Sometimes ambivalent/ignorant. Executive Director at @internetfreedom| Lapsed Technologist/Prod. Mgr.|✍️:https://t.co/S3RAMkmhHo|views=own;RT/like🚫endorsement|
Jan 22, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
There's a lot to consider here, but I want to dwell on this 'transparent when convenient' aspect for just a bit, which cuts across ministries.
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Let's stay with MIB. Since December 2021, they've put out at least 8 press releases about their use of 'emergency powers' under Rule 16.
-Dec 2021 (pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…): 20 YouTube channels, 2 websites.
-Jan 2022 (pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…): 35 Youtube channels, websites.
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Apr 25, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
This goes beyond 50 tweets and Twitter.
- Unsurprisingly, reports are now suggesting that others got orders to block/withhold content too.
-[@medianama] found out because one of the companies disclosed its actions through a "voluntary" mechanism. (1/8)
- Expect this to be the new normal for India's internet speech.
- Companies can choose from 3Cs (cooperation,cooption,confrontation) in dealing with the state.
- In India, platforms have mostly chosen 1 & 2. *crickets chirped* after the IT Rules. (2/8)
Jan 25, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Thread on the Kashmir Whitelist.
Earlier this week @aldebaran14 and I analysed the 153 websites on the whitelist as per the 18th Jan Order and found that ~80 were not 'practically usable'. We wanted to understand how these websites will work/look under this whitelist regime(1/n)
So we setup Chrome with an extension to allow access only to the hostnames listed in the order. Now, there are limitations with this method. We did not test on a 2G network. We could not carry out actual transactions and the assessment of usability is a bit subjective (2/n)
