A ProtonMail account was used to send bomb threats to schools in the region, so the government wants to ban the service outright.
  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The extreme Indian nationalism in the comments is insane. They will lick any boot that comes to power in their country.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I work for the US government and Proton is blocked at the network level, so I can’t check my personal email at work. In that sense, the US has already “banned” it. In what other way could a government “ban” an email provider?

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The government’s move is in line with a recent policy that has targeted services with end-to-end encryption. A host of encrypted apps were blocked at the start of last year — including the likes of Threema, Element, Wickrme, and Safeswiss — and the government is going after WhatsApp to disable end-to-end encryption, although it isn’t clear how that would even work.

    This is why GPG is still an important and valuable tool. You can use it on litteral anything and not relying on single point of failure. Paired with steganography no one will know the message even existed. Yet, not many are willing to learn nor support this anymore.

    Edit: use of more conservative wording Edit 2: correct spelling

          • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 years ago

            You think I don’t know? There is a reason that I connect to the internet only via VPN and my country generally uses DPI to censor sites and so on. Half of the population is paralised and propagandised by instagram, tiktok and the national TV. the rest are made to feel very powerless, hell most students are aiming to study the university aboard and never come back afterwards(me, I am the students), I am well aware of the mass censorship and the oppression of our government against marginalised minorities like immigrants, kurds and LGBTQ people(me). We have a putin sittuation over here the same far right fascist party wins every election and my only hope at the moment is to escape

              • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 years ago

                yea I am an exmuslim, I am against organized religion generally, you are pretty spot on about the country being run by religious zealots I would like to add that not only religion but also fascism plays a big role in our politics.