You’re welcome

Hey there! Thank you so much for all the work you guys do, it’s great to have an organization you can actually rely on to bring some amount of change <3

bs for sure

You’re welcome!

Here’s their toot mentioning the situation with Proton Mail: https://mastodon.world/@internetfreedom@mas.to/111935324571240375

Btw Internet Freedom Foundation (or the IFF) filed several RTI requests (RTI = Request to information) regarding this situation. If anyone wants to follow their progress then here’s their Mastodon account: https://mastodon.world/@internetfreedom@mas.to

The IFF is a highly trustworthy and well respected organization that fights for Indians digital rights and democratic freedoms. They’ve done a lot of good work over the years, they even helped VLC to get unblocked when it was banned in India.

Yep, that’s sadly true

Wait till they ban staring cause it’s intimidating!

If it gets blocked then no but you can continue using it either through a VPN, a proxy server or through Tor. You could also use a different DNS to unblock the website for yourself (Incase it gets blocked)

Wish our government officials had a basic understanding of tech so they could see this and go “the fuck are we doing?”

They will target anyone they can get sadly, Indians are not exempted from this and are often times, the primary targets

Actions have been taken against the scam industry, the offices have been raided by police officers several times but once again the collective action is too little and too late

Mother of Democracy they said…

Torrenting sites are banned/blocked on many ISPs and on Jio VPNs are blocked too so you’re not that far off

Seeing how google will hand all user data when asked to, yeah that’s not gonna happen unfortunately

By applying Indian government logic, yes! this just in, Microwaves have been banned after a bomb was sent inside a microwave…

It really is but who knows what goes on the minds of out government’s officials lol

iirc the devs have added Disk Encryption support and it’ll ship in the next release (Orchid). I can imagine how confusing and frustrating that must’ve been!

Maybe I’ll give Vanilla OS another try when Orchid releases

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Vanilla OS. I loved the idea of having access to so many packaging formats and package managers at my fingertips but maintaining the system, managing everything and keeping in mind all the things that I’m doing was just too much work for me when I just wanted a system that I can use without any hassle. I know immutable distros are quite the buzz these days but it just isn’t for me. That was also the time when I was trying to find an Ubuntu based vanilla GNOME distro