modi said at the seventh India Mobile Congress …

Should Internet shutdowns be used to maintain public order?
1 year, 5 months ago

Should Internet shutdowns be used to maintain public order?

The Hindu  

Over the past few years, the Indian government has increasingly been trying to control law and order by shutting access to the Internet, whether in Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur or Punjab. Radhika Jhalani: Since 2012, the number of shutdowns in India recorded by The Internet Shutdowns Tracker maintained by the Software Freedom Law Center stands at 738. Editorial | Overkill: …

Modi government’s internet blackouts hurt the poor and curbed job opportunities, HRW says
1 year, 6 months ago

Modi government’s internet blackouts hurt the poor and curbed job opportunities, HRW says

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 100 internet shutdowns …

India cuts internet to 27 million as Punjab police hunt Sikh separatist
1 year, 9 months ago

India cuts internet to 27 million as Punjab police hunt Sikh separatist

CNN  

CNN — Indian authorities have blocked internet access for about 27 million people in the state of Punjab for a fourth straight day – one of the country’s most extensive blackouts in recent years – as police search for a Sikh separatist on the run. The internet shutdown – which affects everyone in the northern Indian state – was extended …

India leads world in cutting internet access for 5th year in a row: report
1 year, 9 months ago

India leads world in cutting internet access for 5th year in a row: report

The Hindu  

India imposed by far the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world in 2022, internet advocacy watchdog Access Now said on February 28, as the country topped the list for the fifth successive year. Out of 187 internet shutdowns globally recorded by Access Now, 84 took place in India, including 49 in Kashmir, the New York-based digital rights advocacy …

In 2022, the world saw 187 internet shutdowns – 84 by India alone
1 year, 9 months ago

In 2022, the world saw 187 internet shutdowns – 84 by India alone

Al Jazeera  

More than half of those shutdowns were recorded in Kashmir as India leads the Access Now list for a fifth consecutive year. These were the findings of a report released on Tuesday by digital rights watchdog Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition, which said governments are using internet shutdowns as “weapons of control and shields of impunity”. pic.twitter.com/gQzIUaYFo2 — Access …

India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet
1 year, 10 months ago

India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet

Wired  

Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube channel. The documentary examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots in the West Indian state of Gujarat in 2002, and the government has worked hard to keep Indians from watching it. Screenings at universities have been banned; …

India’s internet policy mustn’t develop Chinese characteristics
2 years, 2 months ago

India’s internet policy mustn’t develop Chinese characteristics

Live Mint  

One of the laws under which India governs its telecom industry dates back to 1885—when Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone was not even a decade old. If the colonial-era Indian Telegraph Act is hopelessly anachronistic, its proposed replacement may also be problematic: The telecom bill wants to retain sweeping powers of state surveillance and apply them even to …

Internet Shutdowns Are Increasing In India: 10 Ways To Survive Without Internet Suddenly
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Internet Shutdowns Are Increasing In India: 10 Ways To Survive Without Internet Suddenly

News 18  

Shutting down mobile internet has become the first step for governments across India whenever there is some kind of violence or even during any major examination. Always carry sufficient cash No matter how many mobile wallets you use or you may believe in completely relying on UPI but when there’s no internet, cash rules. Also, it is a bad idea …

India, China, Russia Missing from 'Future of the Internet' Pledge Inked by US, EU, UK And 32 Other Nations
2 years, 7 months ago

India, China, Russia Missing from 'Future of the Internet' Pledge Inked by US, EU, UK And 32 Other Nations

News 18  

The White House announced on April 28 that the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and 32 other countries have accepted an agreement, the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet”, but India, China, and Russia are notable exclusions. “Partners in this Declaration invite other partners who share this vision to join us in working together, with civil …

'Need to de-risk internet in India to prevent its weaponization by Big-Tech': MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar
2 years, 8 months ago

'Need to de-risk internet in India to prevent its weaponization by Big-Tech': MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Op India  

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, remarked in an interview with The Indian Express that there is a need to rethink local laws in order to de-risk Indian internet and make it harder for Big Tech businesses to be weaponized in any circumstance. Mos IT @Rajeev_GoI tells me & @MathewLiz why India urgently needs to "de-risk" …

Behind the great Indian Internet shutdown
3 years, 3 months ago

Behind the great Indian Internet shutdown

The Hindu  

On January 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of India held that access to information via the Internet is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution. The Court reiterated that the Government’s orders restricting Internet access are subject to review by Courts. India’s Internet restrictions also accounted for more than 70% of the total loss to the global economy in 2020, …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Against The Use Of Free, Open Internet - All You Need To Know
3 years, 5 months ago

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Against The Use Of Free, Open Internet - All You Need To Know

ABP News  

New Delhi: The free and open internet is under threat across the world, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who claims that numerous nations are restricting information flow and that the model is sometimes overlooked. The tech giant CEO, in an extensive conversation with the BBC at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, talked about an array of topics and issues like …

India is trying to build its own internet
3 years, 9 months ago

India is trying to build its own internet

CNN  

CNN Business — While Twitter finds itself in a prolonged standoff with the Indian government over the company’s refusal to take down certain accounts, a senior executive of a very similar Indian social network says the sudden attention on his app has been “overwhelming.” “It feels like … you’ve just been put in the finals of the World Cup suddenly …

The cost of Internet shutdowns
3 years, 10 months ago

The cost of Internet shutdowns

The Hindu  

The movement led by farmers against the Central government’s agricultural laws has become a part of our national and international discourse. A principal concern among these has been the recurrent shutdowns, ordered by the Ministry of Home Affairs, of Internet services around many border areas of NCR since the unruly incidents on January 26. Many parts of Jammu and Kashmir …

Putting the consumer at the centre of Digital India
3 years, 11 months ago

Putting the consumer at the centre of Digital India

Hindustan Times  

The telecom revolution in India is an unparalleled success story. India today has over 500 million active internet users, who consume the highest volume of data in the world and pay the lowest rates in the world. The Supreme Court, in 2019, acknowledged that internet access is integral to the right to freedom of speech and expression while adding that …

India restricted Internet access more than any country, lost $2.8 billion: Global survey
3 years, 11 months ago

India restricted Internet access more than any country, lost $2.8 billion: Global survey

The Hindu  

India is the most economically impacted nation by Internet shutdowns in 2020, a recent global survey has found. The report, titled “Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns in 2020”, has been prepared by Top10VPN, a digital privacy group working to defend digital freedoms through independent reviews and research. According to the report, the total hours of Internet shutdown stood at 27,165, …

Should Indian startups take on global Internet giants? | The Hindu Parley podcast
4 years, 2 months ago

Should Indian startups take on global Internet giants? | The Hindu Parley podcast

The Hindu  

Online payments company Paytm recently announced that it was building a ‘Mini App Store’ which would ‘empower Indian developers’. This move came days after Paytm was removed from Google’s Play Store over apparent violation of its policies. Though it was reinstated later, Paytm and several other Indian Internet startups allege that Google is using its market dominance to arbitrarily enforce …

India must focus on digital infrastructure, data protection laws
4 years, 4 months ago

India must focus on digital infrastructure, data protection laws

Hindustan Times  

India’s public access to the internet commenced 25 years ago, when Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited announced its services. It has been perfecting the capabilities of spying on every person on the planet by spying on its own people, and seeks to influence global public opinion through social media and monopolize almost every supply chain by controlling digital infrastructure. That is …

The Next Billion: 25 Years In, Vernacular India to Give Our Internet a New Path
4 years, 4 months ago

The Next Billion: 25 Years In, Vernacular India to Give Our Internet a New Path

News 18  

As India comes around to celebrate 25 years of the internet, we stand at a crucial juncture of connectivity for the entire country. Growth in internet users India has over one billion mobile phone users in the country – the most recent telecom subscriber report from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India states that India has 1.15 billion mobile phone …

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