Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by drieddust on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:58AM
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Champions of free expression wants to grant more power to Jack and his cohort than to the democratically elected Government because Governments are corrupt but Jack is not. How Ironic?
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Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by bongoman37 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:57AM
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India's government is only nominally democratic and rapidly falling in freedom parameters looked at from any perspective. They are charging climate activists with sedition, holding protestors without charge for months, increase in extrajudicial killings and rapidly falling Human Development Indicators.
Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by revendell_elf on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:11AM
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Please cite your source for all these claims. I'm pretty sure I'm lagging behind in the news these days.
Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by bongoman37 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:38AM
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You certainly are:
Climate activists and sedition https://news.google.com/search?q=disha%20ravi%20sedition
India freedom https://news.google.com/search?q=india%20freedom
India extrajudicial killings https://news.google.com/search?q=india%20extrajudicial%20kil...
Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by yuriko_boyko on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:56AM
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Their manifesto did not say that they'll regulate social media and try to limit internet freedoms. They were not elected for that. Can any future election be truly democratic if those in power get to issue content takedowns?
Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by drieddust on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:19AM
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An absurd argument. If a new situation emerges Government should not act because it was not in their manifesto?
Re:India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws...
by creata on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:45AM
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Yes, I want Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, to have more control over Twitter than the government.
> the democratically elected Government
The democratically elected government was elected for a million different reasons, but their proficiency at managing social media networks was not one of them. And, you know, controlling every single social network is just a bit more dangerous than controlling one.