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[-] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

+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)

[-] [email protected] 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

We need to make tech that is useful for overthrowing dictatorships

[-] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 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.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

This is a great ad to use proton!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

No need for anything extra proton already comes with alternate routing

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