Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
by musicale on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:48PM
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For a moment I thought you might be the Brian Dear who wrote The Friendly Orange Glow (a fascinating history of the PLATO system).
Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
by sashank_1509 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:00PM
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It really is between 2 choices:
1. An authoritarian government that can actually do things but also mess up and be harsh against anyone opposing it - China
2. A democratic government that can’t get anything done, citizens can’t rely on police for any crimes, courts for any justice, politicians for any development, where the politics of the nation just constantly seeks to divide on basis of caste, religion, language etc, and the nation as a whole wallows in mediocrity.
Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
by scheeseman486 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:50PM
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This is such a deeply simplistic and childish way of looking at the world.
Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
by sashank_1509 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:38PM
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Easy for you to say, I presume you don’t live in India
Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
by int_19h on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:45PM
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What is special about India that condemns it specifically to these two choices? There are other countries (which aren't China) which somehow manage to have democratic governments that aren't incompetent.
As someone that lived in China for 5 years, competent is the last adjective I’d use.
Sichuan Earthquake —> https://circa.art/ai-weiwei-recapturing-the-tragedy/
The Shanghai Lockdown —> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59890533.amp
Local Chinese government corruption —> https://thediplomat.com/2025/03/how-local-corruption-evolved...
Tai Lake pollution —> https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/taihu-green-wash-or...
Land seizures —> https://rightsandresources.org/blog/the-guardian-chinese-vil...
Xinjiang —> https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-musl...
One could call China’s government competent the same way one could say Stalin was a competent administrator. Nazis were also very “competent” and efficient. In no universe should that be considered “good government.”