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18 Months After
Saima Bhat
Kashmir artist Masood Hussain’s recent work making a demand for the restoration of high-speed internet for fighting the Coronavirus.
Struggling with the slow speed of the internet on Friday, February 5, Aisha, a tenth class student, was downloading tutorials of her new class. Not able to download, she lost hope of completing her assignments on time. Concerned about the embarrassment in the class, she cried. A few hours later, however, Aisha, a resident of Sonwar, was jumping with joy. The high-speed mobile internet (4G) was restored. The high-speed internet restoration resulted in uploading and downloading, almost in a jiffy.
Backstory: The Kashmir Model to Discipline Indian Media
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
Representative image. Photo: Reuters/Arko Datta
Rights13/Feb/2021
âIf democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from usâ¦What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over oneâs own life and authorship of oneâs own experience.â
~ Shoshana Zuboff,
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
What is striking about recent developments in India is the manner in which the media, both legacy and social, have become entangled with the politics of the day. In fact, they have become the site upon which politics plays out.
As Part of New Govt Programme, Cyber ‘Volunteers’ to Report ‘Anti-national Activities’, Illegal Content
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As part of a new programme started by the cybercrime cell of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), citizens can now report illegal content and anti-national activities such as child pornography, rape, terrorism and radicalisation.
The Indian Express reported that the programme will first start in Jammu and Kashmir and Tripura on a trial basis, and will be later implemented in other states depending on feedback.
The report said that MHA’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) will act as a nodal point while volunteers can register themselves with their states or union territories to act as cyber volunteers.