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India has a score of 39 on a scale from 0 (most free) to 100 (least free), which places India 20 out of the 47 countries worldwide that were included in the 2012 report. India ranked 14 out of 37 countries in the 2011 report. India ranks third out of the eleven countries in Asia included in the 2012 report.
In 1989, The import [50] of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was banned in India for its purported attacks on Islam. [51] India lifted the Ban in May 2011. In 1990, Understanding Islam through Hadis by Ram Swarup was banned. [52] In the same year, the Hindi translation of the book was banned, and in March 1991 the English original became ...
Dailymotion was banned in India in May 2012, [29] but in the following month India unblocked access to video- and file-sharing sites including Dailymotion. The Madras High Court changed its earlier order, explaining that only specific URLs carrying illegally copied content should be blocked, not entire websites. [ 30 ]
India. India is one of a handful of countries that has completely banned TikTok, including on citizens’ personal devices. The ban was implemented in July 2020 after a border clash between China ...
Sharing images and videos of “violent activities” has been banned in India’s Manipur after two graphic videos recently circulated on social media in the conflict-ridden northeastern state ...
But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users.
In February 2021, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced new guidelines for social media companies, which required, among other things, the appointment of a chief compliance officer and the removal of content within 36 hours when requested by authorities, to take effect in May.
Banned by Parkash Singh Badal-led Punjab government in 2001 for allegedly insulting the Sikh faith. The state arrested the people who were found in possession of the book, and confiscated its copies. [41] In November 2008, the Supreme Court of India overturned the ban, stating that the Punjab government was allowed to issue a fresh ban, if ...