Freedom of Expression

Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.

Jyoti Malhotra, a senior journalist with Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint claims that the freedom of speech and dissent is being clamped down in BJP ruled states

Despite its esteemed reputation as an academic institution, Harvard University received a free speech ranking of 0.00 on a 100-point scale

On the 11th of August, Home Minister Amit Shah introduced 3 new bills to revamp the criminal justice system of India. These bills Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill will replace the Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Evidence Act respectively.

In a visibly angry tweet, Shrinate questioned if the Ministers of the Modi government "realised the repercussions" of the diatribe against "President Obama".

Mamata Banerjee said, "Amitabh Bachchan has come and elaborately said what no one of us can say."

Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh of RSS Sunil Ambekar talked about various current issues in his interaction with the media.

Protests have erupted in Pakistan over allegedly blasphemous QR codes used by Samsung. Earlier, Pepsi was accused of blasphemy.

The SC has not stopped at just blaming one woman for violence and murder committed by religious fanatics in the name of Islam, it has also refused to grant any relief to Sharma and has rejected her application to transfer all FIRs against her to Delhi.

Professor Anand Ranganathan tweeted that he supported Zubair against his arrest because he believes that 295A is a draconian law that has no place in a moral, just and civilised society.