Netizens tweet #No66A as government insists that the internet needs to be censored

When the previous Congress-led government started using section 66A of the Information Technology Act to suppress dissent, it received plenty of flak from the opposition. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporters compared the government’s actions to strategies implemented during the Emergency and the leader of the opposition Arun Jaitley told Parliament that this amounted to excessive censorship.

But over the last few months, it has become clear that Jaitley’s government is going to defend the same provision in the Supreme Court. Reports on Thursday made it clear that the government sees section 66A as a vital regulation, adding that the internet needs more stricter curbs than print or television.
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