Did you create a throwaway account just do defend BJP ?

I don't see him defending whatever. Ongoing assault on private communication is a world-wide problem, nothing specifically Indian.

His other comment was flagged.

Unlike in US, fascist supporters in India are everywhere in STEM. I would give this person some credit though because usually they are very open in their support.

You seriously underestimate how many fascist supporters there are in STEM in the US (and Europe for that matter). Contrary to what you might assume from the public focus on DEI from big tech companies, there's a vast underbelly of reactionaries. Not to mention very influential people like Peter Thiel, who is openly hostile to the concept of democracy.

Also the sad fact is that STEM folks tend to be poor at humanities, so they easily fall prey to right wing fringe theories, they can't detect bs.

They also happen to often fall into the exact demographics right wing fringe theories cater to. Men in tech who grew up on a diet of nerd culture with sexist tropes will find it easier to believe evopsych nonsense that "women are just not biologically capable of achieving greatness in tech", white and Asian guys will find it easier to believe that they just lucked into being racially predisposed to being smarter. Worse, the discrimination perpetuated by these ideas may even be misinterpreted as evidence (because after all, they don't think sociology is a field that has any merit).

I was curious to see if Norway really did that so I looked it up: they didn't, they banned it on government devices, which makes sense to me.

What? You mean on the work device of politicians? Not quite a ban, that.

This is incorrect. You're not allowed to download TikTok onto a government issued device if you're employed by the government, but it is absolutely not banned in general.

They banned it for gathering data they are not supposed to just like India. But Element & other secure communication services are being banned for a tangential reason