This goes beyond "just" social content, other types of data are also involved. I don't understand this policy direction. In the cases I've been personally invo

This goes beyond "just" social content, other types of data are also involved. I don't understand this policy direction. In the cases I've been personally involved with, it added significant costs to comply to move processing and storage onto Indian territory data centers that are run by large US corporate cloud vendors anyways. If you're large enough, it doesn't matter. If your use case serves a small enough long tail where it ends up on the wrong side of that added cost burden cutoff, then it matters. And I think that is unfortunate, because I see lots of Indian innovation happening inside that long tail, and such restrictions disadvantage the smaller scale efforts where the novel propositions seem particularly rich. But perhaps I simply don't have sufficient data and perspective, so I'd welcome Indians closer to the action to help me understand why this is in India's interests. If I had to guess, I suspect the thinking is similar to China's: it is too strategic an area to give up, and India has enough population where it doesn't matter they are ring fenced into a walled garden as "only" the domestic market is big enough to stand within its own island market.