@PMOIndia We can't compete in the Al race, especially when the government is banning the most-used platform for Al integrations and modern Al startups - Telegram. All this for an exam that still follows a two-decade-old syllabus
the difference between US and india is:
- US banned fable 5 to keep the technology for themselves
- india (temporarily) banned telegram to keep the technology for everyone else but ourselves
we have a saying for this:
khud ke paer par kulhadi maarna
Court reserves judgment in Telegram case. Two things stood out from the proceedings.
At one point, the judge seemed to say (my understanding, note) that being denied natural justice cannot by itself be grounds for challenging the decision, and there must be something more. This is part of a troubling trend where 'liberty is the default' is totally ignored by the courts. People are languishing without trial in courts for years, but the absence of due process is excused repeatedly.
The other thing odd was the government's claim that the architecture of Telegram makes it dangerous. But the app is used around the world, and other countries have not sought to ban it (except some dictatorships which we should not emulate). Why is it more dangerous in India? And despite the fact that we have quite a number of savvy IT folks who ought to be able to understand and mitigate risks better than in other countries.
On telegram HC hearing, Delhi high court asked govt “whether an entire app can be blocked because of misuse by subset of users and asking whether less restrictive measures were available”
Bench asked to govt “Can you block someone else’s right to protect someone else’s right”
Guard: "Sir, a thief escaped the prison".
Jailer: "How?"
Guard: "I don't know sir, but he picked the Enfield bike parked at the gate and vanished before we could react."
Jailer: "Oh no, let me talk to the Home Ministry and get a blanket ban on Enfield. We can't afford another escape."
#neetexam2026 #telegramban
@Divyansh91565 If our government offends by a Telegram admin’s tweet, it means current govt is too fragile. Every action will reflect the true face of govt.
No app should be banned in India. Indians must have the freedom to use whatever app they want. If a user is misusing an app and harming people, action must be taken against the user and not the developers of the app.
@DataGuyRedux why some are surprised after seeing response on telegram ban. Its the expected response from general public cause telegram is second most used chat app world wide after whatsapp. Imagine a ban on X to prevent sharing of epstine files. Shady people can be in every platform.
@ParamSiddh Its the expected response from people, cause telegram is second most used chat application after whatsapp world wide. Just imagine if govt will ban whatsapp. People will respond in same way
@DrHomeostatic Internet is melting down, cause the decision of banning an app for 154 million users to prevent a paper leak is unacceptable. Telegram is second most used chat application after whatsapp world wide, how govt can neglect this fact.
@AverageDarki@durov No app is above the country, and the country is built by its people. Banning an app in India means punishing its own people. Better punish them who are behind the paper leak.
Hello @narendramodi
NEET faliure of your govt. is making losses to my business on Telegram.
Clients can't even connect after clicking Meta ads — even wasted my 2 days budget of Meta ads because of your crap decision for banning Telegram.
Who will compensate my losses???
@durov
@HelloVyom@CortisoulX You are saying it’s fair to ban an app which is used by millions for many other purposes ( courses, trading, dev engineering, ai etc.) cause govt needs “ Time” to fix root cause.
Such a lame opinion by you. And a bad decision by current govt.