Btw Internet Freedom Foundation (or the IFF) filed several RTI requests (RTI = Request to information) regarding this situation. If anyone wants to follow their progress then here's their Mastodon account: https://mastodon.world/@[email protected]
The IFF is a highly trustworthy and well respected organization that fights for Indians digital rights and democratic freedoms. They've done a lot of good work over the years, they even helped VLC to get unblocked when it was banned in India.
Yep, that's sadly true
Wait till they ban staring cause it's intimidating!
If it gets blocked then no but you can continue using it either through a VPN, a proxy server or through Tor. You could also use a different DNS to unblock the website for yourself (Incase it gets blocked)
Wish our government officials had a basic understanding of tech so they could see this and go "the fuck are we doing?"
They will target anyone they can get sadly, Indians are not exempted from this and are often times, the primary targets
Actions have been taken against the scam industry, the offices have been raided by police officers several times but once again the collective action is too little and too late
Mother of Democracy they said....
Torrenting sites are banned/blocked on many ISPs and on Jio VPNs are blocked too so you're not that far off
Seeing how google will hand all user data when asked to, yeah that's not gonna happen unfortunately
By applying Indian government logic, yes! this just in, Microwaves have been banned after a bomb was sent inside a microwave....
Airtel or ACT Fibernet would be my suggestion