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Free Speech Tracker

List of Incidents in -> -> 2017

Re-tweets can land you in a defamation suit: Supreme Court

Re-tweets can be defamatory, SC says in AAP neta's case

Sanjay Nirupam seeks action against BJP leader for Rahul Gandhi tweet

Govt lodges complaint with censor board about movie on clinical trials

Route 67: How the IT Act’s Section on Obscenity is Being Misused to Violate Digital Freedom

Social media's new normal: organised hate trolls

Twitter’s bot problem: An insider’s account on how it works in India

Two Arrested in Bengal Over Facebook Post Slamming Traffic Restrictions

18-year-old spends 42 days in UP jail for making light of Ganga on Facebook posts

Prescription post Section 66A: ‘Change law to punish hate speech online’

On Centre’s request, Twitter blocks accounts, tweets over Kashmir content

Govt looking to modify IPC sections instead of bringng back Section 66A: report

Case registered against Tejashwi Yadav over tweet allegedly disrespecting ‘Vande Mataram’

Update: Internet Archive contacted Indian govt regarding the block, but got no response

India bans Wayback Machine, makes it harder to catch liars on the web

Govt rules out action: TV channel categorisation, telecast time & content code

Vijay’s fans troll journalist Dhanya Rajendran. These stars faced their wrath too

SC hands off junked speech law

Social media and violence

Social media behind communal flare-ups

DNA Exclusive: New bill lets govt take over Censor Board

Social media sites blocked in Kashmir Valley ahead of Burhan Wani's death anniversary

Social media slurs on SC/ST punishable: HC

Kashmir unrest: Internet services restored in Valley after 7-day shutdown

Darjeeling unrest latest: Mobile internet blocked; economic activity halts as Gorkhaland agitation intensifies

FIR in Cyber Squatting: Misinterpretation of IT Act

Mobile internet banned in Saharanpur but Jio 4G continued to work for hours

WhatsApp administrator, member arrested and released on bail over alleged morphed photo of PM Modi

Gurgaon: Photocopy, internet in shops near board exam centres banned

BJP files complaints against man for vulgar cartoon on PM?Modi

Intolerance, again: Rijiju, BJP MP attack martyr’s daughter