India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
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Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#2As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#3Free sounds good, but of course it isn't really "free", stuff is being built and the people who build it, and the people who makes the parts and so on, are all getting paid. You can't put a billion people online "for free". So who is paying? Obviously the people themselves, eventually. India would be wise to ensure the profits made by American companies are taxed in India. This is the mistake the EU made and why Google, Amazon, Apple et al are laughing all the way to their offshore banks.
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#4This is great, but I do have some concerns:
- The support for Modi's "Digital India" by Facebook looks like a rebranded Internet.org, which will have serious implications on net neutrality in India, affecting not only the users but also Indian Internet startups.
- Packaging FB/Google/Twitter services for free consumption is unlikely to encourage more content creation from the masses.
- Our IT Act, often in conjunction with our blasphemy and defamation laws, has repeatedly been used to silence citizens who dared to voice their opinions on the Internet. Let us please not be blind consumers of "curated" news tweets. Let us also fight for a right to create content, without being censored, on the Free Web.
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#5As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
As an Indian, I'm curious. Do you have a blog with your experience in China?
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#6As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
Impossible in what sense?
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#7This is great, but I do have some concerns: - The support for Modi's "Digital India" by Facebook looks like a rebranded Internet.org, which will have serious implications on net neutrality in India, affecting not only the users but also Indian Internet startups. - Packaging FB/Google/Twitter services for free consumption is unlikely to encourage more content creation from the masses. - Our IT Act, often in conjunctio…
"Our IT Act, often in conjunction with our blasphemy and defamation laws, has repeatedly been used to silence citizens who dared to voice their opinions on the Internet. Let us please not be blind consumers of "curated" news tweets. Let us also fight for a right to create content, without being censored, on the Free Web."
- Indeed. The media, SV, India and the states are backing Modi's campaign as you've said. I was surprised reading the article below (although not super surprised given the Indian-SV relationship being so strong at the moment) that these more concerning points you touch on haven't been highlighted. Whilst from a technology perspective, this is no doubt a triumph for modi and his team, the true benefit for Indians in India will only be seen when laws are reformed to mirror the freedom the campaign stresses comes out of technology. This is a start, more needs to be done.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34376984
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#8As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
Care to share more details on how things have changed?
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#9I wish they'd talk more about net neutrality at the Facebook Townhall Q&A session that concluded recently.
Re: India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
#10As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
High labor cost and the great firewall