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India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police

by pendu on 2/4/21, 7:31 AM with 14 comments

• by meibo on 2/4/21, 11:21 AM

  Since authoritarian governments noticed that this is something they can actually do, it seems as if it's becoming more and more popular. Will be interesting to see when this first happens in an European or American country.

• by 2Gkashmiri on 2/4/21, 11:29 AM

  someone who has been suffering for over 500 days now because of india's shutdown of my internet access, its only a matter of time that they taste their own medicine. internet clampdown in kashmir was and is being advertised as a fight against "anti national propaganda" disregarding the real world loss and suffering such blockades are causing but when it comes to themselves, its "protecting democracy". my ass.

• by ncmncm on 2/4/21, 8:36 AM

  "... clash with police" almost always means "are viciously attacked by police".

• by villgax on 2/4/21, 9:46 AM

  Coz screw everyone else in that vicinity studying/working/whatever with mobile internet.

• by villgax on 2/4/21, 9:45 AM

  MPs from the ruling party were bemoaning when Twitter was enforcing ToS a few backs. And now they have no stance on cutting the entire access to internet just because of protests.

• by reacharavindh on 2/4/21, 12:34 PM

  Is it another risk that needs to be factored into critical services? For example hospital systems that rely on network any essential medical services(like remote labs or such)..

• by known on 2/6/21, 7:58 AM

  This is why in 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar demanded a separate country to 300 million Aborigines in India;

  https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manusmriti

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history

• by 1cvmask on 2/4/21, 2:46 PM

  What do we do about the Internet companies who are also censorship platforms. Should India censor the censorers as well?

  The authoritarian government of English Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to cut off the Blackbery messenger service during the London riots/protests.

  https://www.prweek.com/article/1084907/david-cameron-comes-f...

  The French government of authoritarian Macron (the aspirational dictator):

  https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/13/tech/french-hate-speech-s...

  Google (Youtube) censoring an academic censorship conference:

  http://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/02/04/not-the-onion-aca...

  So we should have a discussion on authoritarian companies like we do on authoritarian governments like the UK and France and Germany where there is no free speech.

  And lets not forget the authoritarian (under both Obama and Trump) US and UK governments in torturing the news publisher Julian Assange.