This is just messed up and sad. Why do people do this stuff? Why do they have to act like assholes?

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/@internetfreedom@mas.to

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.

By applying Indian government logic, yes! this just in, Microwaves have been banned after a bomb was sent inside a microwave....

It really is but who knows what goes on the minds of out government's officials lol

Seeing how google will hand all user data when asked to, yeah that's not gonna happen unfortunately

Torrenting sites are banned/blocked on many ISPs and on Jio VPNs are blocked too so you're not that far off

Here's their toot mentioning the situation with Proton Mail: https://mastodon.world/@internetfreedom@mas.to/111935324571240375

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

Hey there! Thank you so much for all the work you guys do, it's great to have an organization you can actually rely on to bring some amount of change <3

Wish our government officials had a basic understanding of tech so they could see this and go "the fuck are we doing?"

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)

Mother of Democracy they said....

I had known what Linux was but I never really was interested in finding out what it was. That was, until, 2021 came around and I became more privacy conscious. Learning more about Open Source software and it's philosophy, switching completely to FOSS software (besides ROM) on my phone and then slowly looking into Linux. I was fascinated by it, this wholly new world as it seemed to me... ready to explore and learn so much from. Of course, someone who's used windows most of his life will definitely think of it as a challenge to learn to use Linux and adapt to it. I started supporting and using more and more OSS and loved it, so naturally I also had became a bit more interested in Linux. After I became privacy conscious, I also wanted to get away from Big Tech and I already hated using Windows by that point. That was because I've had a low end PC most of my life, I stuck around with Windows 7 until 2019 where it became EOL and I had to switch to Windows 10. It was an awful experience, running windows 10 on older and low end hardware.

Then came 2022, I had a new upgraded system and it was more mid-range than low-end now. I started using Linux in VMs and learnt more and more about it, I tried to switch full time but couldn't because of a few things that I just cannot live without. Truth be told I'm still using Windows, there's just one thing holding me back and all other things I've either adapted to, learnt or have found an alternative for. I know some people will hurl insults at me for saying I dislike Big Tech but also use Windows and call myself privacy conscious but It is what it is. I use Linux part-time in VMs and I really enjoy it. As soon as that use case is covered, I'll be making a full switch to Linux.

Apologies if this went a little off-topic haha, couldn't help myself I'm afraid

Vanilla OS. I loved the idea of having access to so many packaging formats and package managers at my fingertips but maintaining the system, managing everything and keeping in mind all the things that I'm doing was just too much work for me when I just wanted a system that I can use without any hassle. I know immutable distros are quite the buzz these days but it just isn't for me. That was also the time when I was trying to find an Ubuntu based vanilla GNOME distro

SOAD, Mudvayne and Static-X

Imagine a show where all 3 bands play new material, Static-X has already released some new stuff but SOAD (excluding those two single in 2020) and Mudvayane have yet to do so

It'd be an amazing show for all I know!

They will target anyone they can get sadly, Indians are not exempted from this and are often times, the primary targets

I wonder if he herd them going in....

bs for sure

Yep, that's sadly true

An explosive image! An explosive zilla!!

iirc the devs have added Disk Encryption support and it'll ship in the next release (Orchid). I can imagine how confusing and frustrating that must've been!

Maybe I'll give Vanilla OS another try when Orchid releases

Cheesus!

Wait till they ban staring cause it's intimidating!

You're welcome!

You're welcome

yep, sadly that's true

I wish I was tbh, it's sad that stuff like this happens and it's very unfortunate... it bewilders me so much, to see someone go out their way to do shit like this but I guess when you're full of hate you'll do stupid shit like this

I see, honestly I HOPE it was some stupid child because if it was an adult with a functioning brain then idk what to say