Hyderabad: Free speech has been guaranteed by the Constitution, but this right has been violated by a series of arrests made across the country for posting content on social media platforms like facebook and WhatsApp which embarrasses the ruling establishment. Though the UPA era section 66A of the IT Act which was broadly worded enough to book you if you caused annoyance, inconvenience, insult or injury online has been scrapped by the supreme court indiscriminate social media arrests are cramping speech and debate. According to a report on Times of India, in 2012 and 2013, a girl from Palghar, Maharashtra was arrested for criticizing Bal Thackeray’s state funeral and another girl was arrested for liking the comment. In another incident a 18-year old Zakir Ali Tyagi was put behind the bars for 42 days for asking how River Ganga was a living entity, and he went on to discuss BJP’s plans of building Ram Mandir. He was booked under section 420 of the IPC and Section 66A...