• @CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca
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    11017 days ago

    When Russia sought to ban PM in their country they used the same excuse as India (fake bomb threats). However, understanding that this can be done via different email services, just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

    • Libb
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      17 days ago

      +1

      just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

      They’re far from being the sole countries scared about citizens safekeeping any semblance of online privacy (hi from France, EU)

      • melroy
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        716 days ago

        Sorry to hear about France. It’s really worse in France regarding your freedom online. Ironically.

    • @nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      916 days ago

      They even tried to restrict VPN companies by passing a bill that forces them to keep logs. Proton was one of the companies that packed up and left. Good VPN companies don’t have servers in India.

  • @matto@lemm.ee
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    8517 days ago

    I like it. This means that Proton actually works and they have no way to steal your information.

    • @djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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      2016 days ago

      Right. Couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. Especially since the company has been taking a lot of Ls recently.

    • @washipp@lemmy.ml
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      2717 days ago

      Its usually somehow possible to evade such bans, but not every citizen knows about proxies and how to properly use them. So reducing its accessibility certainly hurts India.

      • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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        1317 days ago

        Funny thing is that the more you block, the less these bans matter. Every time a big social media gets blocked, a few more unaware people install a VPN (even if a sketchy one, but that’s a completely different story). So pretty much everyone around me uses at least one banned service, which in turn makes all the other bans not matter. The only instance when it does is when they block the previously-working means of ban evasion (like when they blocked Wireguard/Openvpn last year) and people have to find a new one.

        • @washipp@lemmy.ml
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          316 days ago

          Very interesting. Im fortunate in that, Im not in a country that (so far) has not banned a technology I’m using. But definitely, people will always find a way to circumvent a ban.

    • StomataOP
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      1417 days ago

      Not sure I’m not Indian. But we should see it as a war against encryption

    • Anna
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      1016 days ago

      No need for anything extra proton already comes with alternate routing

      • @nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        916 days ago

        *Modi. But yes … he’s kind of a snowflake. Never had a press conference in 11 years, except when he was forced to outside India.

        • @Thebigguy@lemmy.ml
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          616 days ago

          Ah sorry I thought there was an h in there. Most right wingers are the biggest fucking snowflakes, they sure know how to dish it out but can’t take any.

            • @nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              WW3 isn’t going to happen. If you had known anything about the India-Pak conflict, you wouldn’t have said that. Look up Pulwama, 2019 and Kargil War.

              The official reason was false bomb threats that happened months ago in some schools in Delhi and other places. Completely unrelated to the conflict in Pahalgam or the strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan Administered Kashmir. The rest is far too ignorant to respond to. See my comment here and do some research. Either way, idgaf. Please don’t ping me again. I’d much rather talk about it with fellow Indian leftists than with people with no understanding of India or Pakistan.

              • melroy
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                110 days ago

                Hopefully it will not ending up in a WW3 then.

                • @nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  110 days ago

                  You’ll be fine. Your governments won’t wage direct war, they’ll sell weapons. The US called it a ‘Cold War’ while numerous wars directly funded by it were massacring people in the ‘third world’. They’ll call it ‘third world tribalism’ or something stupid like that while we fight pointless wars and you’d be shown news about how nice your country is to not go into war, and how utterly uncivilised and stupid we are while they fund armed groups to aggravate people. Why do you care?

      • melroy
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        516 days ago

        true… but at the same time India is slowly following China & Russia in terms of their human rights, privacy violation and “open” internet (closed).