Public sentiment is deeply divided on the Indian government's regulation of social media. While a segment supports the measures as necessary for tackling misinformation and ensuring national security, another significant portion views these regulations as a potential threat to freedom of speech and an avenue for increased censorship, reminiscent of authoritarian practices. This duality in sentiment reflects both nationalistic pride and apprehension about governmental overreach.

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People need to start calling out the fake shit.

Cub_Millenial

Jobless people are getting paid for this shit.💩

Sad_Cellist1591

Another day on the internet. I wonder who’s sponsoring all this.

NewWheelView

You know who's behind this. Indian govt is shite when dealing with fake news n derogatory stuff.

AdTemporary829

If only there was a way on twitter to ensure legitimate accounts were verified by twitter and given a special symbol next to their name vs fake ones with no such symbol, making it easier for the common user to distinguish between an official account and an unofficial one... 

Thanks Elon, ya fucking donkey.

BasilicusAugustus

No official account talks in the way that account did lol. Imagine diplomatic accounts saying "what y'all think? Agree or naah? Comment below" xD

vysevysevyse

Twitter is bs now. Such massive platform can't they make something to make govt verified accounts starnd out?

Ashamed-Key7312

Pakis keep assuming multiple abbu heritage Ids.

Unusual-Strawberry24

Neal Mohan, Elon Musk and amny others are really having fun time seeing how a-holes of every country fighting over petty issues while they are making a fat paycheque every year...No doubt why SM companies promote tomfoolery in their apps...It gives them free entertainment and tons of personal data

Ok-Koala-5671

Deal with your shit alone, we don’t need no relations to a country that gave up their own values to the Islam. We will watch from here.

tentothirty

Porkistan has a smear campaign our leaders amare too useless to care

giga_chad-420

It's simple. When someone says kashmir in any post where it should not been said, you know who is behind that shit

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I think it will leave a big room for the govt to manipulate this law if it comes to practice. I think we should focus more on improving the education system and in increasing literacy rate of the country. This will at least improve the situation in the long run.

ramror777

You most definitely should say censorship is bad and the government is wrong. It’s a slippery slope with censorship, today it’s twitter accounts, tomorrow one might be afraid to express their opinions out loud.

ThinBobcat4047

Honestly, what’s the use of running the world’s largest democracy if you can’t even silence a few pesky questions on social media? Like come on, what's all that surveillance machinery for, just circle jerking?

Oppyhead

Just ask yourself this. In a sovereign country with democratic elections, who do you trust with your rights, your elected government (which you can choose to not elect in the next round), or a foreign company (which you will never have any control or even say in). If its at all possible, think critically. whatever you think is wrong with your government, can be fixed. Since much of "critical thinking" involves criticizing one party, let me be clear that the party has lost in multiple states before someone pitches in with their "speaking truth to the only power they can". But if a company like x decides to randomly stop following our laws while operating and making a profit using our data, who is to say that tomorrow they will not become rogue.

Professional-Put-196

Pakistani here.

And this is absolutely horrible for the democracy. And guess what? Even Pakistani establishment has done exactly that in Pakistan just recently. Pakistani state has banned multiple YouTube channels of the journalists who are critical of Pakistani state and the control of establishment (army) over Pakistan completely. 

This practice is bad for democracy. Even if one believes some news sources are lying and doing propaganda, they still should be given the freedom. Because the people should have freedom to look at all the sources and then make their informed opinions. 

Banning the dissent will only create an echo chamber where the citizens will eventually only believe in the state propaganda because it is the only information available to them.

AbdullahJanSays

The entire Indian mainstream is in their pockets now and people are complaining about few twitter accounts being banned? Too late lol

badmoskharbuja

Let be frank. If you check the dude which are spreading misinformation about India on internet most of them would be indian and of indian origin or From South Asia. 
Second point most of the western media or research organisation which publish garbage about India without any proper research take recent examples of World's Happiness index are somewhere connected to india.
Our govt needs to tackle this. 
Our govt seriously don't understand what is soft power and how handle this misinformation about indian.

Unable-Ad931

They shamelessly accuse that " rape cases are not reported " if the case hasn't been reported , how tf do you know about it ? You created a fact out of thin air based on assumption .....like I could just say " china doesn't report rape cases ", how would china disprove me ?

CartographerOwn3656

always take population into consideration...yes may be there are poorer countries in the world but we are 1.5 billion people...literally every 1.5 out of 7 people in the work is Indian and a large number of it is really poor  
So if someone says , india is poorest ...it's not exactly a lie.

sucker210

Welll they are not entirely wrong ,
Many of us lack civic sense and spit gutka or throw trash into the rivers etc…

🍇 happens in every country but BBC targets us because of their white supremacy mindset.

India in terms of gdp per capita is very poor and comparable to African countries and it will take probably another century to fix that .

20000BCEfan

You don't understand bhai. You are proceeding on the assumption that people care that it is misinformation.

They do not. They prefer believing such misinformation because they need it to justify hating us. But even without it, they would hate us anyway. This is who they are bhai - racists. 

&gt;The government instead of tackling such blatant misinformation and raaciism spreading on social media, only cares about censoring twitter when the govt was exposed by grok AI. They don’t care when India’s reputation is going in the dirt

Govt can do nothing. For all the jibes about IT Cell this, IT Cell that, 90% of the gormint babus assigned to information jobs in India have zero knowledge and zero understanding of the outside world and its narratives. 

Christine Fair once remarked that when she travelled to Pakistan as a US State Department official, Pakistan gave her luxurious lodgings and made her feel important. Because they knew how to control the narrative to get what they wanted from her.

She travelled to India and all she got was a dry lecture from a sweating, pot-bellied old babu in a dusty office. 

Sarkaar has zero awareness. It is the youth of this nation that have to realize the lies being spread about us, and act accordingly.

49thDivision

Dont put everything on govt, private citizens need to step up cuz its impacting them the most. Lets be honest current govt is much better than the other option but they are not the best either, its better to take matter into our hands and act on it.

iamhuman2907

Well, it's just India alone. SM is filled with bots and fake accounts spreading misinformation about almost everything in the world. This is known as psychological and informational warfare. Better get off the internet and explore the real world. 


BTW, how did you come with the 🍇 part ? The data that measures per million basis?

BlueShip123

The US doesn't want another superpower to challenge them. They were completely blindsided by China's sudden emergence because they thought no country could match them (coz 'muricaaaa amirite?!).


They're not gonna take their eyes off India. Not even for a second. It's all politics. Everything is.

complexmessiah7

Maybe they should invest more in stopping the tons of internet scammers there instead of seeing who screwed them out of a few rupees

hahalol412

Canada too. For years now actually since 2011 at least

Stunning_Repair_7483

I don't see how this is enforceable? 

Lets assume the accused uses gmail/ protonmail, the lock to the encrypted email storage is the pwd which only the user knows. The user can simply say he doesn't remember the pwd. 

In the physical world, they can proceed to break the lock. How do you break the SHA256/TLS encryption which is the lock in this case? The only thing I can think of them getting access to, is the metadata that google handles.

It is **impossible** to brute force it and social engineering can take some time to do and may turn out to be completely useless. It seems like this law has made hacking and getting access to the customer's stuff from the org without any court orders legal but other than that this seems pretty useless? 

Ofc, we don't want this to aimply go by because this sets the precedent for future intrusive laws.

lord_lableigh

Proud to see a India related post but also ashamed to see it compensating for its absence in one go. Worst of em all

ThiccStorms

Middle class from India right now: 
erasing e-mails, cleaning WhatsApp and deleting social media accounts!

makumbaria

Three threads here on the same topic, all pointing to the same external link.

Come on.

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UsrHpns4rctct

This appears to be England? US doesn't have a Ministry of Finance.

ivedonestranger

CableBoyJerry

So, which group of lying egomaniacs do we believe?

MalcolmLinair

Hopefully others will link articles with more context. Here's one, not necessarily definitive. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/we-disagree-social-media-platform-x-blocks-some-accounts-following-govt-orders/amp_articleshow/107900621.cms

Local_Izer

It's almost like, we should stop using tech platforms owned by fascists or something?

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budbutler

Of course the fascist propagandist would try to fuck the free press wherever he could. He just tries in India first to see if he can get away with it.

FrogsJumpFromPussy

anyone can make a fake document and submit it with official sounding wording and really wreck some shit..

dontneedaknow

DasbootTX

Reuters shouldn’t even be on X anymore-

belindasmith2112

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