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So you are saying the current Indian goverment cares more about the wellbeing of Muslims in Xinjiang than Muslims in India? (I don't want to diminish the awful things going on in Xinjiang, but I think giving the rest of what Modi does this would be more cynically down by the Indian government than you make it out to be.)
How did you arrive to this analysis of his comments?
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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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Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better off? And nobody's saying there can't be indian-made FOSS. Unless you're talking about the government putting its own interests above the people's, which makes sense.
If you look at the list of apps, pretty much all of them requires some kind of back-end. Even if its 100% FOSS, the back end will cost money. Therefore someone has to pay for it somehow and someone will profit. Its obvious to their best interest that the one that profit is an Indian company, with ties to the government.
Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow on its own.
It isn't that simple - Governments require Support, Scale, Stability, and Usability. FOSS lacks in all four, unless someone picks up the Support tab, makes the app scale to several billion people, ensure upgrades don't break functionality, and makes the app actually usable all citizens. As a consequence, the app may be free in theory, but the Support and other contracts cost a lot of money. As it is often said Linux…
Just for background: These actions are targeted against Chinese companies, in the continued battle by Indian government to fight against recent land grab near Himalayas by Chinese Army and long term economic war e.g., New Silk Road, Trade Deficit etc.
This seems like a strange qualification considering the Line of Actual Control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Actual_Control) hasn't changed since 1959. Even after the war of 1962, the Chinese side withdrew back to the 1959 line of control. How does China execute a "land grab" while never crossing the line of control according to Modi? (https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/chinese-troops-did...)
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How did you arrive to this analysis of his comments?
The Government pretty much caused this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Delhi_riots
The irony is that no Muslim got evicted due to CAA, and yet the radical Muslims caused so much violence, and then people like you come to HN to spread that propaganda of Hindutva bad, Modi bad seeking god knows what.
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?
its alive an kicking already
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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
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.