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Archive for the ‘Freedom of Information’ CategoryThe following statement was issued by the South Asia Media Solidarity Network at its meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 6-7. We, the representatives of journalists’ unions and associations in the South Asian region, meeting on the platform of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), express our deepest concern over continuing violations of media rights [...] No surprises here. Just that we need to take note. After all Mubarak is a “democrat” by some standards . An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years’ prison for insulting Islam and the president. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt blogger jailed for ‘insult’ technorati tags:blogging, freedom, ethics A special edition of The World Debate, one of the BBC’s flagship programmes, will be filmed on Thursday October 26 at the World Congress on Communication for Development in Rome, Italy. Entitled “Is a free media essential for development?” it will be broadcast on BBC World on 28-29 October, as well as made available online. Transmission [...] Increasingly new media companies have to confront this: “A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google to disclose the data of users of Google’s social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.” The choice is not so easy but the issues at stake are. This one’s for posterity. “India is under attack from rogue elements within and outside the country, not only in its physical space (think Mumbai), but in cyberspace too. Extensions “.co.in†and “.gov.in†are special targets of hack-attacks, whose number, and intensity, is increasing at a worrying pace,” reads a report from Vandana Gombar in the Business Standard today. CERT-In [...] With a site named Indian Online Journalism and there is no rant about the blocking of the 17 websites or inaccessibility of three popular domains. Yes, strange indeed. There is excellent activism going on already. There is no need for duplicating the effort here save to extend a hand of solidarity. The casual manner in which three [...] According to Shivam Vij, the 22-page ban order refers to “sites to be blocked”. If that was the case, the ISPs must have gone for the overkill. Why? But that’s not the fundamental issue. As of this writing many blogs continue to remain out of bounds — typical bureaucratic overkill. One obviously is concerned about hate mongering. The disproportionate noise that fundamentalists of all hues are able to inflict on the online world is evident. There are techno-fundamentalists, of course, who think that blogosphere or cyberspace will somehow filter hate mongering. [...] Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi’s diatribe against media owners is not without merit. If the proposed Broadcasting Bill facilitates a discussion on the way the media function, we need to welcome it. A company, Email Data Source Inc’s business it to “analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages” and, of course, make money by doing that. A headline in The Progressive reads thus: VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition†for Criticizing Bush. Hallelujah! The Bill of Media Rights ostensibly concerns the media situation in the United States. |
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