India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era

India's government has presented the nation with a challenge: to lead development and deployment of 6G, both within its borders and elsewhere. Prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday opened an area office and innovation center of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and used the occasion to launch a 6G vision …

[ChoHag]

Is this the same Indian leadership which shuts it all down whenever someone looks at them funny?

[BOFH in Training]

Well now you know that easy shutdown will be one of the key features in the 6G standard.

Maybe throw in easy monitoring as well?

[jmch]

Yep, and that imprisons the leader of the opposition for 2 years for calling the prime minister corrupt.

[Raj]

Meanwhile the UK is doing a far better job of being an authoritarian state with draconian laws:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html

Arrests for offensive Facebook and Twitter posts soar in London

https://www.theregister.com/2016/06/02/social_media_arrests_up_37pc_london_section_127_communications_act/

Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third

So Brits, if you replace Modi with Sunak in your lovely witticisms, do you still end up in jail for it ?

Glass houses. Stones.

[Anonymous Coward]

Emu's rule of bullshit: don't believe a word of anything that includes the word "leverage" as a verb

[J.G.Harston]

Last time I checked, India was significantly north of the equator.

[John 179]

Global South != South

The Global South is a term which refers to developing economies. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

[Raj]

People still use 'first world' and 'third world' when that's just a classification of countries from the cold war and vent out of use in 1991.