India set to adopt China-style internet censorship

I suspect that that’s part of the incentive: Modi’s merry band of it-would-be-impolite-to-call-us-dangerous-ethnic-nationalists-with-nontrivial-theocratic-enthusiasm presumably found it harder to assemble the clout needed for this initiative because support for them is hardly unanimous; but high levels of unsupport are exactly what you build a quality repressive apparatus for.

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