Indian comedian Kunal Kamra has petitioned the Bombay High Court to challenge recent changes to the country's information technology rules, which would allow the government to shut down critical voices.
But he adds that his legal challenge isn’t about him. “This is bigger than any one profession. It will affect everyone,” he says.
Experts believe the amendments to India’s IT rules would enable more of this kind of repression, under a government that has already extended its powers over the internet, forcing social media platforms to remove critical voices and using emergency powers toPrateek Waghre, policy director at the Internet Freedom Foundation , a digital liberties organization, says the social media team of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party hasabout political opponents and critics, while “reporters going to the ground...
Nonbinding, state-backed fact-checks already happen through the government’s Press Information Bureau, despite that organization’s checkered record on objectivity.compiled a number of PIB’s “fact-checks” and found that the Bureau simply labels inconvenient reports as “false” or “baseless” without providing any concrete proof.
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