This whole thing is performative stunt, NTA system itself a problem, it don,t have accountability,and auditing clause, the way it gives contracts to private firms,itself is source of all paper leaks. They don,t want to change the system, they want same system running,they only
🇮🇳 India just pulled the plug on Telegram for the whole country.
The government blocked the app until June 22, blaming "cheating rackets" that used it to scam students taking the national medical entrance exam.
The test already got scrapped last month after the questions leaked.
India is Telegram's biggest market by downloads, so this slams hundreds of thousands of people who had nothing to do with it.
The block runs on an IT clause that lets the government pull any site in the name of national "sovereignty and integrity."
That's the catch with these laws. Once a government can switch off an entire platform in the name of security, the reason barely matters. The off switch is the point.
Source: Reuters, France 24 / Writer: Julie