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Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

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Re: Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

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Post by indie_india_dev »

nomoreusernames wrote: post #68
indie_india_dev wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This move is to counter Chinese apps which pump user data and other sensitive information to their government.

india has a lot of muslims, and muslims are not happy with the ummah being put into concentration camps. seems logical that a country with one of the largest muslim populations in the world, in the largest democracy in the world would start protesting against china.

This move is less about muslims and more about countering china's recent aggression in the border as pointed out in other comment. Chinese are occupying sizable Indian land since the pandemic broke and has been involved in unprovoked aggression in the border. This move is more of a soft ball approach to counter those aggression.

Re: Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

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Post by Pick-A-Hill2019 »

t_minus_3 wrote: post #32
thatguy0900 wrote: post #4

I wonder how long it will be until every country just has its own segregated internet. Will it happen on its own for economic reasons or will it take a real war that involves massive hacking attacks from both sides?

It all started with great firewall of china, didn't it ? The segregation of internet for political purposes has been there for number of years. (aka. china blocks FB,Google and wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... ). rest of the world is catching up to their playbook

In my opinion it started earlier than that and began with the Five Eyes hoovering up data. This lead to the realization of 'huh, if we can do it to others, others might be able to do it to us'.

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Post by vvwvvwvvw »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #18
vvwvvwvvw wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd actually prefer China to keep its population's intel from the west, even if it means getting backlashes like this.

I think the closer we allow our peoples to be, the less likely it is that we will ever fight. IMO the great firewall of China is a stumbling block in the path to world peace.

A world peace as dictated by the US? No thanks.

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Post by Quarrelsome »

vvwvvwvvw wrote: post #84
Quarrelsome wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the closer we allow our peoples to be, the less likely it is that we will ever fight. IMO the great firewall of China is a stumbling block in the path to world peace.

A world peace as dictated by the US? No thanks.

I feel like you're making the mistake that the governments represent the people here. The peace is between the people, not the governments, its the governments that want to fight and want to keep the people apart so they don't realise the peace.

If we all know someone everywhere in the world then how will our governments convince us to attack them if our friends live there?

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Post by Quarrelsome »

antepodius wrote: post #31
Quarrelsome wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the closer we allow our peoples to be, the less likely it is that we will ever fight. IMO the great firewall of China is a stumbling block in the path to world peace.

1930s Germany didn't hate the japanese, despite them being very different from them (appearance, culture). Instead, they hated the German/european jews, who were basically visually indistinguishable.

it was a few that pushed that hatred. Hatred is usually engineered as a distraction for a crime. Usually those committing the crime and pushing the hatred are very close.

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Post by troysk »

legolas2412 wrote: post #61
howlgarnish wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I last used Lalamove to ship some furniture home from IKEA. I'm not entirely sure what the CCP wants to do with this information, but they're welcome to have it.

One, i for one would not welcome having an ethno-centric authoritarian state spying on me. I certainly wouldn't be happy if say the Nazis Germany or the stasi were spying in india. Your response is very similar to "I've got nothing to hide" argument for government spying. Second, just because lalamove didn't do anything ontoward for you, doesn't mean that chinese companies don't spy on anyone. Maybe you should look a…

But modiji already knows that thanks to RBI and your payment gateway which are bound by law to share the information. So do many more trackers, thanks to agreeing to the ToS, who will sell that data to the highest bidder and then again and again. :)

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Post by vvwvvwvvw »

ericjang wrote: post #69
AntiImperialist wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree! In these games, you only need one player who plays foul and the rules have to be changed for everyone. Having said that, The Great Firewall is the best thing CCP has done to protect itself, by a long shot. Had it not done so, China would be, at best, full of riots and uprisings and protests everywhere as foreign interests mobilized locals to act against the CCP using anti-CCP propaganda in their social media.

are you sure that would happen? Make no mistake, I get that Western powers do have cultural and economic agendas (McDonald republics and such). But if you look at Japan and South Korea, they didn't really have significant protests or any "installed leaders".

The Japanese was not projected to be big enough of a population to be a threat to the US.

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Post by yumraj »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #21
freebuju wrote: post #10

Data is the new oil and India is just now fully recognizing how equivalent it is to an Iraq-style reserve; in this digital economy

> Data is the new oil This is a bad analogy. Oil is a commodity. Data are not. Oil is extractive. You can fly in tech and talent, pump oil, keep the rulers happy and not concern yourself with the local population. You can’t do that with data—its value, for advertising and influencing, is linked to the population’s productivity and power. Finally, data are ephemeral in a way oil isn’t. You can’t barrel up bytes in the…

Data is the new oil refers to that data, like oil, is abundant and by itself has limited value, but when data is analyzed, as in oil is refined, it unlocks tremendous value.
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