Tag Archive | India
China’s Top Official in Tibet Orders New Media Clampdown
China’s top leader in Tibet is urging local authorities to clamp down on Internet and mobile phone use in the region, as Beijing prepares to open its annual National People’s Congress and Tibetans honor those who have died protesting Chinese rule. The state-run Tibet Daily quotes regional Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo as saying that [...]
Censorship in America: Hate Speech Overview
Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, color, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristic. In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite [...]
Indian Health Minister Sees Homosexuality as ‘Disease’
Just when you thought the world was finally starting to get it…this idiot opens his mouth and a big pile of poop falls out. Think before you speak much? HIV and gay-rights activists are sharply criticizing India‘s health minister for his remarks labeling homosexuality as a disease. The comments reflect entrenched attitudes in a country [...]
Exiled Indian Artist Targeted by Radical Hindu Groups Dies
India’s most eminent artist, Maqbool Fida Husain, has died in London at the age of 95. Tributes flowed in from the India’s President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, artists and ordinary citizens when news of Maqbool Fida Husain’s death in London was reported in India. M.F. Husain was known as the “Picasso of India,” [...]
India Descends Into Extreme Internet Censorship
A year and a half ago, we noted some new laws and plans for laws in India that would likely lead to widespread censorship of the internet in that country, and a commenter on that post just alerted us to the news that some of these ridiculous new laws have gone into effect. They’re incredibly [...]
Hindus Ask India’s New Film Censor Chair Leela Samson to Curb Vulgarity and Violence
Source: DailyIndia.com Nevada (US), April 02: Hindus have urged Leela Samson, the newly appointed chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) of India, to halt the unnecessary violence and vulgarity of Indian films. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement today, said that seeing the continuous increase in the vulgarity and violence in [...]
Samson Needs to Look Before Amendements to Cinematograph Act Head to Cabinet
Source: IndiaTelevision.com NEW DELHI: The amendments to the Cinematograph Act 1952 proposed by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry will be placed before the Union Cabinet as soon as the newly appointed noted Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification and eminent Bharatnatyam dancer Leela Samson has seen the proposals with regard to film censorship [...]
Mar 10, 1959: Rebellion in Tibet
On this day in 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces. China’s occupation of Tibet began nearly a decade before, in October 1950, when troops from its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded the country, barely one year after the Communists gained full [...]
Internet Censorship In India Has Increased
Source: CJ News India Internet has been under constant and furious attacks all over the world. The fact is that Internet is under potential threat these days. The threat is not only from malicious users, rouge nations and automated viruses and worms but also from our own governments. Take the example of Internet kill [...]
Fight Website Blocking And Internet Censorship In India
↑ Grab this Headline Animator Source: CJNews India Blogspot has been subjected to domain blocking on numerous occasions in India. The latest in the series is the blocking of Blogspot domain by Indian internet service providers (ISPs). As more and more blog owners are reporting non access to their blogs, the issue must be investigated. [...]
Jan 30, 1948: Gandhi Assassinated
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi’s Vaishnava mother was deeply religious and early on exposed her son to Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion that advocated nonviolence. Gandhi was [...]
