When Russia sought to ban PM in their country they used the same excuse as India (fake bomb threats). However, understanding that this can be done via different email services, just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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just underlines that Russia and India are scared of their citizens taking their privacy back and perhaps even organizing.
They're far from being the sole countries scared about citizens safekeeping any semblance of online privacy (hi from France, EU)
Sorry to hear about France. It's really worse in France regarding your freedom online. Ironically.
They even tried to restrict VPN companies by passing a bill that forces them to keep logs. Proton was one of the companies that packed up and left. Good VPN companies don't have servers in India.
We need to make tech that is useful for overthrowing dictatorships
I like it. This means that Proton actually works and they have no way to steal your information.
Right. Couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. Especially since the company has been taking a lot of Ls recently.
Just tell Modi that Proton's CEO is a Trump endorser.
This is a great ad to use proton!
How? You can access it through Tor and other proxies.
Its usually somehow possible to evade such bans, but not every citizen knows about proxies and how to properly use them. So reducing its accessibility certainly hurts India.
Not sure I'm not Indian. But we should see it as a war against encryption
It kind of is war against encryption. I generally say western media covers Indian government in unfair bad light, but this is exactly the type of bad light coverage I support. Call out the actual stupidity from the government.
No need for anything extra proton already comes with alternate routing
India is bad