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This will be an unpopular opinion, but I personally like highly oppressive and intrusive governments trying to impose their will on the internet and technology.
by LinuxBender 8y ago
This will be an unpopular opinion, but I personally like highly oppressive and intrusive governments trying to impose their will on the internet and technology.
Usually when this happens, it results in substantial innovation around privacy, security and awareness. Such movements will ultimately force many people underground and into various forms of VPN's, non standard operating systems and custom hardware.
To be clear, I am not condoning India's actions and I have no doubt many people will be hurt by this. I am merely pointing out that there will also be many unintended consequences and I personally believe that their government will ultimately lose more trust, control and visibility than they gain.
- shakna 8y agoThis is why I don't like laws like these. They're utterly ineffective at their stated goals. The targets are largely unaffected. However, the average person is affected. And can be deeply affected.
- Santosh83 8y agoYeah because the real purpose of these laws is to control the citizens, as ever more unrest in future is a given, for just about any country. Nothing except physically shackling every human being is going to stop crazy terrorists from ploughing through a crowd in a vehicle, but mark my words, you'll find western 'democracies' employing technology in literally every sphere of life to ostensibly control these 'terrorists' although the end result will be a dystopia of totally controlled citizenry that will find it impossible to break their chains unless they're prepared to die.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI would add that it aids criminals. Devious minds will adapt and work around such invasive laws. (excluding lazy criminals of course) The average person will not even research this. The end result will be petabytes of citizen data sitting on some government servers or amazon S3 buckets that will end up on the black market.
- vaylian 8y ago> Usually when this happens, it results in substantial > innovation around privacy, security and awareness [...] ... in the HN filter bubble. Not in the general public. Consider yourself lucky to be knowledgeable about IT. Most people are not and they have plenty of other things to think about instead of their IT-education.