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India is a clown show. They recently banned VLC for piracy.
by Gigachad 4y ago
India is a clown show. They recently banned VLC for piracy.
- ftyhbhyjnjk 4y ago60% politicians hold criminal records. Most are illiterate. Almost all are super corrupt.
- aww_dang 4y agoPolitics rewards dishonesty. All of the incentives are there. What else can be expected? Of course, true believers in Democracy will say, "We'll just vote out the bad ones". How is that working out?
- fafzv 4y agoI'll never get tired of saying it: politicians are the same as the citizens that vote them in. In India they won't vote out corrupt politicians because the citizenry is corrupt itself.
- SanderNL 4y agoLet’s just say education might be an issue.
- fafzv 4y agoIt's cultural, and I'm not sure I agree that it's an issue. Different cultures behave in different ways.
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- Etrnl_President 4y agoSure, blame the corruption on the people; It certainly has nothing to do with a system based on extortion, with no incentives to perform the functions it was allegedly established for, and every incentive to extract as much revenue from the citizenry as possible without a rebellion.
- isanjay 4y agoI think there is some truth in this. Politicians distribute huge sums of corrupt money to poor and lower middle class population just before elections. And your average Indian would love to get a government job that has scope of corruption. All in all you have culture where corruption in normalized.
- Sai_ 4y agoGive the country and its democracy some credit (Indian here). We’ve voted out charismatic leaders, we’ve voted in huge coalitions, we’ve ignored sympathy waves after political assassinations, power transfers have been uniformly peaceful since we gained independence. If this cultural/endemic corruption at work, I think most people in most countries would prefer this to whatever oligarchy, junta, theocracy, ruler-for-life-god-on-earth-ocrasy they suffer under.
- skinnymuch 4y agoIndia should be copying China from the foundation -- since Deng.
- ir123 4y agoEuropean citizens voted in genociders. According to this logic, europeans were also genociders
- alpaca128 4y ago> true believers in Democracy will say, "We'll just vote out the bad ones". How is that working out? Better than no democracy at all. I think anyone can see the problems with it.
- pedrogpimenta 4y agoAs someone said, Democracy is bad but not as bad as the other options.
- copper-float 4y agoWow, that is shocking.
- humanlion87 4y ago> Almost all are super corrupt. And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries?
- isanjay 4y agoYes. because on top of corrupt they are criminals most of them
- InCityDreams 4y ago>And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries? You are not alone - it is kinda similar in other countries. The only thing worse than a politician is someone that voted for them.
- xNeil 4y agoNot exactly. They banned VLC because a bunch of Chinese companies were spreading illegitimate versions of VLC disguised as the real package, and installing spyware alongside the media player. Not the best way to tackle the problem, but I think it's important to know exactly what happened. Also - I think the ban's gone - I just downloaded VLC yesterday. Probably because VideoLAN took the government to court.
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- lightwin 4y agoSo they banned the original source after finding out that there were illegitimate versions of VLC disguised as the real package? How did it solve the problem? Don't you think that after they banned the original, there would have been even more illegitimate versions?
- xNeil 4y agoVery valid point! They banned all VLC impersonators alongside VLC, I believe. Again - definitely not how you solve the problem. I was simply clarifying what had actually happened.
- harrymit907 4y agoThat is exactly what the clown show is about. Say, some Russian hackers are spreading malicious versions of Chrome, so do you go about banning the legitimate Google Chrome. If the government doing that is not a clown I don't know what is.
- suyash 4y agoThis is a foolish argument, the government always try to contact the local representative of that organization so if this were to happen they would get in touch with Google and ask them to investigate why there is malware in Chrome, that would certainly be Google's responsibility and if not handled properly, deserves a ban. The most important thing country needs to do is to protect it's citizens and that is what India is doing.