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Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certa

• Pwnguinz 14y ago
  Not trying to be snarky, but the USA is supposed to be the paragon of freedom and democracy, yet even its government is spying on its own citizen via the NSA. A democracy is no guarantee against a surveillance-expansionist regime, especially when a large portion of the electorate are highly uneducated and below the poverty line, as is the case in India.
• elssar 14y ago
  The idiots in our government are jealous of China & have identified censorship & suppression of freedom as the one thing they can quickly compete with China on
• batista 14y ago
  >Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certain oppressive regimes in the middle east, but India is an actual democracy (maybe with a somewhat high level of corruption.) Democracy in that sense is an empty word. You mean it's a democracy because people get to vote? In the US the democratic part amounts to getting to chose between the same two century old parties, which have heavy corporate backing and dead-ringer platforms. With the main issues (economic policy, foreign policy, educational policy, labour laws) are only debated superficially, reduced to slogans and yes/no decisions. Still, the democratic US snoops on its own citizens, maintains (and demands ISP's maintain) huge backlogs of private data, has the Patriot Act, has private prisons, the list goes on and on...