Online Censorship: Government’s Favourite Pastime Activity
While it is necessary to regulate the content posted on social media platforms, it cannot be done to stifle dissent and criticism of the government.
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While it is necessary to regulate the content posted on social media platforms, it cannot be done to stifle dissent and criticism of the government.
Over the last few years, there is ample material in public domain questioning the sanctity of India’s electoral process mainly due to the severe flaws in EVM voting and VVPAT counting. The EC has ignored most.
Ravish Kumar in his book ‘The Free Voice: On Democracy Culture and Nation’ critically evaluates the role being played by the media in contemporary times. Journalism in contemporary times has turned out to be uncritical of the government, rather it has become its mouthpiece.
From facing social pressures to financial setbacks, women recount the tribulations that followed because they kept their maiden names.
While the northern powers are largely responsible for the climate crisis, the countries of the Global South suffer the most, yet can’t afford to pay for its consequences. Meanwhile, the major fossil-fuel companies continue to rake in staggering profits – they are the real terrorists of Planet Earth.
The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments and movements in Latin America. The coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public pressure and policy can undo it.
Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the US Dollar.
Every child in the States is taught that in 1621, Pilgrims and the ‘Indians’ sat down and had a ‘peaceful’ meal. The bloody slaughter that the Indigenous people faced from the newcomers soon after is forgotten. US Indigenous organiser Maria Whitehorse and her group are seeking to correct this unfair history.
A colonial-era land grab in Kenya saw Britain evict half a million people. Now survivors are confronting some of the UK’s most powerful institutions, from Unilever to King Charles, in a bid to reclaim their land.
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