• CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    When Russia sought to ban PM in their country they used the same excuse as India (fake bomb threats). However, understanding that this can be done via different email services, just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

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      20 days ago

      +1

      just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.

      They’re far from being the sole countries scared about citizens safekeeping any semblance of online privacy (hi from France, EU)

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    20 days ago

    I like it. This means that Proton actually works and they have no way to steal your information.

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      19 days ago

      Right. Couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. Especially since the company has been taking a lot of Ls recently.

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      20 days ago

      Its usually somehow possible to evade such bans, but not every citizen knows about proxies and how to properly use them. So reducing its accessibility certainly hurts India.

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          19 days ago

          There was a mistake in that comment afaik. It was something where context was missing from the picture which you could have seen on twitter and understand that the CEO is not pro- Trump

          • Proton edited and deleted some of their responses because it made them look even worse. You can find one here: https://archive.ph/quYyb

            Complete delusion believing Trump will “stand up for the little guy”. The GOP is the party that gutted net neutrality after all. They had the Chevron doctrime overturned. The Thiel-Musk funded party standing up for “little tech”? Please.

            The CEO tried to spin it off as “missing context” but the responses show he’s either completely delusional, has been comatose for the past two decades or is just pro-Trump. I can’t look inside his head, but his tacit endorsement of the party actively dismantling US democracy is not something that can really “lack context”.

            Proton, the company, has donated to liberal parties. The CEO seems to be a bit more of the “libertarian” type, that doesn’t seem to mind everything the GOP did in the past years.

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        19 days ago

        *Modi. But yes … he’s kind of a snowflake. Never had a press conference in 11 years, except when he was forced to outside India.

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          19 days ago

          I bet he uses the nothing to hide nothing to fear line all the time though, just not for himself.

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              13 days ago

              WW3 isn’t going to happen. If you had known anything about the India-Pak conflict, you wouldn’t have said that. Look up Pulwama, 2019 and Kargil War.

              The official reason was false bomb threats that happened months ago in some schools in Delhi and other places. Completely unrelated to the conflict in Pahalgam or the strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan Administered Kashmir. The rest is far too ignorant to respond to. See my comment here and do some research. Either way, idgaf. Please don’t ping me again. I’d much rather talk about it with fellow Indian leftists than with people with no understanding of India or Pakistan.

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                  13 days ago

                  You’ll be fine. Your governments won’t wage direct war, they’ll sell weapons. The US called it a ‘Cold War’ while numerous wars directly funded by it were massacring people in the ‘third world’. They’ll call it ‘third world tribalism’ or something stupid like that while we fight pointless wars and you’d be shown news about how nice your country is to not go into war, and how utterly uncivilised and stupid we are while they fund armed groups to aggravate people. Why do you care?