The Supreme Court has struck down section 66 A of the IT Act which allows police to arrest people on the basis of what they post on the internet.
Here is a collection of articles published in The Hindu on this topic.
Section 66A provides punishment for sending offensive messages through communication services.
> Read more Section 66A certainly does not engage in the balancing required to pursue the objective of preventing criminal intimidation and danger on social media.
> Read more What the outcry over Section 66A of the IT Act misses is the need for a mechanism to prevent arrests on flimsy interpretations of criminal law provisions.
> Read more| All you need to know about Sec 66A | | Saving free speech from the police |
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.”
> Read more| | Like it or not, comment is not free |
Here are some of the views posted by Facebook users, most of whom seemed to feel 66A curbs free speech rather than genuinely fight cyber crime.
> Read more| | | Does Section 66A curb or safeguard social media? |
