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Content takedown and users’ rights in India

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53 pointsrahuldottech9 comments

Unfortunately, I think this is a global issue and sooner or later most governments are going to be controlling the internet, unless we innovate our way out of this, or make this really, really difficult to do.

May be a global consortium of companies which say that countries that deny free internet access will not get access to those companies? That could go either way, though.

You would get every country banned that way. I am not aware of any state that allows free access to all content.

> May be a global consortium of companies which say that countries that deny free internet access will not get access to those companies? That could go either way, though.

This is a joke right ? Google and Twitter's Orwellian 'silent' censorship has been going on for the past year without the slightest whimper from the people on 'their side'. In India too, Twitter has unabashedly been in favor of the Islamofascists; the supposed 'minorities' whose tyrannical rule nearly destroyed the civilization.

State censorship is dangerous, but censorship by global monopolies, unanswerable to the public is much much worse.

Regardless of who you're for or against, please don't take HN threads further into ideological, nationalistic, or religious flamewar. It's not what this site's for, and destroys what it is for.

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Wouldn't be hard to instantiate mini-internets free of government influence. That said, most who would be inclined to do that don't waste their time on YouTube to begin with.

This story is about India and China already has heavy censorship. That's already ~2B people just there.

Too big a market to ignore.

Take this with internet shut downs every other week and we have a much bigger problem.

Kashmir is without internet for 6months now. "National security"

Repost (to their credit, with a direct link to) of https://theleaflet.in/content-takedown-and-users-rights/ ... might be better to link to the original.

Ok, we've changed to that from https://scroll.in/article/953146/how-india-is-using-its-info....

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