Tuesday 24 March 2015

Supreme Court gives freedom of speech to people on social media websites; strikes down sec. 66A of I

IT : Information that may be grossly offensive or which causes annoyance or inconvenience are undefined terms which take into the net a very large amount of protected and innocent speech. Section 66A is cast so widely that virtually any opinion on any subject would be covered by it, as any serious opinion dissenting with the mores of the day would be caught within its net. Such is the reach of the Section that if it is held as constitutional, the chilling effect on free speech would be total. Se


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