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They hide behind the tech that these laws are threatening to take down.
It's going to hurt everyone, regardless of their political loyalties or faith.
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But those are the "experts" from the West. They believe that censoring Trump was correct but a country who wants to save it's sovereignty is incorrect and should not happen. It goes against their narrative.
Champions of free expression wants to grant more power to Jack and his cohort than to the democratically elected Government because Governments are corrupt but Jack is not. How Ironic?
> the democratically elected Government
The democratically elected government was elected for a million different reasons, but their proficiency at managing social media networks was not one of them. And, you know, controlling every single social network is just a bit more dangerous than controlling one.
These law may be bad but tell me why social media giants should be allowed to have their own censorship over the law of sovereign countries?
And seeing the wannabe fascists in power today in India, I'd rather trust a tech giant over this regime anyday
These law may be bad but tell me why social media giants should be allowed to have their own censorship over the law of sovereign countries?
Can you give an example?
In General these social media giants are extremely liberal towards Iran and China but they are eager to ban Trump and trample anyone not agreeing with idealogical standing of their staff.
[1] https://qz.com/africa/1955331/facebook-takes-down-pro-museve...
These law may be bad but tell me why social media giants should be allowed to have their own censorship over the law of sovereign countries?
Because they are private owners of that platform? And seeing the wannabe fascists in power today in India, I'd rather trust a tech giant over this regime anyday
For people outside India, here's what you can expect to see in terms of comments in this thread:
- New accounts defending the government
- People saying things like "stop interfering in India's business you Western people"
- Badmouthing Mozilla with dysfunctional arguments against things
- People bringing up examples like "but XYZ did the same, I don't see why this government gets all the blame"
- Outright saying racist things against non-Indians
Basically anything and everything to justify the actions Mozilla thinks are bad.
I don't know how it looks like from outside, but things have been pretty bad. Google "IT Cell" with the country name.
TLDR: It almost feels like a dystopia, and this is another step to make that happen.
Stupid people making laws for the things that they don't fully understands.
Think twice before calling law makers stupid , that too the eminent layers of the country with 1.5 Billion people and worlds biggest democracy. With what kind of preconceived opinion you think that "things that they don't fully understands." This is racism at its peak. And can you even understand the article attached which is in hindi? If you would have , you could have made a reasonable argument here rather than mak…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
But those are the "experts" from the West. They believe that censoring Trump was correct but a country who wants to save it's sovereignty is incorrect and should not happen. It goes against their narrative.
Champions of free expression wants to grant more power to Jack and his cohort than to the democratically elected Government because Governments are corrupt but Jack is not. How Ironic?
There is asymmetry in information warfare.
The media giants are not exactly neutral and are already involved in content vetting.
India still has an independent judiciary, and the democratically elected government has the mandate to regulate.
Well the power is stripped away from unregulated social media giants, so the feeble dependents (Mozilla) are raging on that how it will “harm” internet and “curtail” freedom. Play stupid games and win stupid prices. No govt will surrender sovereignty and media control. Just because US is dumb enough to completely surrender itself to Social media megatech companies that doesn’t mean everyone else wants to.
> Play stupid games and win stupid prices. No govt will surrender sovereignty and media control. Why should government control the media ? That makes no sense. Most of the social media giants lose money on their India operations while giving poor Indians an opportunity to have a better platform to express themselves. India has virtually seen a one party rule since independence, that too by a single family who could b…
The foreign social media sites have political agenda blatantly well “foreign”.
Media houses are strictly regulated and have to abide much stringent criteria for reporting or an oped.
It’s about control it was in the best interest of these tech firms to be “neutral” before they captured the entire public discourse space. That is clearly not the case now, They have infinitely more power than they had before and even more power than the sovereign government in many many countries.
Some governments are trying to protect their (digital) sovereignty through regulation.