Indian Police Open Case Against Hundreds in Kashmir For Using VPN (techcrunch.com) 46
Local authorities in India-controlled Kashmir have opened a case against hundreds of people who used virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent a social media ban in the disputed Himalayan region in a move that has been denounced by human rights and privacy activists. From a report: Tahir Ashraf, who heads the police cyber division in Srinagar, said on Tuesday that the authority had identified and was probing hundreds of suspected users who he alleged misused social media to promote "unlawful activities and secessionist ideology." On Monday, the police said they had also seized "a lot of incriminating material" under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the nation's principal counter-terrorism law. Those found guilty could be jailed up to seven years. "Taking a serious note of misuse of social media, there have been continuous reports of misuse of social media sites by the miscreants to propagate the secessionist ideology and to promote unlawful activities," the region's police said in a statement. The move comes weeks after the Indian government restored access to several hundred websites, including some shopping websites such as Amazon India and Flipkart and select news outlets in the disputed region. Facebook, Twitter and other social media services remain blocked, and mobile data speeds remain capped at 2G speeds.
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there are hundreds of thousands here(or more) in the US, especially at our universities that are against the 1st Amendment to our constitution.
If our Liberal Indoctrination Centers (US Colleges) are actually filled with citizens who are against the 1st Amendment, then I'd like to know when those highly vocal morons are going to shut the fuck up, because they seem to be enjoying the shit out of the 1st Amendment with every breath they take.
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They like "their" 1st Amendment rights. Now when it comes to "your" 1st Amendment rights it is a different story. Your rights have to go!
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If our Liberal Indoctrination Centers (US Colleges)
Please don't call anyone who is against free speech "Liberal". Otherwise English Dictionaries are just going to become unworkable.
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It sure would be nice if we could reclaim the words "liberal" and "conservative". Most people I know who are actually liberal (believe strongly in individual liberty) would be decried as alt-right on social media, precisely because they support ideas like free speech. Meanwhile, most people I know who are actually conservative (reject new ideas without proof they are better) are also liberal. We don't have good words for what liberal and conservative used to mean.
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Please don't call anyone who is against free speech "Liberal"
Classic [European] "Liberalism" - thank you, John Locke - is virtually the opposite of "American Liberalism," which espouses that power be held by the State, not by the People. No thank you, Hamilton, you Big Gov't Fuck.
Long Live "Jeffersonian Conservatism," a classically liberal ideology if there ever fucking was one.
Very similar government to the USA (Score:1)
It's interesting to see what has happened in India.
Like the US, India has a federal (federation) system of government, with the central government representing the
union of twenty eight states and nine union territories.
It's a constitutional democratic republic, like the US, with a bicameral legislature like the US.
An major difference is that India is primarily democratic socialist, with significant Marxist influence. Socialism and Marxism differ from capitalism primarily in that while the US system gives yo
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there are hundreds of thousands here(or more) in the US, especially at our universities that are against the 1st Amendment to our constitution.
*citation needed
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Starlink (Score:5, Insightful)
This is why we need Starlink. This is why we should never use anything other than end to end encrypted communications â"- even if you have nothing to hide. Because there are people that need to use it and if it isnâ(TM)t standard they can be prosecuted. That means staying away from RCS. Use Telegram, use Signal. Even WhatsApp is OK for now.
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They will just make owning and/or operating and/or even being near a Starlink transceiver an offense justifying incarceration.
Absolute control of information is vital to authoritarian governments and they won't give up on it that easy.
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Portable. Cheap. RF Direction Finder.
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Portable. Cheap. Directional Antenna.
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India is far from authoritarian, but their ideas of freedom are a bit weird.
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India is far from authoritarian, but their ideas of freedom are a bit weird.
They are actively cracking down on political speech by force. Your ideas of authoritarianism are a bit weird.
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The license Raj is no fun to deal with, but yeah, they've been mostly not authoritarian. Modi seems to be working on changing that, though.
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This is why we need Starlink. This is why we should never use anything other than end to end encrypted communications. That means staying away from RCS. Use Telegram, use Signal. Even WhatsApp is OK for now.
Starlink wouldn't help. These people were charged with posting messages to social media that the government didn't like. It wants to control the information coming out of Kashmir. Whether folks post to social media using VPN or Starlink, they're still posting to social media, still falling foul of the same laws, same investigative techniques, same penalty.
They could switch to using anonymous forums to post their material. That would unfortunately reduce their credibility, and police would still be able to g
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Oh the irony (Score:2, Insightful)
So, what have we here? People who are (1) spreading misinformation on social media, (2) promoting separatism (I smell Russia here), (3) behavior that is clearly illegal, by (4) literal terrorists.
How many times have I heard that when there is a clear and present danger like this, we don't just need censorship, but it is a moral failing if we don't censor.
Why do I get the distinct feeling that there will shortly be a "we have always been at war with Eurasia" moment where these same people will suddenly di
This is Trump's wet dream (Score:1)
Seriously, this is what Trump wants more than anything- the ability to imprison people at will for something they may or may not have done. Look for him to ramp up his rhetoric about 'deep state' actors using VPNs to 'subvert america' or some such nonsense.
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Ignore Trump. He is not a problem, so long as he is voted out in November and steps down in January.
Let's assume for a moment he's voted out. Do you or anyone else really see him admitting he lost and stepping aside gracefully?
No way. He'll insist the elections were rigged and refuse to step down. He may go so far as to declare martial law based on his claim that the elections were 'unfair' or 'illegitimate'. He's already talked repeatedly about getting a 3rd term, and he's said we should consider the whole "president for life thing" like with President Xi of China. He's not joking about this.
But again, a
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Do you or anyone else really see him admitting he lost and stepping aside gracefully?
I explicitly stated: "I think he will literally attempt a coup,"
I just think that nobody will follow him. He'll huff, and he'll puff, and he'll move to Mar a lago and require the Secret Service buy the condo next to his, and profit from that, for as long as he can. Other ex-presidents have refused secret service protection, but he'll be the first "fired" by the SS. After 6 years or so. Then he'll claim he fired them to save money.
India is following China (Score:1)
The country is run by two incompetent bigoted men - Narendra Modi and Amit Shah - catering to the Hindu right wing fantasies of world domination.
If you are in USA and in IT look around you..the average Indian software programmer is an upper caste Hindu and does not understand the freedom he/she gets here is based on the US constitution. They don't understand Indian constitution.
The reason for posting as AC...the Indian security apparatus is getting into th
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Satellites (Score:2)
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Most nations could hurt for spies using very different advanced radio and later emerging sat tech going back decades.
A consumer using this decades low cost consumer sat tech? Not so hard for the gov of India to detect.
Both in terms of who is selling, importing by using police informants to shop for and buy.
To detect any consumers using the consumer sat tech for hours every day
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Do you have the slightest idea how big the recievers are going to be...
From everything I can find, it's going to be some sort of motorized dish that you put out in your yard.
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This also caught my eye - with the slant that would an Act that prevents unlawful activities actually by Constitutional in the US?
Consider - we have a Rule of Law that specifies consequences for a whole host of offenses of various types. But is it in keeping with this body of law to actually *prevent* people from breaking the law?
Is it Constitutional to pass a law requiring every car to detect the local speed limit (through whatever means) and simply prevent anyone from ever speeding, under any circumstanc