ANONYMOUS INDIA

June 9, 2012
The Indian Government has been making strong laws that allow them to invade your privacy and to censor your free speech since 2008. Section 69 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Under this IT Act, any Government official or policeman will be able to listen in to all your phone calls, read your SMSs and emails, and monitor the websites you visit. And he will not require any warrant from a magistrate to do so.

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Section 69 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act of 2008 appears to be in violation of Article 21 of the Constitution no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.

A great man once said Freedom is my birth right and I shall have it. Today, we echo his words. We stand as one. We demand freedom.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

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June 9, 2012 Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011

Government has enacted laws that gives it a free pass to censor our Facebook posts, listen to every Skype conversation we have, monitor our tweets or blogs or access private photographs and documents we store online, or track our location using our mobile phones or surveil all of your online activity. It gives permission to any officer to censor any material from the Internet within 36 hours, even if it is not illegal in India.

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This is against Article 19 of the Constitution of India:

Right to freedom of Speech and Expression.

It also endangers our privacy.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. Governments wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.

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Self-Regulatory Act? Yes the act Does not give the person whose website or content has been removed any chance to object. Does not let the government and the public to know what content has been censored on what websites.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

We need Power of the Internet and Freedom of Expression

The one medium where anybody can directly share their thoughts with billions of other people in an instant. People who would never have any chance of being published in a newspaper now have the opportunity to have a blog and provide their thoughts to the world. This also means that thoughts that many newspapers would decide not to publish can be published online since the Web does not, and more importantly cannot, have any editors to filter content.

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For many dictatorships, the right of people to freely express their thoughts is something that must be heavily regulated. Unfortunately, we are now faced with the situation where our GOVERNMENT are also trying to do so by CENSORING the INTERNET.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

When was the last time you checked whether you had 'rights' to a joke before forwarding it? Did you share a Twitter message containing the term "#IdiotKapilSibal", as thousands of people did a few days ago? Did you share a funny picture of some politicians on your Facebook profile?

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The new IT Act rules can censor that content and gives you no rights to object for the same. The Intermediary Guidelines are very badly thought-out and their drafting is even worse. Worst of all, they are unconstitutional, as they put limits on freedom of speech.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

Such censorship existed during Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union. Not even during the Emergency has such censorship ever existed in India. Mr. Sibal's more recent efforts at forcing major Internet companies such as Indiatimes, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, to 'self-regulate' reveals a desire to gain ever greater powers to bypass the IT Act when censoring Internet content that is 'objectionable' (to the government).

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Sibal wants Internet companies to 'self-regulate' user-uploaded content, so that the government would never have to send these requests for removal in the first place, nor block sites officially using the IT Act.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

Backdoor Censorship through Copyright Act

The government cannot bring about censorship laws in a straightforward manner they are trying to do so surreptitiously, through the back door. Back door is Copyrights Act. Mr. Sibal's latest proposed amendment to the Copyright Act, which is before the Rajya Sabha right now, has a provision called section 52(1)(c) by which anyone can send a notice complaining about infringement of his copyright. The Internet company will have to remove the content immediately without question, even if the notice is false or malicious. The sender of false or malicious notices is not penalized. But the Internet company will be penalized if it doesn't remove the content that has been complained about.

THIS IS GOING TO KILL THE INTERNET ANYONE CAN REMOVE ANY CONTENT
We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.

ANONYMOUS INDIA
June 9, 2012

COPYRIGHTS ACT TO KILL INTERNET

Anyone can complain about any content, without even having to show that they own the rights to that content. The government seems to be keen to have the power to remove content from the Internet without following any 'due process' or fair procedure. Indeed, it not only wants to give itself this power, but it is keen on giving all individuals this power.

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It's ultimate effect will be the Death of the Internet as we know it.

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive the denial of basic human rights. We do not forget those who assist the oppressed. To the tyrannical government of India ... Expect us.