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Content takedown and users’ rights in India
- mlinksva 7y agoRepost (to their credit, with a direct link to) of https://theleaflet.in/content-takedown-and-users-rights/ https://theleaflet.in/content-takedown-and-users-rights/ ... might be better to link to the original.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've changed to that from https://scroll.in/article/953146/how-india-is-using-its-information-technology-act-to-arbitrarily-take-down-online-content https://scroll.in/article/953146/how-india-is-using-its-info....
- raz32dust 7y agoUnfortunately, I think this is a global issue and sooner or later most governments are going to be controlling the internet, unless we innovate our way out of this, or make this really, really difficult to do. May be a global consortium of companies which say that countries that deny free internet access will not get access to those companies? That could go either way, though.
- dependenttypes 7y agoYou would get every country banned that way. I am not aware of any state that allows free access to all content.
- thrwer4234 7y ago> May be a global consortium of companies which say that countries that deny free internet access will not get access to those companies? That could go either way, though. This is a joke right ? Google and Twitter's Orwellian 'silent' censorship has been going on for the past year without the slightest whimper from the people on 'their side'. In India too, Twitter has unabashedly been in favor of the Islamofascists; the supposed 'minorities' whose tyrannical rule nearly destroyed the civilization. State censorship is dangerous, but censorship by global monopolies, unanswerable to the public is much much worse.
- dang 7y agoRegardless of who you're for or against, please don't take HN threads further into ideological, nationalistic, or religious flamewar. It's not what this site's for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jimbob45 7y agoWouldn't be hard to instantiate mini-internets free of government influence. That said, most who would be inclined to do that don't waste their time on YouTube to begin with.
- keanzu 7y agoThis story is about India and China already has heavy censorship. That's already ~2B people just there. Too big a market to ignore.
- airocker 7y agoScroll.in is a hit modi site. Why am I getting downvoted? Show me a page where they write anything pro modi? Technology related bashing is just a way to get into hn and pollute hn.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoTake this with internet shut downs every other week and we have a much bigger problem. Kashmir is without internet for 6months now. "National security"