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IIPM’s Response To Criticism Of Website Blocks

Note: our analysis and live blog of developments around these blocks. IIPM has issued an official response, from Prof Arindam Chaudhuri, via his twitter account, saying that a suit had been filed against Google, asking for the URLs to be removed. The Court had asked Google to remove these URLs but they weren't, so the Court  asked ICERT (India's cyber security body) to block "those defamatory URLs). Chaudhuri says he has no issues with satire sites, and "In a democracy, satire is basic freedom of speech." This response follows a deluge of criticism of Chaudhari and IIPM both on Twitter, and by media publications, following MediaNama's news-break last evening on DOT issuing orders to block URLs criticising IIPM. Chaudhari criticises (defames?) UGC and AICTE saying that they are "organizations full of bribe-seeking corrupt officials where, even at the top, they have a track record of being caught red-handed and being jailed. The standard of education they have created in the nation is shameful, to say the least." On Google, he says that "My views on this topic are like an open book. I have written about it in my magazine, The Sunday Indian (http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/internet-hooliganism/15161/ ) and spoken about it on my video blog ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2TONeK-ftc). I stand by them." A full copy of the response, which he has allowed to use, reproduced below. (hat tip: Saptarishi Datta) IIPM's official response IIPM's official response (from Prof Arindam Chaudhuri) on the order to remove defamatory links: The matter is sub judice and I should…

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