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The issue is that India has a body of hand picked bureaucrats, who have the authority to both target and ban platforms they cannot control or spy on. The artic

The issue is that India has a body of hand picked bureaucrats, who have the authority to both target and ban platforms they cannot control or spy on. The article clearly states that all was a hoax and there weren't any bombs. The Indian government is setting up a nice slippery slope here for total political control of the Internet. Perhaps ProtonMail would be better off if they just pulled out of the country.

alephnerd 3y ago
> issue is that India has a body of hand picked bureaucrats, who have the authority to both target and ban platforms they cannot control or spy on Agreed. Indian jurisprudence has not kept up and is still stuck in an authoritarian mindset found in the Colonial British legal system (same problem in Pakistan, Malaysia, Kenya, and Singapore as well btw) > setting up a nice slippery slope here for total political control of the Internet The Indian government has always had the authority to control electronic communication due to the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 [0] and it's equally authoritarian successor the Telecommunications Act, 2023 [1]. India always has been, and sadly, always will be an Illiberal Democracy, and for the exact same reasons that Malaysia, Kenya, and Pakistan will be as well. It's the original sin of the British Colonial legal system. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Telegraph_Act,_1885 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Telegraph_Act,_1885 [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act,_2023 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act,_2023