The Internet Democracy Project

These videos​ were made for the Internet Democracy Project ​that was held in Mumbai in 2011. ​It looks at how ​the Internet is changing democracy just as irrevocably as it is changing dictatorships.​ Through research, advocacy and debate, the Project seeks to unearth both the changes wrought by technology to democracy-as-we-know-it and the implications of these changes for our visions of progressive social change if they are to remain relevant in the digital age.​

In the video Vidyut Kale, Indian blogger at aamjanata.com talks about the ways a blogger can protect themselves from being taken off the internet while writing about ​a ​ topic that can rub the censor police the wrong way. ​These videos were made before the ​Supreme Court stuck down the dreaded section 66A of IT Act in 2015​, which​ allowed arrests of people posting offensive content on internet. This has been a win for the people and organization fighting for Internet censorship in India.

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