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Indian Supreme Court has given India what it deserves — a chance to experience free and open Internet and protection against censorship. The court said…

March 25, 2015 – The verdict is rocking, with the times. Beautiful quotes (by) Shakespeare, Mark Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar to explain what incitement…

On March 24, the Supreme Court took an unambiguous stand in favour of free speech on the internet by striking down the now infamous Section…

Free-speech activists and social media experts applauded the Supreme Court’s order to scrap a law that allowed police to arrest anyone posting “offensive” messages online,…

On March 24, 2015, the Supreme Court of India took an unambiguous stand in favor of free speech on the Internet by striking down the…

The recent arrest of a writer in Karnataka over alleged Facebook posts making sexist and derogatory comments about a social activist on Facebook, has once…

SFLC.in was nominated and among a select few finalists for the inaugural Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression Award in the Excellence in Legal Service….

On March 5, 2015, the Economic Times carried a report on the rising levels of concern among proprietary software vendors over the Indian Government’s increasing…

SFLC.in board member Prof Rahul De talked about Union Budget 2015 at an expert panel hosted by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Link to the…

Mark Webbink Named New Chairman of SFLC Board https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2015/feb/05/webbink/ The Software Freedom Law Center announced in early February that Mark Webbink has been elected the…

While Section 5(2) of the Telegraph Act and Sections 69 and 69B of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) collectively set the stage for direct…

In December 2014, the Government of India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) invited stakeholder comments on the First Draft of the National IP…