cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11998237
The IT ministry has reportedly decided to issue an order blocking end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. According to a report in Hindustan Times, the government is planning to block the email service at the request of the Tamil Nadu police over a hoax bomb threat sent to at least thirteen private schools in Chennai on February 8. The report says that the decision to block ProtonMail was taken at a meeting of the 69A blocking committee on Wednesday (February 14).
A Proton spokesperson told the publication that the company has received the request from MeitY “a few days ago”. “We are currently working to resolve this situation and are investigating how we can best work together with the Indian authorities to do so. We understand the urgency of the situation and are completely clear that our services are not to be used for illegal purposes. We routinely remove users who are found to be doing so and are willing to cooperate wherever possible within international cooperation agreements,” the spokesperson said.
So if it’s sent with WhatsApp, they’ll ban WhatsApp? That’s the logic here, right?
Did you just license your comment?
He does that on all his posts. I immediately recognize him each time he comments. I don’t know if he’s just trolling or he really thinks it’s gonna keep the LLMs away. In any case, it’s funny as shit.
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that’s amazing lmao
You don’t?
Lol what a madlad
Next time send a letter. Letters will be banned.
let’s ban phones next guys
and brains too, very dangerous
Can’t have those things being used unregulated or unmonitored
we should make like a scoring system that (without human involvement) determines what brains are the best and worst behaved, thus more likely to benefit their leaders. we could design our society to keep people so preoccupied on making their score better (through things not beneficial to themselves whatsoever) that they don’t have enough time to think about how completely alone and manipulated they feel (we don’t want them feeling that :). maybe down the road this score could be used for good things like improving the economy (selling access to third parties) and handling food and resource concerns (automated death row enrollment)
We’ll make it AI trained on all the “best” citizens, fully automatic!
I hope they ban WhatsApp if anyone sends a bomb threath trough WhatsApp
You mean the fascist Indian government? Yeah, they can get blasted.
useless, unless they block protonVpn too
Jio aldready does that
Other than Jio, idrk know of any ISP that does that
Btw Internet Freedom Foundation (or the IFF) filed several RTI requests (RTI = Request to information) regarding this situation. If anyone wants to follow their progress then here’s their Mastodon account: https://mastodon.world/@internetfreedom@mas.to
The IFF is a highly trustworthy and well respected organization that fights for Indians digital rights and democratic freedoms. They’ve done a lot of good work over the years, they even helped VLC to get unblocked when it was banned in India.
Here’s their toot mentioning the situation with Proton Mail: https://mastodon.world/@internetfreedom@mas.to/111935324571240375
Well that’s definitely one option, I guess…
lolol
