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.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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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)
Sorry to hear about France. It's really worse in France regarding your freedom online. Ironically.
We need to make tech that is useful for overthrowing dictatorships
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.
I like it. This means that Proton actually works and they have no way to steal your information.
Right. Couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. Especially since the company has been taking a lot of Ls recently.
Just tell Modi that Proton's CEO is a Trump endorser.
This is a great ad to use proton!
How? You can access it through Tor and other proxies.
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.
Funny thing is that the more you block, the less these bans matter. Every time a big social media gets blocked, a few more unaware people install a VPN (even if a sketchy one, but that's a completely different story). So pretty much everyone around me uses at least one banned service, which in turn makes all the other bans not matter. The only instance when it does is when they block the previously-working means of ban evasion (like when they blocked Wireguard/Openvpn last year) and people have to find a new one.
Very interesting. Im fortunate in that, Im not in a country that (so far) has not banned a technology I'm using. But definitely, people will always find a way to circumvent a ban.
Not sure I'm not Indian. But we should see it as a war against encryption
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.
No need for anything extra proton already comes with alternate routing
India is bad
India is actually awesome Mohdi on the other hand…..
*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.
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.
I bet he uses the nothing to hide nothing to fear line all the time though, just not for himself.
true.. but at the same time India is slowly following China & Russia in terms of their human rights, privacy violation and "open" internet (closed).
Yes Mohdi is a typical strong man idiot.