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- "Even India" India routinely does total communications blackouts, so the satellite phone ban is unsurprising, in that context. https://news.ycombinator.com/
by perihelions 3y ago
- "Even India"
India routinely does total communications blackouts, so the satellite phone ban is unsurprising, in that context.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701204 ("India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126931 ("India turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972620 ("India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Jammu_and_Kashmir_lockdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Jammu_and_Ka... ("2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown")
If you don't have enough things to worry about: the US has exactly the same legal powers—in fact they're national security powers the President can invoke unilaterally,
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/representatives-propose-bill-limiting-presidential-internet-kill-switch/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/representatives-propose-bi... ("Representatives propose bill limiting presidential internet ‘kill switch’")
- wkat4242 3y ago> If you don't have enough things to worry about: the US has exactly the same legal powers—in fact they're national security powers the President can invoke unilaterally, I'm not in the US so I don't worry about that. But the US doesn't seem to actually use it as India does. And besides I have other communications options if that would happen.