[mindfulhack]

> They've banned VPNs. They'll chuck you in prison if you speak against the government or a politician.

Thank you for sharing this information. How were you, in your comment above, able to safely criticise the government while in India?

(If you are not able to disclose how you did, that's understandable to me. We all know about methods like Tor and obfs4 bridges. I run a Tor bridge to help people in China, hopefully. And now thanks to you, I'm thinking of India too.)

[definitelyRobot]

HTTPS, and a throwaway account that cannot be linked to me. I live in an urban area where the internet isn't very restricted (other than DNS-level blocks for porn and piracy sites). The same is not there for the people in Kashmir, who have had very little (and severely restricted) access to the internet in the past eight months or so.

[marvindanig]

Stay safe! BJP or rather RSS is a Nazism driven platform and, like seen in any other country in recent years, people fell for the bait of 'development' and guerilla marketing from bigots of their major religion.

This is extremely sad and I am hoping things will correct before everything worsens further.

> Many people are upset, but there's nothing we can do.

I remember people (not to point to anyone in particular but generally) even the educated ones making fun of a new engineer politician on the rise. There was news about slapping the newbie on their roadshows and rallies where this politician was trying to connect personally with the people.

What do you think of that?

For someone like me with an outside-in view I feel that we have a 'karma problem' with the general citizenry of India. Not to come off as a prude American (this is also true now for my own country as well-–Trump nation) but democracy is so much like a mirror––and in the end we all get what we deserve.

[foolinaround]

While the situation in India is getting worse as others say, it can't be compared to China at all...