A ProtonMail account was used to send bomb threats to schools in the region, so the government wants to ban the service outright.
    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      But if you need to communicate with people from there like a lot of company do, you’re fucked.

      • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Just call instead and explain you’ve sent them emails. Oh, you’re not getting the email because of your government? That sounds like a you problem that you need to fix. I might be forced to take my business elsewhere.

  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Proton pulled their VPN servers out of India after they passed a law mandating logging.

    ‘you can connect to our new Smart Routing servers for India. These will give you an Indian IP address and behave just as our physical servers in India did. The only difference is that, in reality, they are based in Singapore.’

    More details here https://protonvpn.com/blog/servers-india/

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    The government’s move is in line with a recent policy that has targeted services with end-to-end encryption. A host of encrypted apps were blocked at the start of last year — including the likes of Threema, Element, Wickrme, and Safeswiss — and the government is going after WhatsApp to disable end-to-end encryption, although it isn’t clear how that would even work.

    This is why GPG is still an important and valuable tool. You can use it on litteral anything and not relying on single point of failure. Paired with steganography no one will know the message even existed. Yet, not many are willing to learn nor support this anymore.

    Edit: use of more conservative wording Edit 2: correct spelling

  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    The extreme Indian nationalism in the comments is insane. They will lick any boot that comes to power in their country.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I work for the US government and Proton is blocked at the network level, so I can’t check my personal email at work. In that sense, the US has already “banned” it. In what other way could a government “ban” an email provider?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    What’s scary is that China and India are to massive countries in terms of population. The way this is going most of humanity could end up living in countries with low respect for human rights.

    • whoareu@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I was beaten for standing against authoritarian government. The situation is so bad in India that I am afraid to reveal my religion in university. Lot of people in University tries to oppress me and I can’t even complaint because everyone is ok with this and they enjoy oppressing us minorities.

      I honesly feel like a jew living under nazi germany. 😞

      • berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin
        English
        11·
        9 months ago

        I honesly feel like a jew living under nazi germany

        i am sorry, but i am not sure if you know how ridiculous and hurtful this sounds for people who have witnessed the holocaust and their relatives.

        you do not know how it feels to be a jew under naxi germany.

        i do not doubt your suffering and oppression, but this is a bit insensitive in my perception and i think these are things we shouldn’t compare until there are comparable things happening.

        anyway, yes, that sucks. i am sad that your government is like this in an authoritarian way and that everbody else is ok with everything.

        • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pubEnglish
          01·
          9 months ago

          You should take note of other services that are blocked since it could give you an idea of what your government is trying hide, by using OONI probe

          • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            9 months ago

            You think I don’t know? There is a reason that I connect to the internet only via VPN and my country generally uses DPI to censor sites and so on. Half of the population is paralised and propagandised by instagram, tiktok and the national TV. the rest are made to feel very powerless, hell most students are aiming to study the university aboard and never come back afterwards(me, I am the students), I am well aware of the mass censorship and the oppression of our government against marginalised minorities like immigrants, kurds and LGBTQ people(me). We have a putin sittuation over here the same far right fascist party wins every election and my only hope at the moment is to escape