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Author: Kartik Chawla

Meet the New Internet, Same as the Old, Old Internet – except its not the Internet (Part III – the Future of Networks)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

This is the third post in this series; the first two, which set the background for the issue, are available here and here. The question therefore becomes – is it time we look beyond the ‘internet’ as it exists, to newer models of communication? The ‘models’ I refer to here are not absolutely novel –…

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Meet the New Internet, Same as the Old, Old Internet – except its not the Internet you know (Part II – The Tangled Wires)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

This is the second in my three-part series on the issue. The first and third parts are available here and here. Tangle One I’ll start with a side-note. In public debate, somehow, Network Neutrality ends up being represented as an absolutist concept, as “ISPs should perform no discrimination between the data travelling on their networks”….

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Meet the New Internet, Same as the Old, Old Internet – except its not the Internet you know (Part I – a bit of Background)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

This is the first post in my three-part series on Network Neutrality, the internet, innovation, and the future of networks. The second and third post are available here and here. The fundamental idea of the Schumpeterian model of Creative Destruction images a continuous cycle of Creation and Destruction of monopolies, presenting a continuous story of…

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Role of Intermediaries in Countering Online Abuse: Still a Work In Progress, Part II

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

This is the second in a two-part series by Jyoti Panday of Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, on the role of intermediaries in addressing online abuse. The first part of this post is available here. SIZE MATTERS The standards for blocking, reporting and responding to abuse vary across different categories of platforms. For example,…

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Role of Intermediaries in Countering Online Abuse: Still a Work In Progress, Part I

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

The TechLawForum@NALSAR is happy to bring you a detailed two-part post by Jyoti Panday of Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, on the role played by Intermediaries in countering abuse on the internet. Jyoti is a graduate of Queen Mary’s University, London. Her work focuses on the interaction between intermediaries, user rights, and and freedom of expression. …

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Shreya Singhal, and how Intermediaries are simply Intermediaries Once Again – Striking down the Chilling Effect

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

The concept of ‘intermediary liability’ in all its nuances, as I have written before, is one of the bulwarks of the internet as we know it, including one of the aspects of it that we all know and love – the power it gives to each and every individual to exercise their right to free…

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A Victory, and Moving Forward – TRAI Consultations on OTTs

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

Last week, the Supreme Court of India in its judgment in the case of Shreya Singhal and Ors. v Union of India has decreed S. 66A of the Information Technology Act unconstitutional in its entirety, and at the same drastically restricted the ambit of Ss. 69A and 79 by reading into them the jurisprudence of…

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Editors' Picks (22/3/15)

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

1. Dot wants to be the Wikipedia of location mapping, Napier Lopez, TheNextWeb. 2. Hardware Designs Should be Made Free: Here’s How to Do It, Richard Stallman, WIRED. 3. Humans: The Next Platform, Geoffrey Woo, TechCrunch. 4. Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949), OpenCulture.

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Editors' Picks (8/2/15)

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

1. We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea, Rober McMillan, WIRED. 2. Blocking online porn: who should make Constitutional decisions about freedom of speech?, Chinmayi Arun, Scroll.in. 3. Office Puts Microchips Under Employees’ Skin, Luke Karmali, IGN. 4. Why economists are wrong about tech, Michael Baxter, The Next Web. 5. Watch Vestigen’s…

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Editors' Picks (01/02/15)

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Kartik Chawla

1. Securing a future for Digital India, Arun Mohan Sukumar, The Hindu. 2. SC orders Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft to stop advertisements relating to sex determination, Apoorva Mandhani, LiveLaw. 3. Drone maker to add no-fly firmware to prevent future White House buzzing, Sean Gallagher, ARSTechnica. 4. The Pirate Bay is live once again,  Selena Larson, DailyDot.

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