India's Government bans TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over national security concerns

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[–]america_first_1776 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Based

[–]Dashing-Dove 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is how the CCP is kept in check, by cutting off their tendrils in technology and manufacturing. Easier said than done, given existing international dependencies, but good for India in this instance. They are no friends to their regional neighbors, the West, or even their own citizens - so long, Hong Kong.

[–]BigNoseFloyd 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Now if only they could learn to use toilets

[–]Wrang1er 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They do use toilets

[–]BobQuixote 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You're probably referring to how they used to poop anywhere and let the 'untouchables' clean it up. Pretty sure both of those hardly happen now.

[–]BigNoseFloyd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How so? The government spent $38 billion on making sure every single one of them had access to a toilet and the streets are still filled with shit. There have been lots of people interviewing the locals on why they don't use em and the majority of them view it as disgusting. It will literally take generations to make these people accustomed to a fucking toilet.

[–]BobQuixote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's not the story I see when I look into it, but maybe I don't have sufficient visibility into specific states or something. Can you link such a story?

[–]BigNoseFloyd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I read it from https://www.factchecker.in/110-million-toilets-built-but-claim-that-india-free-of-open-defecation-not-true/

The government's claim that India is cleaned up is a straight up lie. The toilets they built (or never followed up on for some) are poorly done and clog frequently in addition to some Indian's never using them in the first place.

[–]BobQuixote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well shit. That is quite a multi-layered bungle. Thanks for the info.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Are they afraid of the competition? I remember all those articles about how India uses privacy invading technologies forced upon its citizens.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't think it's competition so much as the software is literally spyware for the Chinese government, and that's been proven pretty robustly

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nobody argues that, but I believe the average Indian citizen spied upon by his government has little worry about the Chinese spying on him.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe, but if it's on enough phones then it will be on some military phones and so on...