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Earlier this month, The New York Times reported on Apple’s dealings with China. In it, the Times found that China’s President, Xi Jinping, is increasingly exerting influence over the tech behemoth,
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Luv Puri
Journalist and author
The Indian government’s current bid to enforce a new regulatory framework over social media companies has ignited the inevitable debate on the need to have a balance between regulating platforms to avoid their instrumentalisation by bad actors against the larger public good and allowing the public to benefit freely from the services offered by these companies while upholding the privacy of the users and other democratic rights.
India is one of the biggest markets for social media companies. In India, users of Twitter (about 186 million), Facebook (around 346 million), WhatsApp (about 390 million) and YouTube (approximately 425 million) are more than the population of some of the prominent countries where these social media companies are popular. In that case, what happens in India holds significance not just for the country, but the global operations of these social media giants as it creates an institutional precedent. In specific terms, as
The debate over end-to-end encryption isn’t just about crime: It rests on the belief that there is a tech-fix for social behaviours like inflammatory rumour or pornography. The advocates of these ideas should think again.