Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan. The order follows a terrorist attack in April that killed at least 26 tourists in Kashmir, which India attributes to Pakistan-backed actors. The ministry’s …

[An_Old_Dog]

Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

This level of paranoid reaction to anything vaguely Pakistani would be like the US government fearing revolutionary plots every time someone sang or played, (I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land.

Lyrics link:

https://genius.com/Daniel-decatur-emmett-i-wish-i-was-in-dixies-land-lyrics

[herman]

Re: Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

It is not paranoia if the countries really are shooting at each other.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Trump and Modi should get together with Nutter'n'yahoo and have themselves a big old CIA supplied crack party...

[hohumladida]

Ahem, it's NettinYahoo to you.

[Tron]

India is the next China.

And nationalist regimes will do anything they can to break the global internet and build digital borders.

It's really depressing that gullible proles vote autocrats into power, because they just ruin everything.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: India is the next China.

Social experiment:

YT, Insta, FB etc : block all access from India, replace with message "to ensure compliance ... for more information, call (number of Indian govt official, preferably direct dial)"

See who cracks first*

*will be FB etc cos they don't have balls for it, but you can hope for miracles

[R Soul]

It's really depressing that gullible proles vote autocrats into power

Except when they vote for lying, incompetent, ego-tripping buffoons. That's so much better for everyone.

[kmorwath]

Re: India is the next China.

The good thing is they are far less competent and skilled. As soon as the usual Indian IT companies built their own Great Firewall, it will be full of holes.

[yoma]

Re: India is the next China.

Precisely. It is not even close. Chinese are far more intelligent and sophisticated. Their economy is proof. India has to import most their gear and then they need directions on how to use it because they do not have a clue.

[Mobster]

Ironic that while India bans media due to the current conflict, Pakistan allowed X which was banned before the conflict.