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[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 112 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When Russia sought to ban PM in their country they used the same excuse as India (fake bomb threats). However, understanding that this can be done via different email services, just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

+1

just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

They're far from being the sole countries scared about citizens safekeeping any semblance of online privacy (hi from France, EU)

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 months ago

Sorry to hear about France. It's really worse in France regarding your freedom online. Ironically.

[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

They even tried to restrict VPN companies by passing a bill that forces them to keep logs. Proton was one of the companies that packed up and left. Good VPN companies don't have servers in India.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

We need to make tech that is useful for overthrowing dictatorships

[–] matto@lemm.ee 86 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like it. This means that Proton actually works and they have no way to steal your information.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 22 points 2 months ago

Right. Couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. Especially since the company has been taking a lot of Ls recently.

[–] AbaixoDeCao@lemm.ee 34 points 2 months ago

Just tell Modi that Proton's CEO is a Trump endorser.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 29 points 2 months ago

This is a great ad to use proton!

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How? You can access it through Tor and other proxies.

[–] washipp@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its usually somehow possible to evade such bans, but not every citizen knows about proxies and how to properly use them. So reducing its accessibility certainly hurts India.

[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure I'm not Indian. But we should see it as a war against encryption

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 9 points 2 months ago

It kind of is war against encryption. I generally say western media covers Indian government in unfair bad light, but this is exactly the type of bad light coverage I support. Call out the actual stupidity from the government.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

No need for anything extra proton already comes with alternate routing

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

India is actually awesome Mohdi on the other hand…..

[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

*Modi. But yes ... he's kind of a snowflake. Never had a press conference in 11 years, except when he was forced to outside India.

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Ah sorry I thought there was an h in there. Most right wingers are the biggest fucking snowflakes, they sure know how to dish it out but can’t take any.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I bet he uses the nothing to hide nothing to fear line all the time though, just not for himself.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

true.. but at the same time India is slowly following China & Russia in terms of their human rights, privacy violation and "open" internet (closed).

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yes Mohdi is a typical strong man idiot.