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Is that significant, though? These nations aren't trying to keep things secret. They just have to keep them out of the day to day thoughts of 95% of their popul

by causi 4y ago

Is that significant, though? These nations aren't trying to keep things secret. They just have to keep them out of the day to day thoughts of 95% of their population. Even trivial measures like a DNS-redirect will be effective in that regard.

brucethemoose2 4y ago
I think they would fail to meet that 90-95% threshold, as India just can't be as physically restrictive as China or Russia. Circumvention measures would proliferate like crazy.
- aliqot 4y ago
  If there's one thing to credit India and its people with, it is the quality of being smart and resourceful.
- sitkack 4y ago
  Also, for all the people employed in tech, their work connection will not be censored.
vkou 4y ago
If you give me the ability to cripple the internet for 50% of the population, I will easily be able to rig an election for you. Hell, in the US, 10% should probably be sufficient.
- snapcaster 4y ago
  Interesting thought. So going further, what specifically would you do?
  - vkou 4y ago
    Blackhole any sites people of the opposing political use for political organization, donations, news, propaganda. As a first pass, you don't even need to block general-purpose platforms like reddit and Twitter and Facebook, you just need to kill the centralized sources of political information. The point of this exercise isn't a full on repression of all dissent, it's just shifting the political window to topics and mouthpieces that are friendly to you. Most people have mainstream opinions, and if you tilt the mainstream landscape towards you, by driving your opponents into high-friction underground echo chambers, a first past the post system lets you turn a close election into a landslide.