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A comment on India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws will harm the internet. Parent comment

Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws... by uniclaude on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:48AM (#26339407)
The view that governments are necessarily trying to control information unless they’re dumb is not universally shared. This has little to do with surrendering sovereignty.
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Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws... by A12-B on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:04AM (#26339504)
Governments that want to keep their power have to control information. Every country does it differently, but they all do it.
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Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws... by revendell_elf on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:52AM (#26339435)
But the view that companies trying to censor and control information is universally acceptable, right? I think most the universe lies in the West.
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Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws... by triceratops on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:40AM (#26344619)
> control information

On their websites. You keep leaving that out. Facebook can't control what goes on Twitter and vice versa. But the government has power over both. That's why it's bad for the government to do it.

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