It’s a private country, they can do whatever they want.
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Will India Ban Twitter?
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#12Right now I'm listening to a report on NPR about how India, the world's largest democracy, leads the world in the number of times it has shut down Internet access.
As this will inevitably (sadly) become the norm, I fully expect we'll see the same in the U.S. in relatively short time. Hopefully that's too pessimistic; but, to be prepared -- what is the state of the art of HAM-based networking in the U.S.?
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#13https://www.indiatoday.in/india/jammu-and-kashmir/story/sout... They just banned internet for million or so people in Kashmir. Outright internet vban, twitter ban is nothing
Yes considering all the news we see about Hong Kong. It is surprising that Kashmir isn't covered despite being in worse situation for more than a year, over a similar issue.
HK used to be more stable and is a highly visible global node that is well connected, exports cultural products, and is home to foreign offices for a lot of companies. It’s very easy to cover HK given that, say, the NYT has been there for the past few decades and has staffers who have directly observed changes throughout that time.
My impression of Kashmir is that the situation hasn’t been positive for a very long time, and all the other factors are either less true or don’t apply.
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#14Can someone summarize the issue? The article is behind a paywall.
The current party in power in India is removing minimum purchase prices for produce. This is akin to removing minimum wage for farmers in a market where it would be financial ruin for most farmers and give way to corporate farms leading the way.
The farmers were peacefully protesting and the government has reacted by attacking them quite brutally etc.. recently they've also issued FIRs (effectively arrest warrants) for foreigners who've voiced their support for the farmers on Twitter.
Generally the government is trying to keep exposure to these events as low as possible. Twitter is obviously not beholden to their wishes.
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#15I don't think they'll ban Twitter. This isn't the first time ruling party is unhappy with it. Govt. would not want it to be escalated as it is already in a soft war with China and would need USA's support in it.
They managed to get TikTok out of the country. IMO, China has just as much influence in India as the US, if not more. They recently banned Internet access in several parts of Delhi ( the capital ) as well, during the farmer protests on Republic day. This did not even make the news. I know because I live here.
Moreover, the bulk of the population won't really be affected by a Twitter ban - they aren't on it, and make most of the voter pool.
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#16https://www.indiatoday.in/india/jammu-and-kashmir/story/sout... They just banned internet for million or so people in Kashmir. Outright internet vban, twitter ban is nothing
Isn't it coming back from midnight Friday - https://thewire.in/rights/jammu-kashmir-internet-4g
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#17https://www.indiatoday.in/india/jammu-and-kashmir/story/sout... They just banned internet for million or so people in Kashmir. Outright internet vban, twitter ban is nothing
I just read that it is being restored from today. Definitely a step in the right direction.
https://theprint.in/india/governance/4g-mobile-internet-serv...
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#18Can someone summarize the issue? The article is behind a paywall.
The current party in power in India is removing minimum purchase prices for produce. This is akin to removing minimum wage for farmers in a market where it would be financial ruin for most farmers and give way to corporate farms leading the way. The farmers were peacefully protesting and the government has reacted by attacking them quite brutally etc.. recently they've also issued FIRs (effectively arrest warrants) f…
1. The protest on the republic day was not peaceful. Some groups among protesters hoisted a different flag on the Red fort, Delhi
2. Not all farmers across the country are protesting. Some are. Mainly Punjab, Haryana, few from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, Rajasthan.
3. It's true that the government has not been totally transparent. But they put a stay on implementation of farm laws for the next 18 months and offered to continue further discussion. However, the protesters continued the protests and vandalised Red fort, a historic building in New Delhi. The protests did become violent on the Republic day where the police were injured.
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#19Sadly, it is unrealistic to hope that my country will also ban Twitter.
Details of the software behind an online forum make a big difference to how the forum affects its participants and the society they are part of. It would take a long article to begin to describe exactly how the details of Twitter are bad, but as a start we might notice how difficult it is for a reader to find the responses to a particular contribution (tweet) and how difficult it is for the writer of a response to predict which readers will see the response -- making Twitter a worse tool for arriving at collective truth than are most online fora or at least worse than most pre-social-media online fora. We might notice that (probably for complicated reasons, perhaps partly because it is a bad tool for online truth-finding) experience has revealed that Twitter is more likely to assist in the formation of an online mob than other online fora are.
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#20Can someone summarize the issue? The article is behind a paywall.
The current party in power in India is removing minimum purchase prices for produce. This is akin to removing minimum wage for farmers in a market where it would be financial ruin for most farmers and give way to corporate farms leading the way. The farmers were peacefully protesting and the government has reacted by attacking them quite brutally etc.. recently they've also issued FIRs (effectively arrest warrants) f…
It is more nuanced. The peaceful protestors got violent. They attacked the Red fort and flew flags for a separatist movement after bringing down the Indian flag.
Such an attack on democracy should not be allowed.