Proton pulled their VPN servers out of India after they passed a law mandating logging.
‘you can connect to our new Smart Routing servers for India. These will give you an Indian IP address and behave just as our physical servers in India did. The only difference is that, in reality, they are based in Singapore.’
More details here https://protonvpn.com/blog/servers-india/
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This is why i love proton
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So secure we’re banned in India!
But if you need to communicate with people from there like a lot of company do, you’re fucked.
Just call instead and explain you’ve sent them emails. Oh, you’re not getting the email because of your government? That sounds like a you problem that you need to fix. I might be forced to take my business elsewhere.
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So you doesn’t give a fuck about indians ?
No. The world will not bend over backward to suit your backwards government and its backwards rules.
Talk about being a racist and i am pretty sure you guys don’t give a flying fuck about north koreans or anyone else except you atleast try to act like you have a little humanity left in your hearts even though you don’t .
How is giving into authoritarian governments helping the oppressed populations in those countries?
Informing them that said authoritarians are blocking our private and secure email services in favor of surveillance, lets them vote against their leadership, or protest, if their votes aren’t counted.
North Korea is hyperbolic though, since they really aren’t even officially connected to the internet.
I know but you could still express some sympathy some comments have an attitude like its your problem loser . And not connected to the internet doesn’t mean they aren’t real
It’s is positively beyond deranged to be this nationalistic. You have quite literally taken personal offence to the general idea of opposition to the positions of your current government.
Are you India? Am I speaking to the subcontinent itself? Please advise at once sir.
What ? Technically i am not even from “India” and i hate indian government as much as anyone else . I just found the lack of sympathy of those users kinda deppressing and would’ve said the same thing if you changed india to china or russia or any other country. My point is hate the government not the people even though most indians i met are right wing shit eaters there still are some people who stands for justice but doesn’t have the power and thibk differently than others so yeah i kinda hate steriotyping like i get it most indians are like that but some are not . Like i would bet some of the germans in the nazi era was good.
Nothing against them personally. If the American government or British government or insert-any-nationality government did the same, I’d say the same thing.
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?
That’s odd. I’m surprised they blocked it for you. I also work for the US federal government and I haven’t had any issues with using Proton at work. I wonder why the difference.
Wow, TWO terrorists working in the US government‽‽ /s
It was fine until a few weeks ago. We moved into a new building and something with the network changed. Concurrently we also have to connect via the VPN a different way than we used to. With all of those changes Proton went from not blocked to blocked.
Well getting it banned at the ISP level comes to mind.
Modi trying not to be an authoritarian POS challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!)
authoritarian is when u no want bomb threats. Genius.
Please elaborate. Modi dismantling India’s democracy is well documented.
What does that have to do with this thread?
They don’t want companies to aid people who want to bomb them. Is that really a tall ask? What do you prefer, that they wiretap the entire internet like western governments do here? You can know the UK can read our private messages? - https://gizmodo.com/teen-fine-joke-text-taliban-jets-scramble-in-spain-1851192668
Fuck authoritarianism
A lot of this stuff is highly suspicious considering how long governments have been trying to ban VPNs and encrypted messaging. At some point I’d expect someone in favor of bans to commit activities like this to push services to block and governments to ban.
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
Can you recommend anything to learn about GPG?
Hey it is banned on my country too! :3
Which Country ?
Turkey (🤢)
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You should take note of other services that are blocked since it could give you an idea of what your government is trying hide, by using OONI probe
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
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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.
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alternative opinion: LE has become overly reliant on cheap tricks like spying.
The extreme Indian nationalism in the comments is insane. They will lick any boot that comes to power in their country.
my school also blocks it, i have to use skiovox and a vpn just to access my personal email