Indian censorship is comically bad and living in this country, seeing day-to-day examples of this is a lot of fun. How shit of a direction this country is taking. Talk about a judge being completely out of touch with how Wikipedia works and functions. Dangerous tool my ass, useful tool to keep people in check. They tried blocking Proton now it’s Wikipedia… what’s next, google??? Since disinformation and misinformation can be found on it too? I swear nothing appeases them except blatant false information pandering to assholes like these.

India is become a censorship haven in all aspects slowly and slowly. It’s scary.

That sucks and is quite unfortunate, would’ve been cool to have another option other than signing up with your phone number but I suppose it’s alright

About time!! Been waiting for this for so long. This will definitely make the usability of Signal better and it’ll also be more accessible to people who wanted a Telegram like way to talk to other folks. Requiring a number to still register isn’t a bad thing in my eyes though sometimes it can be frustrating so I hope that there’s an option to create an account without a number. Maybe the account will have finite time before it’s auto-deleted if you don’t input a number some time later to ensure that this option isn’t abused to all hell by bots and malicious actors alike.

You’re welcome

Hey there! Thank you so much for all the work you guys do, it’s great to have an organization you can actually rely on to bring some amount of change <3

bs for sure

You’re welcome!

Here’s their toot mentioning the situation with Proton Mail: https://mastodon.world/@[email protected]/111935324571240375

Here’s their toot mentioning the situation with Proton Mail: https://mastodon.world/@[email protected]/111935324571240375

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/@[email protected]

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.

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/@[email protected]

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.

Yep, that’s sadly true

Wait till they ban staring cause it’s intimidating!

If it gets blocked then no but you can continue using it either through a VPN, a proxy server or through Tor. You could also use a different DNS to unblock the website for yourself (Incase it gets blocked)

Wish our government officials had a basic understanding of tech so they could see this and go “the fuck are we doing?”

They will target anyone they can get sadly, Indians are not exempted from this and are often times, the primary targets

Actions have been taken against the scam industry, the offices have been raided by police officers several times but once again the collective action is too little and too late

Mother of Democracy they said…

Torrenting sites are banned/blocked on many ISPs and on Jio VPNs are blocked too so you’re not that far off

Seeing how google will hand all user data when asked to, yeah that’s not gonna happen unfortunately