The current Indian leadership is somewhat leading democracy towards the path of dictatorship style.
As an outsider: A LOT more than ‘somewhat’, you guys are at a full gallop.
But so are we, which is how I spotted it.
Australia too, and Brittan. Most of the world is on an authoritarian bent right now.
Australia is not on an authoritarian bent right now. We ended ours already.
In a good or bad way? I don’t follow Aus news
Good.
We had been on one for a while but it’s over and the right wings got very little support these days.
Great to hear!
Not according to the news but I hope everything turns out ok.
Also: Fuck You for Rupert Murdoch. Why couldn’t you keep him contained?
What news exactly?
But haven’t you heard? The common man is but an animal that needs to be hearded. All this surveillance is purely to the benefit of the ignorant masses. \s
Seems to be a common theme around the world at the moment
In times of crisis, the people feel fear.
People who feel fear want a loud tall angry person that makes them feel safe.
Authoritarians have been taking advantage of that since before written history.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
Somewhat?
Goosestepping at frightening speeds more like it.
So it looks like protonmail is actually legit then
Nothing like a failed government wringing attempt to bolster trust.
Maybe the IT ministry of India can do something about all the scam call centers and Botnets running out of sector 5…
Man! I dont know what our IT ministry is smoking but Censorship has become their goto to ruin their reputaion and show of their lack of IT knowledge.
Fuck modi
Fuck modi
Because they cannot randomly snoop? Fuck the Tamil Po po.
Imagine thinking you can make encryption illegal. Fucking imbeciles.
Protonmail is just a bloody email. If you think you can block it, you’re wrong.
They can block the domain at the national level though. People that use their own domains with proton’s service might be fine and pass through, but it would likely be pretty easy to simply filter out all of proton’s own domains (@proton.me, @protonmail.com, @pm.me, @proton mail.ch) instead of trying to block the underlying protocols.
Please explain. If someone uses a VPN, wouldn’t they still be able to access their email via the website and send/receive emails normally? The Indian government blocked all pornography IIRC some years(?) ago, but that hasn’t really stopped anyone. Won’t this also work the same way?
There are some layers to this.
First, it’s that working through VPN is too technical for most of the population. Just think of the many people running without adblockers, or people who leave their lamps and chargers plugged in branched power extenders forever instead of opening up their wall and rewiring to get more outlets in a better place. if something is important and becomes inaccessible, like porn, people will learn what they need to get around the block. If there are easily available alternatives - as there is with email - those will be picked instead. This effectively cuts off over 90% of the users.
Then there is the case where it makes you more prosecutable if you do work around the blocking, even legally. I know this doesn’t sound fair, but it is to some degree necessary to make the unclear and muddy parts of the justice systems work. There is “innocent until proven guilty”, but “proven guilty” can sometimes be very subjective and based on circumstance, witness claims and “character profile”. if there is lack of clear evidence, but strong indicators that you did in fact collaborate illegally on insider trading, it will make a difference whether there is lack of evidence because the police could read all your communication and find nothing, or lack of evidence because you use encryption, VPNs and tend to burn all written notes you make at the end of the day.
I think so?
If you’re a paying user, Proton Mail Bridge is supposed to automatically work around your government trying to block it: https://proton.me/blog/anti-censorship-alternative-routing
And if someone uses 8.8.8.8 as their dns (this is the google dns) then they can connect again.
Could block DNS. Like china does.
An indian sim called jio which is in cahoot with the government actually blocks all the vpns is that even legal ? And jio is growing up to be a quiete a monopoly.
Yeah this is kinda worrying.
It is extremely
It’s also being blocked in Turkey for some time.
That is a lot of potential users.