13 Dec 2021
Samir Saran
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Thank you Tom, and thank you Amb. Power for inviting me to speak on this important issue. Let me congratulate her and the US government for really beginning to respond to the challenges of intrusive tech. That has to be one of the issues that global civic actors, thinkers, and even political leaders must devote…
8 Feb 2021
Vivan Sharan
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The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and Twitter are sparring over an official order to block certain social media handles and tweets, posted by users on February 1. The content in question is about the farmers’ protests. Twitter is reported to have received a blocking order under Section 69A of India’s Information Technology…
25 Aug 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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In my 1997 book India Is For Sale, I wrote in some detail about how Indians do not understand conflict of interest. They understand conflict and they understand interest but they think the ‘of’ in between is only a preposition. Social climbers are especially attracted to this kind of unprincipled herd mentality. L’affaire Wall Street…