as always, india beat china to the punch by starting their own "volunteer program" https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/plan-cyber-volunteers-police-indias-in

as always, india beat china to the punch by starting their own "volunteer program" https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/plan-cyber-volunteers-police-indias-internet-draws-criticism https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/plan-cyber-volunteers-... the important bit from the article "Volunteers would help law enforcement identify, report and remove illegal content online. Along with child-abuse violations, the flaggers would search for content deemed to go against the sovereignty or defense of India and state security, as well as “content aimed at disturbing public order.” Volunteers are advised on the ministry site to study Article 19 of the constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of opinion and expression." why should you need a third party mechanism to "report" child abuse violations when every public website/network has a report button and why should the government be first to know about it, even before the network actually hosting it? the government plans to what then? force the website to remove the child abuse content? wouldnt they do it anyways or face lawsuits anywhere in the world? so the reason would be something else and that is where "the flaggers would search for content deemed to go against the sovereignty or defense of India and state security, as well as “content aimed at disturbing public order." comes in. It is always about surveillance and now they are openly doing it, just like china so yeah