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The site's creation is understandable when considering how destabilizing social media has been. Just look at how the US has changed from 2008 to now. Here's a p

The site's creation is understandable when considering how destabilizing social media has been. Just look at how the US has changed from 2008 to now. Here's a particularly relevant quote from the article: "Every social media [platform] has to be responsible, to a certain extent, of what they bring into a country because it defines a lot of things in the country, like youth culture or how citizens of a country react to a situation. "When a company is registered elsewhere and doesn’t take into consideration the nuances of the local culture, I think it can be dangerous. Indian entrepreneurs building for Indian cultural nuances is better than somebody who doesn’t understand the cultural nuances trying to build for India."

lotsofpulp 6y ago
Social media is not destabilizing. The increasing income/wealth/opportunity gap is destabilizing. Social media is just how it can be seen.
OptionX 6y ago
A rather lackluster solution to the power of social media in current society. A nationalist-approved twitter clone seems most likely an euphemism for a politically-controlled echo box to preserve the status quo and foster ultra-nationalism. Reeks of an Indian Parler, and that didn't turn out great.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  I am curious. You complain of the potential for it becoming a "a politically-controlled echo box," but how is that different from the current big social media sites? They are blatantly controlled too.
  - themacguffinman 6y ago
    Government control is a whole different animal to the privatized moderation that is common in the current big social media sites. Private moderators don't receive unfair support from all-powerful state authorities nor do they have the total power of the state to censor beyond their platform. The Indian government is clearly upset that they lack the power to bully Twitter into silencing their critics: > Citing threats to public order, on February 1, Indian authorities appeared to have requested Twitter to suspend or remove dozens of accounts on its platform. Twitter briefly complied but, after public outcry, reinstated the accounts and then refused to remove hundreds more. > After weeks of battling with Twitter, some of India’s most prominent Hindu nationalist politicians took to their social accounts and instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform. “I am now on Koo,” tweeted India’s minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal.

lotsofpulp 6y ago

Social media is not destabilizing. The increasing income/wealth/opportunity gap is destabilizing. Social media is just how it can be seen.

OptionX 6y ago

A rather lackluster solution to the power of social media in current society. A nationalist-approved twitter clone seems most likely an euphemism for a politically-controlled echo box to preserve the status quo and foster ultra-nationalism. Reeks of an Indian Parler, and that didn't turn out great.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
I am curious. You complain of the potential for it becoming a "a politically-controlled echo box," but how is that different from the current big social media sites? They are blatantly controlled too.
- themacguffinman 6y ago
  Government control is a whole different animal to the privatized moderation that is common in the current big social media sites. Private moderators don't receive unfair support from all-powerful state authorities nor do they have the total power of the state to censor beyond their platform. The Indian government is clearly upset that they lack the power to bully Twitter into silencing their critics: > Citing threats to public order, on February 1, Indian authorities appeared to have requested Twitter to suspend or remove dozens of accounts on its platform. Twitter briefly complied but, after public outcry, reinstated the accounts and then refused to remove hundreds more. > After weeks of battling with Twitter, some of India’s most prominent Hindu nationalist politicians took to their social accounts and instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform. “I am now on Koo,” tweeted India’s minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal.