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No depth: Shallow minds try barricading the web in India

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tue, Jan 17, 2012 3:15AM UTC View Comments

No one in India’s official establishment is comprehending the damage being done to its democratic credibility by the ham-handed manner in which content regulation of the Internet is being sought. Even in the mid-1990s when there were no laws worth their name to control the explosion of satellite television channels, the scenario had not resembled...

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Comment: Mahathir’s limited democracy vs Sibal’s pre-screening content

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tue, Dec 06, 2011 10:58PM UTC View Comments

What is common to Malaysia’s longest serving Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed and Kapil Sibal, India’s Communications and Information Technology minister? Simply put – both share a liking for smothering views that are not palatable. Let us break down issues for which the two are ‘trending’. India is slowing down, says Mahathir, because it is...

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Internet censorship in Asia

By Jon Russell Fri, Sep 16, 2011 12:30PM UTC View Comments

Reuters has a write-up looking at how Asian nations are realising that they cannot control the internet (here). The article mentions a few obvious characters like China and Singapore with Malaysia, India and South Korea all mentioned too. There is no coverage of Thailand – where use of lese majeste laws is regressing, according to...

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Foreign web host company ‘snitched’ lese majeste critic to Thai authorities

By Siam Voices Tue, Aug 30, 2011 8:30AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut Earlier this month, the United States has expressed “disappointment” over the prosecution of Joe Gordon, a naturalized US citizen from Thailand who was arrested in May and charged with lèse majesté. Gordon has allegedly linked to the book “The King Never Smiles”, an unauthorized and banned biography on Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej...

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The rise of social media in China

By Jon Russell Mon, Aug 01, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

China has long fought to manage the amount of communication published online. The recent Wenzhoubar train crash, which saw 39 people lose their lives, is being been cited as a landmark in the changing face of the Chinese web which is seeing government officials battling to control the message amongst social media platforms – with the...

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