Cloudflare's VPN App Among Half-Dozen Pulled From Indian App Stores (techcrunch.com)
- Reference: 0175822017
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/1030258/cloudflares-vpn-app-among-half-dozen-pulled-from-indian-app-stores
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/02/cloudflares-vpn-app-among-half-dozen-pulled-from-indian-app-stores/
> The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs issued removal orders for the apps, according to a document reviewed by TechCrunch and a disclosure made by Google to Lumen, Harvard University's database that tracks government takedown requests globally.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/02/cloudflares-vpn-app-among-half-dozen-pulled-from-indian-app-stores/
Re: (Score:2)
Unless you have an iphone.
Re: No problem (Score:2)
Then change your App Store region?
Censorship is bad (Score:3)
India has a lot of censorship, they don't really have free speech. In practice I know that it can lead to abuses and problems, but I also understand [1]they are trying to prevent this sort of thing from happening [wikipedia.org].
It seems like there is a better way, though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Spewing_hate_speech
Re: (Score:2)
Nasty sociopaths exploit indigenous religions for power.
To some extent the Dream of the Brahman is inherently collectivist.
In the same way Mao exploited Buddhism's call for nonresistance to murder 90M Chinese, Modi and his crew can censor the Hindus to maintain power.
Imagine if alternate sources of "truth" were allowrd to teach Indians! Why, they might form their own opinions and, gasp, seek self-determination.
Anyway, apps are too easy to ban. It's nasty that Google and Apple don't support Wireguard nativ
Stop being private! (Score:5, Insightful)
Your government wants to protect you from privacy.
If the government banned the VPN provider then it was probably a good one...
Personally I'm more interested to get all government officials to disclose all their finances? Public officials should have less privacy.
It never hurt Trump or Putin (Score:2)
> Personally I'm more interested to get all government officials to disclose all their finances? Public officials should have less privacy.
Trump had NUMEROUS financial scandals leaked and even a few felony convictions, but it never hurt him...same with Putin. Everyone knows both are bad people and yet both won the popular vote. I wish what you said was true, but what baffles me is that Trump has his supporters and will win no matter what he does or how bad of a job he does. So while it's good to learn why politicians are crooks, it only works on rational voters and it seems like the USA has way too many irrational voters right now.