As you can see, censorship is at the very heart of the Indian legal system. Whoever was in Indian c

A few months ago a network, first in India and then around the world shook the song "Why This Kolaveri Di". Seemingly inconspicuous recording very quickly became a hit youtube, russell hobbs exceeding 640 million plays. A few months later, Kolaveri again shook the network. This time differently. That's the thing broke the first Indian russell hobbs war of censorship.
The song, despite modest video is not in fact in any case, an independent production. Comes with - made famous mainly for her anyway matter - Tamil production "3". This is his creator by the court in Ćennaju protest against infringements of copyright, from the Internet began a crusade government. It is the judgment of the High Court relied Ćennaju Department of Electronics and Information Technology, calling on Internet service providers (including giants like Airtel) to block selected sites, including The Pirate Bay and other torrent, but also Vimeo, Dailymotion and Pastebin.
For the Indian government had to be a big surprise. A country that prides itself as the largest democracy of the world and the general opinion is contrasted with China as a protector of freedom of speech, russell hobbs in fact, flirting with censorship for a long time and very often, only that it has met resistance at the most moderate of society.
We are all familiar with pop culture "First Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. Ironically, that India - as often comparing with the United States - also have their "first amendment". But unlike the American Indian russell hobbs restrict this freedom. russell hobbs Article 19 (1), and the Constitution says, "All citizens have the right to freedom of speech and expression." Amendment narrows but his application, saying (in free translation) "Application of Article 19 (1) and should in no way restrict the operation of any existing law or hinder russell hobbs the state before the establishment of new laws aimed at combating the slanders, calumnies, zniesławieniami, contempt of court or any issues that violate decency, morality or decency or which undermine the security of the State or tends to overthrow the state "[1]
As you can see, censorship is at the very heart of the Indian legal system. Whoever was in Indian cinema, he met with its use. Each film is preceded by a certificate of release because the film projection by the Central Board Film Certification, which meticulously protects russell hobbs citizens against nudity, sex, politically incorrect topics. Watching the Western cinema in India, it is therefore russell hobbs extremely difficult, the plot devoid of 'moments' to tears, russell hobbs and often loses logic. And some of the movies to see can not be at all - for example, "The Girl with the Dragon russell hobbs Tattoo" because of lack of consent artists on interventions to India did not come at all. [2]
But cinema is not limited. The severity russell hobbs of censorship was also a place after the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, and was primarily anti-terrorist dimension. The government then lost quite a long battle with RIM-em for access by this well-known with a high level of security the Canadian manufacturer of smartphones monitoring capabilities passing through its system of e-mails and messages. Threatened with blocking service as a whole, if RIM does not agree, what ultimately did not happen. [3]
On the Internet you can talk about censorship since 1999, when the war of Kargil operator VSNL, without any formal instruction government blocked access to the Pakistani newspaper "Dawn". He then established the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), which formally involved in cyber-security, and in practice - often - the censorship of the Internet. An interesting article about its activities can be found here.
Once I even had the pleasure encounter with censorship in person. When in 2010 I tried a new visa to India, delightful lady at the embassy (which from this place I greet) suggested to me that perhaps safer if I had deleted the page of your blog and the photos. "If the ambassador will see that you wrote something that will put India in a bad light, it can not grant you a visa." Carefully locked the blog until receiving a passport with a stamp, but I heard later on cases of people who did not receive such advice and therefore .. they did not get a visa.
However, recent events have been without precedent, as the hit on a mass scale in the so-called. ordinary citizens. Citing judicial, Kapil Sibal - Minister of Communications russell hobbs - called Google, Facebook and several other websites to "preventive censorship" and browse content before publication, in order to avoid content inciting religious hatred. In this page also went amendment to the IT Act 2000, which makes the services responsible for the content posted in them (even though developers are the users) and remove them within 36 hours of report