Why India’s censorship of news media online without stating reasons is unlawful

Vineet Bhalla

· May 11, 2025 · 09:00 am

X moves Karnataka HC against Centre using IT Act to censor content

Scroll Staff

· Mar 20, 2025 · 07:05 pm

Pakistan’s great firewall could scuttle struggling tech sector

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Rest of World

· Sep 20, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Why online content creators are protesting against the new broadcasting bill

Abhik Deb

· Aug 10, 2024 · 06:30 am

How India’s Broadcast Bill will muzzle content creators

Nikhil Pahwa

· Jul 31, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Indian news channels on YouTube are battling arbitrary blocking, curbs on earnings

Sharveya Parasnis

· Apr 22, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Internet freedom in India declined for the third straight year in 2019-’20, says democracy watchdog

Scroll Staff

· Oct 14, 2020 · 07:44 pm

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and 13 other online platforms sign up for self-regulation code

Scroll Staff

· Sep 04, 2020 · 10:52 pm

India to Africa, internet shutdowns are becoming increasingly common – even though they rarely work

George Ogola, The Conversation

· Feb 21, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Not just porn, Indian users say telecoms are blocking access to many websites

Aria Thaker, qz.com

· Feb 13, 2019 · 01:30 pm

The ‘Purdah’ amendment: Proposed changes to the IT Act could draw a veil over the Indian internet

Chinmayi Arun

· Jan 24, 2019 · 07:30 am

China’s cyber authority erases more than 9,800 social media accounts of independent news providers

Scroll Staff

· Nov 13, 2018 · 12:31 pm

Google’s plan for a heavily censored Chinese search engine presents an ethical dilemma

Catherine Flick, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Social media hub: Centre tells SC it is withdrawing plan, will review the policy

Scroll Staff

· Aug 03, 2018 · 01:02 pm

Setting up a social media hub is like creating a surveillance state: Supreme Court

Scroll Staff

· Jul 13, 2018 · 01:33 pm

India’s internet shutdown rules are encouraging online censorship

Sai Vinod

· Jul 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

India lost over Rs 20,000 crore due to internet shutdowns between 2012 and 2017, shows study

Scroll Staff

· Apr 26, 2018 · 11:21 am

Internet service providers in India have blocked the most number of websites: Study of 10 countries

Scroll Staff

· Apr 25, 2018 · 09:47 am

Global press freedom is at its worst in 10 years, finds study

Scroll Staff

· Nov 30, 2017 · 07:15 pm

Why Amol Palekar’s petition against state censorship is doomed to fail

Girish Shahane

· Apr 20, 2017 · 08:00 am