Over the past decade most tech CEOs have done pit stops in India with elaborate public communications in meetings with the Prime Minister.

The Bill is one of several laws that the Union government has passed or proposed to increase state power, decrease accountability and transparency and threaten ordinary citizens.

More voices taking this step and repeatedly stating it in public is a meaningful contribution towards the restoration of constitutional sanity. In a media landscape under constant attack by primetime anchors, such actions even when minor gain importance. Broken news will only be fixed by collective action.

Apar Gupta details the way in which technology can be used to deepen police abuses and erosion of democratic freedoms.

The Parliamentary Committee on IT can fulfill its purpose only with greater clarity, wider involvement, and transparency – much like others across the globe.

Not only have the new shutdown rules made the problem worse, the Centre also refuses to elaborate on the appropriate stakeholder consultations it insists that were carried out.

Far from determining any legal violation, on each date of hearing, the court has instead directed the government to consider heavy-handed proactive censorship.