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India village goes offline daily to help people talk

by m33k44 on 10/11/22, 9:01 AM with 9 comments

• by soulofmischief on 10/11/22, 12:01 PM

  It's easy to romanticize this decision from a distance, but it's actually quite authoritarian and a bad take at solving the tech addiction problem.

• by Bakary on 10/11/22, 2:25 PM

  People turn to the internet when real life is not very stimulating. Banning the internet does not remove that problem.

  That being said, it's a small village, and it's only for a few hours. I find the measure authoritarian, but then again my context is that of individualism and urban Western culture. The village did agree to it in a communal sense, and being less reliant on entertainment could make life better there. We would have to know about more about the community and its inhabitants.

• by jp0d on 10/11/22, 12:19 PM

  I think adults shouldn't have to be told what's bad and what's not. Not to mention that it's almost impossible to enforce and it shouldn't be anyway!