India has passed the Telecom Bill 2023, which means more cracking down on privacy (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by teeforlove@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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Feels great. The bill gives the govt. power to set encryption standards to messaging services like whatsapp, signal, facebook, instagram, etc as per what they deem to be a public threat (Yes, this means they hold power over seeing private messages and acting appropriately). Also this bill was passed in the absence of more than a 100 MP's, who were suspended. its not like Hinduvta dickriders will be effected, this applies to queers, women, lower-castes, Muslims, and any whistleblower/journalist who speaks for them. India is indeed a fascist dictatorship of the comprador-bourgeoisie, it has never been democratic, but now the government is feeling more and more free to let all of the reactionary elements of it out in the open. The education system is also riddled with propaganda, which is visible with comments under news posts understanding it in an entirely wrong way ("We are skipping China and directly heading to North Korea"- they both are more democratic than you will ever be; "Everyone should read 1984"- read revolutionary science, not bullshit anti-communist fiction, which was not even applied to a state like India. In fact Orwell would be jacking off to this if he was alive).

I feel doomerist from time to time, but obviously that won't help me. The only way to go is raising class consciousness and mobilizing people to organize. I can't do that when I'm not even there. It sucks but I'll have to keep fighting.

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[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Okay lmao opening up your nation to major cybersecurity vulnerabilities for the lulz

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

UK is going at it too. It only takes one country to enforce this and we’re done. My prediction: companies stop doing business in those countries.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

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