India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix network

Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by eunos on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:29AM (#35827876)

Pretty sure Cong will do the same. India take unlicensed communication seriously. Even plane wifi doesn't work when it flies over Indian airspace.

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by SanderNL on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:32AM (#35827903)

“Unlicensed communication”. Now that’s an interesting way to put it.

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by lotsofpulp on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:42AM (#35827984)

Somewhat related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by eunos on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:17AM (#35830330)

India also regulate satellite telephone heavily iirc

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by xxpor on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:06PM (#35833817)

I believe that's because the Mumbai attackers used satphones to communicate with each other.

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by isanjay on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:40AM (#35828468)

> Pretty sure Cong will do the same

I hate Congress too.

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by eunos on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:25AM (#35830449)

India has no neolib party or libertarian party unfortunately

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by jimsimmons on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:56PM (#35832009)

Classic sanghi whatavoutism to render any criticism irrelevant

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by throwaway384629 on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:49PM (#35833583)

True, one day they might say Nazis also did it.

These comments from this post:

>> EVERY government does this

>> Pretty sure Cong will do the same.

>> And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries?

>> Interestingly the US is busy pushing the EARN IT act again right now.

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Re:India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix n... by eunos on Saturday May 06, 2023 @06:36AM (#35840004)

Considering that many posts here just complaining about BJP, I just wisen them up by saying that it's bipartisan, so kinda useless seething over one party.

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