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In countries like India (which is a police state), it is not possible to get a phone/SIM/internet connection without giving your government ID and photograph.
by middleclick 12y ago
In countries like India (which is a police state), it is not possible to get a phone/SIM/internet connection without giving your government ID and photograph.
I am not sure how it can work for most countries where you don't need to give any ID and disposable SIM cards are cheap.
- bad_user 12y ago> disposable SIM cards are cheap One disposable SIM card is cheap. In Romania it's about $5, coming with initial credit on it as well. But multiply by 1000 and then you're talking about $5000 versus zero, plus the hassle of verifying each of those accounts. And because it has been a practice to sell cheap calls by VoIP services piggybacking on special offers for PrePay SIM cards, the GSM operators now have protections of their own, so it will be expensive to automate this.
- denzil_correa 12y agoPersonally, the Twitter policy is good from an Indian perspective. The number of political trolls are countless and one would be literally hounded if you have an alternate opinion.