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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by HideousKojima on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:08AM (#34232282)
How, exactly, do you propose doing that? Do you mean hiring lawyers to try and get the court's decision reversed? Or lobbying to get legislation passed to prevent courts from being able to do things like this in the future? And if the court's decision doesn't get reversed and/or the legislation doesn't pass, what then?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by themitigating on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:12AM (#34232331)
Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by pjc50 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:16AM (#34232377)
There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by themitigating on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:23AM (#34232509)
And it will continue to be if people ignore things like this. In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by vasqw on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:36AM (#34232756)
>In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders

The corollary being that citizens of democratic countries have the leaders they deserve.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by howinteresting on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:29PM (#34234613)
Any responsibility on voters tends to be greatly attenuated in anything but the smallest of democracies.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by miohtama on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:02AM (#34233152)
Unfortunately yes. Every democratic country deserves the government they get. However, in the case of India, it seems that it is slowly sliding towards authoritarianism and maybe soon Modi and co. can elect themselves without asking the people. Though India is not alone with this and it is happening in multiple countries. Usually the end of credible opposition, being crushed, marks the beginning of the end, like we have seen with Russia and Belarus.

Here are some red flags from India:

https://scroll.in/article/1027566/opinion-indian-democracy-i...

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by sanghi_mama on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:02AM (#34233157)
And they are very powerful on the internet as well as migrants in western countries of the majority so-called-majority-religion-of-india support them. Hate speech on the internet against non-Hindus is common in the country and even here they are trying hard to remove my comments fearing many people will see their true faces. It's only social media and whatsapp that's required by you-know-which-majority-religion terrorist accounts to spread venom and hate speech against other communities. source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61090363
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by sanghi_mama on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:39AM (#34245969)
And they are very powerful on the internet as well as migrants in western countries of the majority so-called-majority-religion-of-india support them. Hate speech on the internet against non-Hindus is common in the country and even here they are trying hard to remove my comments fearing many people will see their true faces. It's only social media and whatsapp that's required by you-know-which-majority-religion terrorist accounts to spread venom and hate speech against other communities. source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61090363
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by karaterobot on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:48AM (#34233927)
> Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.

I don't know what you mean by this, but if you mean persuading them to change their support, that's a very long timeline, certainly not something that fits into a development sprint...

And if you mean "attack" supporters of the people who implemented the ban, that's a terrible idea.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by rubyist5eva on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:20PM (#34234436)
"go after" how exactly?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by themitigating on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:55PM (#34248964)
In order to stop "the right " you need to be worse than them