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The U.S. could easily stop this by threatening to withhold or tax remittances to India if they move forward with it.
by jrs95 8y ago
The U.S. could easily stop this by threatening to withhold or tax remittances to India if they move forward with it.
- newsgremlin 8y agoAnd so another nail in the coffin for a free and open internet for the world.
- rchaud 8y agoWhy would the US care? There's no political capital to be gained by coming out against a policy that will likely make US software and surveillance firms rich.
- jrs95 8y agoNo, it won't. It will enable India to cut out U.S. service providers as much as they want. That hurts us more than economically, it reduces our governments ability to gather intelligence there as well. This level of state control if the internet is a very bad thing for the U.S. even if you don't take any humanitarian considerations into account.