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Supreme Court dismisses PIL seeking regulatory board to monitor and manage OTT and streaming platforms in India

ANI - 18 October, 2024

Dismissing PIL seeking regulatory board to monitor and manage OTT and streaming platforms, Supreme Court said that all PILs are now on policies

World

USA: Satire website Babylon Bee sues Govt of California after it introduces laws aiming to censor satire and comedy in the name of ‘countering...

OpIndia Staff - 1 October, 2024

Criticising the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillion said that one of the provisions of the law specifically targets satirists including writers at the Babylon Bee.

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Covid-19 posts, Hunter Biden laptop story and Russian disinformation: Mark Zuckerberg exposes how Biden administration forced Meta to censor free speech

OpIndia Staff - 27 August, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company made 'some decisions' owing to the intimidation of the Biden administration, which it should not have enforced in hindsight.

News Reports

As West Bengal police starts crackdown on social media for comments on RG Kar hospital incident, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari offers free legal help to...

OpIndia Staff - 18 August, 2024

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has free legal assistance to social media users who have been targeted by Bengal police for their online comments on RG Kar hospital incident

News Reports

Elon Musk says Google has ‘search banned’ Donald Trump in US, Republican Senator orders inquiry: What we know about the autocomplete feature

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2024

Some social media users pointed out that the autocomplete feature of the Google search engine could not be compared to the actual search results

News Reports

Is the US carrying out ‘political censorship’ in India under the garb of combating fake news? Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff - 26 July, 2024

'Disinfo Lab' pointed out that the US government also forced the likes of Reddit, Amazon and Wikipedia to take down, promote certain forms of literature and make content changes.

News Reports

Delhi HC rejects plea seeking pre-censorship of content against Rohingya Muslims on Facebook, says it is a ‘treatment worse than the disease’

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2024

Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition seeking pre-censorship of material against Rohingya Muslims on Facebook.

News Reports

‘Justin Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada’, says Elon Musk after govt initiates censorship for podcasts

ANI - 2 October, 2023

Responding to Glen Greenwald's post, Elon Musk stated, “Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada. Shameful”.

News Reports

I&B ministry assures strict action on actor Vishal’s corruption allegations against CBFC, deputes officer to Mumbai for investigation

OpIndia Staff - 29 September, 2023

Tamil actor Vishal alleged that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in Mumbai took a bribe of Rs 6.5 lakh for the censor certification of the Hindi version of his film ‘Mark Antony’.

News Reports

Tamil actor Vishal accuses Mumbai’s CBFC of corruption, reveals paying Rs 6.5 lakhs as bribe to get censor certificate for Hindi version of his...

ANI - 29 September, 2023

Tamil actor Vishal alleged that the Central Board of Film Certification in Mumbai took a bribe of Rs 6.5 lakh for the censor certification of the Hindi version of his film ‘Mark Antony’

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