With 4.5 million signatures on a Google petition and one million messages sent to the United States Congress via the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in a single day, January 18, advocates of a free Internet have mounted a determined bid to stall new legislation that can chill free speech. The global chorus against two Bills that are winding their way through the American legal system is growing. The two draft laws in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, now known around the world by the acronyms SOPA and PIPA (for Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act), have raised a storm on the Internet. Read full article
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SOPA and PIPA
Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act are two draft laws in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, now known around the world by the acronyms SOPA and PIPA. These new Bills aim to create a procedure to blacklist inconvenient websites and censor them. They have many other weapons to kill websites. These include ordering search engines to remove them from results, prohibiting distribution of advertising, and stopping companies such as PayPal or Visa from processing their financial transactions.
Indian Information Technology Act, 2000
India passed the Information Technology Act 2000 in May 2000. It has been substantially amended through the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008. Section 69 of the act empowers the Central Government/State Government/ its authorized agency to intercept, monitor or decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource if it is necessary or expedient so to do in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence or for investigation of any offence.
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1. Purge : To remove (impurities and other elements) by or as if by cleansing. In history, a purge is the removal of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, from another organization, or from society as a whole.
2.Balkanize : divide a territory into small, hostile states; eg : balkanised future
3.Egregious : outstandingly bad; eg : flagrant an egregious lie.
4.Lurking : To exist unobserved or unsuspected: eg : danger lurking around every bend, policy compass clearly points to a lurking desire for censorship
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