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First, it was Aadhaar and now this. Somehow Indian Govt wants to track every citizen and build their dictatorship.

screye 8y ago
> build their dictatorship. I highly doubt any Indian government wants or even thinks they can do this. India in all its diversity, consists of a huge number of separate factions. The Government only works due to a mutual compromise from enough factions to form a coalition. Also, the Indian judiciary and parliament hold genuine power and exercise it too. It is nearly impossible for a single person to gain enough momentum to even start being dictatorial. Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC.
- navait 8y ago
  While dictatorship is obviously absurd, what about Indira Gandhi and the Emergency?
  - pkd 8y ago
    Indira Gandhi's shenanigans led to the the establishment of the Basic Structure Doctrine of the Indian constitution, which I hope will prevent anybody else from exploiting the same loopholes
    - navait 8y ago
      That sounds like a good lesson was learned.
- sbmthakur 8y ago
  > Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC. I don't like what is happening but it is far better than controlling the entire government from 10 Janpath.
- OnlyRepliesToBS 8y ago
  lol
techie128 8y ago
Under a dictatorship, people don't have the right to choose. People chose a specific party to represent them in 2014 and in 2018 that party lost several state elections. This is far from how a dictatorship works. Your assertion is factually incorrect.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Building something usually refers to that thing not already being completed.
- Santosh83 8y ago
  This is groundwork for the future when tech will control the groupthink of people more and more. And it also enables the shutdown of key dissenting voices in the short-term and did you not read about the arrests of certain activists recently? Previously they had to gather meatspace intelligence but now they can monitor anything that flagged people do digitally and that can be used at a convenient time to shut them down. Tomorrow you could easily become that 'flagged' person too.
worldexplorer 8y ago
NSA has been doing this for decades and last I heard USA is still democracy. Dictatorship in India is next to impossible.
sbmthakur 8y ago
There was no Aadhar in 1975-77.
vishaltelangre 8y ago
> build their dictatorship. I highly doubt that this is what the motive is. But I agree that this decision is very irresponsible and can have a disastrous impact. It could surely help in detecting a pattern which may put the nation in some sort of risk, but there is a greater and inevitable chance that it can be easily misused by the granted authorities or some personnel working for those authorities.

> build their dictatorship. I highly doubt any Indian government wants or even thinks they can do this. India in all its diversity, consists of a huge number of separate factions. The Government only works due to a mutual compromise from enough factions to form a coalition. Also, the Indian judiciary and parliament hold genuine power and exercise it too. It is nearly impossible for a single person to gain enough momentum to even start being dictatorial. Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC.

navait 8y ago
While dictatorship is obviously absurd, what about Indira Gandhi and the Emergency?
- pkd 8y ago
  Indira Gandhi's shenanigans led to the the establishment of the Basic Structure Doctrine of the Indian constitution, which I hope will prevent anybody else from exploiting the same loopholes
  - navait 8y ago
    That sounds like a good lesson was learned.
sbmthakur 8y ago
> Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC. I don't like what is happening but it is far better than controlling the entire government from 10 Janpath.
OnlyRepliesToBS 8y ago
lol

techie128 8y ago

Under a dictatorship, people don't have the right to choose. People chose a specific party to represent them in 2014 and in 2018 that party lost several state elections. This is far from how a dictatorship works. Your assertion is factually incorrect.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
Building something usually refers to that thing not already being completed.
Santosh83 8y ago
This is groundwork for the future when tech will control the groupthink of people more and more. And it also enables the shutdown of key dissenting voices in the short-term and did you not read about the arrests of certain activists recently? Previously they had to gather meatspace intelligence but now they can monitor anything that flagged people do digitally and that can be used at a convenient time to shut them down. Tomorrow you could easily become that 'flagged' person too.

worldexplorer 8y ago

NSA has been doing this for decades and last I heard USA is still democracy. Dictatorship in India is next to impossible.

sbmthakur 8y ago

There was no Aadhar in 1975-77.

vishaltelangre 8y ago

> build their dictatorship. I highly doubt that this is what the motive is. But I agree that this decision is very irresponsible and can have a disastrous impact. It could surely help in detecting a pattern which may put the nation in some sort of risk, but there is a greater and inevitable chance that it can be easily misused by the granted authorities or some personnel working for those authorities.