Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

The account I have used is more than a year old. I would be harassed by Hindutva goons online and offline if I use my real identity. Maybe also a false police case.

Also Razorpay is not innocent here. They could have disputed the demand in the court. Could have informed the users that their data was shared with government. Could have shared only the transactions that originated in a foreign country.They did none of these.

Also note that donations could not have been done with a foreign credit card. So the intent is to harass the individuals that supported the fack-checking website.

Also, note that the founder and the company has been fans of the current nationalistic government. More reasons why they did not dispute the police demand.

https://twitter.com/shashank_kr/status/1175974410202697728

https://imgur.com/a/ZDRZZ87

I really wish dang locks down this post right now. It's hard to have a logical discussion when certain parties involved in the discussion (like you, currently) sensationalize everything disproportionately.

There is no point in having a petty argument when your whole world view is warped and you don't recognize what's going on in your country. You seem to only be focused on one-quarter of the reality that favors your views. It might be due to willful ignorance, it might be due to bigotry, who knows. I'm not accusing you of any of those, just stating the possibilities.

Either way, it comes to down to savagery in discussions like these and just shows you don't intend to seek the truth rather intend to provoke others around you.

P.S This is not directed at just you. This is directed at others who practice similar ways of getting their point across as you.

Sorry about the rant, but it's annoying and sickening.

This is not the full set of events as it happened.

Hmm. Just a crazy idea. What if nobody went around beheading people for insulting their prophet, AND nobody went around arresting people for insulting their deity? And what if both the beheadings and the bogus arrests were punished by law? And what if nobody were allowed to get away with trying to use either one to justify the other?

I mean, I'm not sure a guy who's been dead for 1200 years AND supposedly has the favor of God needs any protecting, but I'm also not sure than any actual gods are in a lot of need of protecting.

Not that either arrest or beheading would be an appropriate response to an insult to an actually living and vulnerable person, either.

Ok, I've edited the title above to include this detail. (Submitted title was "Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data without court order".)

This is less moderation than we would normally do. Under normal circumstances, we would not allow a submitter to use a text post to put their own tendentious spin on a story like this—especially when the account seems politically driven (e.g. bringing up past partisan tweets to bolster a political case, which is not in the intended spirit of HN). Most probably we'd change the post to point to the most neutral third-party article we could find—or, if someone had already posted one, we might merge this thread into it.

However, the first principle of HN moderation is that we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). So I'm suspending normal practice in favor of this relatively small intervention.

Edit: I suppose I should add that none of what I've written here has to do with the specific details of the story, which I haven't personally looked into. Commenters in this thread seem to be doing a reasonable job of discussing it, with the exception of some veerings into religious/political flamewar, which we've done the usual moderation with.

I suppose I should also add that we haven't downweighted the submission—its ranking is being determined by user voting and flagging. And we haven't pinned any comments, except the moderation replies in flamewar subthreads like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000788 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000252 (standard practice).