Tech law & policy researcher. #a2k #privacy #FoE #AI #infosec #FOSS #a11y zhōngyōng & anēkāntavāda. Fellow: @lirneasia + @yaleisp Past: @cis_india
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
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I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law.
Comments welcome. Do share widely!
PDF: ippr.in/index.php/ippr/artic…
HTML: pranesh.in/scholarly/article…
#FoE #censorship #IHRL
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Mass Funeral Held in Sanaa for 44 Yemenis, Including 21 Children, Killed by Saudi Airstrikes on Civilian Homes
The Saudi bombing campaign is strongly backed by the US, which provides intelligence and is refueling Saudi warplanes
#Yemen #SaudiArabia
news.antiwar.com/2026/11/11/…
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Worrying report of Dutch capitulation on ICC. This is what the 6 mont period of negotiations look like I guess rightsforum.org/en/diplomati…
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#Egypt: Widening assaults on press freedom by the authorities, including targeting, persecution and harassment of independent journalists, must end immediately.
We call on Egypt to end all forms of harassment of journalists and media outlets, and to respect and fulfil the right to freedom of expression, including the right to information. Journalists must be able to carry out their essential work free from intimidation and reprisals.
ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-…
🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🏢 🖥️ Google faces backlash over mega data centre in India
Construction of a data centre in the city of Visakhapatnam has been met with resistance from residents who fear the impact on the environment and their lives. Activists are demanding a moratorium on new data centres across Andhra Pradesh state until independent evaluations are published. Google says its facility will use air cooling systems and not water from an area already facing shortages
Don't the babus in MHA realize that this makes India look not just intolerant but weak as well?
#FoE #censorship #India #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom
I got a visa to India and was supposed to leave this morning to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. I had been invited as a panelist and speaker on the future of media and press freedom.
But «orders from above» in the Ministry of Home Affairs have cancelled my visa.
Here is my message for @AmitShah
I hope @reporters_co takes the govt and Instagram to court over this censorship of the press. #793b #FoE #censorship #India #Instagram #socmed #JournalismIsNotACrime
Instagram restricted our story on the ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections within two hours, citing the IT Rules. And when we posted about the restriction, that post was removed too.
Watch and share this video to see what @TweetSumedha & @VenkateshNSS reported on.
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Lina Atallah, without question one of the bravest journalists in the world, has been arrested by Egyptian security forces.
This is a despicable act of an authoritarian state.
#LinaAtallah #FreeLina #FreeAlaa #JournalismIsNotACrime #censorship #FoE #Egypt
Lina has just been freed upon bail. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/MadaMasr/status/126212…
Lina Atallah is one of the bravest people I've ever had the good fortune to know. What's happening with her is a travesty.
xitter.twitterapi.xyz/BBCWorld/status/212049…
#FoE #censorship #Egypt #JournalismIsNotACrime
Egyptian journalist's retrial adjourned as UN warns of 'widening assaults on press freedom' bbc.in/4BThJiM
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Over 13 years, Mada Masr has published 23,558 articles by 1,735 unique writers (240 with 10+ articles).
That includes:
• 6,292 long-form features (959 bylines; 131 wrote 10+)
• 2,561 op-eds (857 bylines; 53 wrote 10+)
Fascinating piece on "invasive" and "non-native" species, that really underscores the parallels between the politics of animal migration and human migration.
Delighted my @thebafflermag essay has been picked up by @gdnlongread. Big thrill, you can read it here:
theguardian.com/news/2026/no…
The Gauhati HC has long held that "prove that you aren't a witch" is the right kind of burden to place on those arbitrarily declared witches by the govt/tribunals.
ECI's internal records of 2024 elections show votes counted did not match votes cast on 51 seats in Maharashtra, Haryana and J&K.
Its own rules say such mismatch should trigger a probe into possible rigging.
Report by @TweetSumedha and @VenkateshNSS
reporters-collective.in/trc/…
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I am sharing this chart partially because it shows just how impressive the size of the Chinese manufacturing sector is but also because of the nice design choice.
‘NO SUCH ORDER PASSED BY HER LADYSHIP’
India’s government ordered blocking of 100+ illegal betting websites based on two court orders. But @Reuters has found the court orders were fake.
The two court orders carried blue court seals, a fake QR code and made-up case numbers such as “Writ - A 30480/2026”. They were sent by individuals who claimed to be lawyers, and asked for immediate implementation by Indian government.
The government sent them to internet providers to take down websites. The forgeries are the latest sign that fake orders are slipping past India's official content removal mechanism, considered one of the world's strictest
Following questions from Reuters, Uttar Pradesh police have opened a forgery investigation after Reuters queries to the Allahabad High Court, while the Rajasthan High Court told Reuters in an email the order did not exist on its server.
Who sent the orders to the government & how did officials order takedowns? Read.
tinyurl.com/49c8ju4z With @MunsifV, edits @Saad_Scrawls
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क्या हाल बना रखा है दिल्ली का?
सर्दी आते ही प्रदूषित हवा में सांस लेना मुश्किल हो जाता है.
दिल्ली के लिए 'इन लोगों' ने हर सीजन आपदा काल बना दिया है.
- नरेंद्र मोदी
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under the label of “personality rights”, the DHC sets out a more measured framework for assessing such claims. Dr. Aakanksha Kumar examines what the order gets right and where it leaves some questions unanswered. spicyip.com/2026/11/spicyip-… (2/2)
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In Kriti Sanon v. BBE Marketing Inc., the DHC’s ad interim order offers a welcome departure from the increasingly expansive approach to personality rights injunctions. By distinguishing between the different interests and causes of action that tend to be bundled (1/2)
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#Mexico's Supreme Court has granted ppl the legal right to have one's birth certificate revised to have a later (!) date of birth to reflect one's "social reality"—eg, your parents celebrated your birthday on the wrong day—rather than just to correct clerical errors.
#transageism
En atención al principio pro persona y al derecho a la identidad se puede modificar la fecha de nacimiento cuando sea posterior a la establecida en el registro; se debe acreditar el desacuerdo con la realidad social de la persona y que no hay mala fe
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