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Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode I – Eliminalia 12 April, 2021 Since November 2020, Qurium has received several mails from fake lawyers asking us to remove articles related to corruption in Angola involving Isabel dos Santos or Vincent Miclet. Two of the investigative websites that Qurium hosts, Maka Angola and The Elephant have been targeted by such content take-down campaigns. In all cases, the mails have came from legal firms claiming copyright (DMCA) or data protection legislation (GDPR), ...

India orders Twitter to take down tweets critical of its coronavirus handling Twitter has taken down dozens of tweets in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi’s handling of the coronavirus, to comply with an emergency order from the Indian government. New Delhi made an emergency order to Twitter to censor over 50 tweets in the country, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University project. The social network has complied with the request, and withheld those tweets from u...

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. These tweets, which are now inaccessible to Indian users of the social media website, include posts by Revanth Reddy, a sitting Member of Parliament; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and two filmmakers, Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.  MediaNam...

Twitter removed dozens of tweets at the request of the Indian government. The tweets were critical of the countrys response to COVID-19, MediaNama reported.

Pirate TV Streaming App Mobdro Disappears Without Clue February 17, 2021 Mobdro, one of the most popular pirated Android-based software app focusing on TV content that includes popular TV shows, live sports and documentaries, has disappeared online, reports TorrentFreak.   The app’s current and historic domains presently are all non-functional. The latest version of the app, with build number 2.2.8 no longer works because access to the streams has been removed .  Over the years, Mobdro has...

In conversation with Mitali Mukherjee, Apar Gupta, executive director at the Internet Freedom Foundation pointed out that the crux of the problem lay in an opaque interpretation of Section 69A.

While the controversy may fizzle out, it would be welcome if the current tension led to reform and greater transparency. 

> President Trump has received many copyright complaints on Twitter, a tally that has just increased due to yet another DMCA takedown notice. However, a policy decision by Twitter means hes been able to circumvent the platforms repeat infringer rules. The big question is whether hell continue getting special treatment moving forward or will Twitter eventually have to nuke his account? Every year billions of citizens help to develop the Internet by adding their own content, whether that’s su...

> Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most anticipated games ever, is being pirated at a rate rarely seen in the gaming world. Already a smash hit through legitimate channels, the game is being shared by an estimated 100,000+ users on public BitTorrent trackers alone. This hasnt gone unnoticed by developer CD Projekt Red which is currently sending wave after wave of copyright takedown notices. After years of hype, rumor, speculation and excitement, everyone knew the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 would be s...