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As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good luck to you China.
holy shit are we the same person? hit me up at Windows some time. Or wherever.
Free sounds good, but of course it isn't really "free", stuff is being built and the people who build it, and the people who makes the parts and so on, are all getting paid. You can't put a billion people online "for free". So who is paying? Obviously the people themselves, eventually. India would be wise to ensure the profits made by American companies are taxed in India. This is the mistake the EU made and why Goog…
That's the mistake that the EU made? Not taxing American companies enough? Instead of focusing on confiscating wealth from the successful, how about creating a climate where Europeans can create similarly successful businesses?
Also, worth noting that tech is seemingly the one area of regulation / legislation that sees swift and decisive action in favor of the average Indian. But that's due to the sheer noise generated by the empowered digital Indian on such issues.
- Huge pushback on OTT regulation by TRAI (India's FCC) http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/trai-seek...
- Repeal of Section 66A http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32029369 etc.
As someone with a startup that operates in both India and China, I completely agree that India will be the next big thing. Both are messed up in their own ways. The difference is that in India, things are generally getting better. There are exceptions but the trend is moving towards a better internet ecosystem. China on the other hand is a case of how to F * things up. They modernized their tech backbone so quicky hu…
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Care to share more details on how things have changed?
Not yet. Planning to write a small series of posts when I move back, but I do need some time out of this environment before I can judge things with less a biased mentality. Distance is great for that. Will post to HN when I do.
As someone with a startup that operates in both India and China, I completely agree that India will be the next big thing. Both are messed up in their own ways. The difference is that in India, things are generally getting better. There are exceptions but the trend is moving towards a better internet ecosystem. China on the other hand is a case of how to F * things up. They modernized their tech backbone so quicky hu…
Cheers for the insight. How does the request for data on users differ between China and India? Am curious.
It's more the frequency and how the requests are delivered that is different
This is great, but I do have some concerns: - The support for Modi's "Digital India" by Facebook looks like a rebranded Internet.org, which will have serious implications on net neutrality in India, affecting not only the users but also Indian Internet startups. - Packaging FB/Google/Twitter services for free consumption is unlikely to encourage more content creation from the masses. - Our IT Act, often in conjunctio…
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Every expat in China I have met paid a few dollars a month for a VPN and had as much Facebook, Google, YouTube as the rest of us. Are you only referring to Great Firewall when you say that "life here is simply impossible"?
I have 4 (ExpressVPN, VyprVPN, StrongVPN, and a fourth I'll never tell anyone where it is). They do not reliably connect, are prone to attacks from the government and even when they do connect, you'll be throttled into oblivion. Before I discovered Shadowsocks (Chinese went to clouds house and made him remove it from github), my VPN would, within 3-5 minutes, be throttled to about 128k average speed. I would be elate…
Meanwhile in Kashmir, which is an "integral" part of India (apparently) — http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/access-denied-kas...
I was curious so I googled. The ban was lifted. The ban was put into place because people were broadcasting provocative and violent videos showing torture and cutting throats of cows (sacred to Hindus in neighbouring Indian states). Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzSBk6n1olU http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
Edit — Infact, judging by the dress code, the video you've posted is from somewhere in South India (where internet was not banned)