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A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundersh said the petition filed by the Hindu Sena was ‘completely misconceived’.

Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta had sought a ban on BBCs operation in India over documentary made on Modi and 2002 Gujarat riots

"You want us to put complete censorship...What is this?" the bench asked the petitioner.

The Online Citizen Asia Forum Asia calls for India to revoke arbitrary ban on BBC documentary India

The impact of this documentary has been amplified in india by social media and the indian governments acted on this. an adviser to the government has called the programme hostile propaganda and anti—india garbage. he also says the government ordered twitter to block tweets linking to clips of the film and that youtube has been instructed to block uploads of it. and so if this is a documentary about the prime minister, the fallout from it is also about media and press freedom in india, too. let...

Or information technology rules, that was first floated in 2021. and what he cited was emergency powers that give the government the ability to order the take—down of anything that threatens the sovereignty, national security of india or friendly relations with foreign countries. thats something that critics have said is kind of an over—broad definition and set of parameters that may allow the government to go after and take down online content it doesnt like. and does the government use thi...

‘We hope this pushback will have some effect and indicate to the government that this kind of censorship is unacceptable’

Twitter and youtube had complied, is an update to indias it rules or information technology rules that was first floated in in 2021. floated in 2021. and what he cited was emergency powers that give the government the ability to order the take—down of anything that threatens the sovereignty, national security of india or friendly relations with foreign countries. thats something that critics have said is kind of an over—broad definition and set of parameters that may allow the government to ...

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre over appeals challenging the ban on a controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and allegations linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots.