3 ms·

Censorship in India isn't new. The usual modus operandi is to shutdown the internet. 4G mobile services were banned in Kashmir for 550 days [0]. The objectiv

Censorship in India isn't new. The usual modus operandi is to shutdown the internet. 4G mobile services were banned in Kashmir for 550 days [0]. The objective is largely to control the dissemination of news. The government had recently amended laws to govern social media giants including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter [1]. These laws were introduced during the protests against the farm laws when government had requested Twitter to take down a number of accounts: > The new rules come on the heels of a tense standoff between Twitter and the Indian government. Twitter reinstated several accounts that the government had ordered it to take down for using what it called "incendiary and baseless" hashtags related to farmers protesting against new agricultural reforms. The platform ultimately took down hundreds of accounts and partially restricted others, but drew a line by refusing to block accounts of journalists, activists and politicians. The public policy directory at Facebook had opposed applying the company’s hate-speech rules to a politician from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party who had in posts called Muslims traitors [2]. > The WSJ article said Das had told staff that applying hate-speech rules to politicians close to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “would damage the company’s business prospects in the country.” [0] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/india-restores-4g-mobile-internet-kashmir-550-days-75722711 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/india-restores-4... [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/tech/india-twitter-facebook-social-media-guidelines/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/tech/india-twitter-facebo... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive-idUSKCN25F1VW https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive-...

PicassoCTs 5y ago
Its high time, a slow, authoritarian resistant, mesh net infrastructure standard is developed, were travelling people become the data carriers for requests from cut off regions. Nobody knows what s/he carries, and it can only be decrypted by the receiver. Routing could be done by likelihood of organization association. Organizations are cellphone-proximity structures, formed by popular vote of each member validated with its history. If you claim to regularly fly to hongkong, somebody on a busstation might transfer to your phone via BT a encrypted documentation, all even with plausible deniability, if part of the meshnet is a friendly virus. If your behaviour does not correspond to your actual behaviour, it gets written as a sink into a public ledger. Imagine the data-organism taking shape in such a mesh-net. Classes in a university are constituted by the lecturer joining the class, the ever changing setup in a bus is constituted by the bus-driver. Its like providing a reliable behaviour prediction, makes you a reliable routing predictor for the data hoping from phone to phone. I predict three hops to the train-station, near a household router, which is regularly in contact with X.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
  https://apnews.com/article/366a717b2c1b9a677fcbd533e9b225c2 https://apnews.com/article/366a717b2c1b9a677fcbd533e9b225c2 Read this. These guys had to actually smuggle their photos out of the area because the oppressive government would not have let them otherwise. These powerful photos are a reminder to what a nation state can do to suppress dissent but as you can see, defiance is on an another level

PicassoCTs 5y ago

Its high time, a slow, authoritarian resistant, mesh net infrastructure standard is developed, were travelling people become the data carriers for requests from cut off regions. Nobody knows what s/he carries, and it can only be decrypted by the receiver. Routing could be done by likelihood of organization association. Organizations are cellphone-proximity structures, formed by popular vote of each member validated with its history. If you claim to regularly fly to hongkong, somebody on a busstation might transfer to your phone via BT a encrypted documentation, all even with plausible deniability, if part of the meshnet is a friendly virus. If your behaviour does not correspond to your actual behaviour, it gets written as a sink into a public ledger. Imagine the data-organism taking shape in such a mesh-net. Classes in a university are constituted by the lecturer joining the class, the ever changing setup in a bus is constituted by the bus-driver. Its like providing a reliable behaviour prediction, makes you a reliable routing predictor for the data hoping from phone to phone. I predict three hops to the train-station, near a household router, which is regularly in contact with X.

2Gkashmiri 5y ago
https://apnews.com/article/366a717b2c1b9a677fcbd533e9b225c2 https://apnews.com/article/366a717b2c1b9a677fcbd533e9b225c2 Read this. These guys had to actually smuggle their photos out of the area because the oppressive government would not have let them otherwise. These powerful photos are a reminder to what a nation state can do to suppress dissent but as you can see, defiance is on an another level