India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/

Wtf is going on in this world? Why does every fucking fascist government wants to control all the computers and the internet?

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 246d

It’s pretty logical if you think about it. Control the flow of information and you largely control what and how a population thinks, and how public discourse is conducted. It’s a bloodless coup.

More succinctly: it’s technofascism