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Not a huge issue but... why is the entire page of marketing and examples East Indian? What is a "salwar suit"? Is this a feature that's coming out globally or

Not a huge issue but... why is the entire page of marketing and examples East Indian? What is a "salwar suit"? Is this a feature that's coming out globally or just in India?

gshrikant 8y ago
Looking at the examples and how the product is spelled (British English) it seems like the product would be restricted to India.
ovao 8y ago
The region selection options at the bottom of the page have the U.K., India, and two others in lettering I don't recognize.
- cmg 8y ago
  The other two are Marathi and Hindi, both also spoken in India.
vthallam 8y ago
It is first launched only in India [0] . I guess they will update the landing page as they expand to other markets. [0] -https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/google-launches-neighbourly/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/google-launches-neighbourl...
g8oz 8y ago
India? Oh boy, as if there wasn't enough neighborhood gossip going on there, now it's going online.
- anonnel 8y ago
  Making neighborhood gossip easier is worrying on many levels. A hack that has been used in the past to scale totalitarian social control is to employ what is essentially a viral enforcement mechanism: basically, getting people to inform on their neighbors. It only takes one or two visible instances of this behavior with a violent outcome and it replicates quickly, following an exponential growth rate until the population is saturated with informants. Reporting on neighbors and peers is much of the glue which has held together the worst authoritarian regimes: DPRK, East Germany, Nazi Germany ... as well as being a primary strategy for causing the revolutions which put those regimes in place. A platform like this: - lowers the friction of informing - is vulnerable to anonymity / spoofing / automation / remote manipulation - allows for stories of informing to persist in the community memory as always-online posts, increasing their effect across time - is connected to a de facto surveillance apparatus (the internet) to boot
- unmole 8y ago
  Think conspiracy peddling WhatsApp groups but now localized!
gowld 8y ago
USA-first (or only) launches are the norm. Something different for a change.
saagarjha 8y ago
> salwar suit It's an article of clothing worn by Indian women.

Not a huge issue but... why is the entire page of marketing and examples East Indian? What is a "salwar suit"? Is this a feature that's coming out globally or just in India?

gshrikant 8y ago

Looking at the examples and how the product is spelled (British English) it seems like the product would be restricted to India.

ovao 8y ago

The region selection options at the bottom of the page have the U.K., India, and two others in lettering I don't recognize.

cmg 8y ago
The other two are Marathi and Hindi, both also spoken in India.

vthallam 8y ago

It is first launched only in India [0] . I guess they will update the landing page as they expand to other markets. [0] -https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/google-launches-neighbourly/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/google-launches-neighbourl...

g8oz 8y ago

India? Oh boy, as if there wasn't enough neighborhood gossip going on there, now it's going online.

anonnel 8y ago
Making neighborhood gossip easier is worrying on many levels. A hack that has been used in the past to scale totalitarian social control is to employ what is essentially a viral enforcement mechanism: basically, getting people to inform on their neighbors. It only takes one or two visible instances of this behavior with a violent outcome and it replicates quickly, following an exponential growth rate until the population is saturated with informants. Reporting on neighbors and peers is much of the glue which has held together the worst authoritarian regimes: DPRK, East Germany, Nazi Germany ... as well as being a primary strategy for causing the revolutions which put those regimes in place. A platform like this: - lowers the friction of informing - is vulnerable to anonymity / spoofing / automation / remote manipulation - allows for stories of informing to persist in the community memory as always-online posts, increasing their effect across time - is connected to a de facto surveillance apparatus (the internet) to boot
unmole 8y ago
Think conspiracy peddling WhatsApp groups but now localized!

gowld 8y ago

USA-first (or only) launches are the norm. Something different for a change.

saagarjha 8y ago

> salwar suit It's an article of clothing worn by Indian women.