Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and Other Internet Giants Comply With India's IT Rules

Google, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn and Tiger Global-backed Indian startups ShareChat and Koo have either fully or partially complied with the South Asian nation's new IT rules, TechCrunch reported Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter and a government note. From a report: India's new IT rules, unveiled in February this year, require firms to appoint and share contact details of representatives tasked with compliance, nodal point of reference and grievance redressals to address on-ground concerns. The aforementioned firms have complied with this requirement, the government note and a person familiar with the matter said. The firms were required to comply with the new IT rules by this week. Twitter has yet to comply with the rules. "Twitter sent a communication late last night, sharing details of a lawyer working in a law firm in India as their Nodal Contact Person and Grievance Officer," a note prepared by New Delhi said, adding that the rules require the aforementioned officials to be direct employees.

How do the rest of us become a sovereign state?!

[Arzaboa]

I'd love it if these same companies would create representatives tasked with compliance, nodal point of reference and grievance redressals to address on-ground concerns for the rest of us humans.

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

Change how you vote

[rsilvergun]

and how your friends and family vote. Stop paying attention to pointless wedge issues like the Culture War, Drug War, Abortion or the origins of COVID-19. Focus on economics and civil rights. Understand that if you work for a living then a rising tide raises all boats, meaning you should support higher wages and benefits for employee, even the ones you don't like and/or don't work as hard as you do (or maybe work harder but in menial labor).

Vote in your primary. Oppose laws restricting voting, they *will* be used against you eventually. Support college free tuition and demand critical thinking skills be taught in public schools (things like how to check a source, signs of propaganda, etc, etc).

Never vote for an actor. A comedian is fine but an actor's job is to make you think they're something they're not. Try not to vote for the candidate that "feels" better. Look for competent administrators.

Finally recognize that Democracy is a complex machine, and like all complex machines it needs constant maintenance. And not the exciting "oiled with the blood of patriots" kind but the dull as dishwater "showing up to vote and paying attention to your kid's textbooks and what they're teaching" kind.

If all that seems like too much work... well that's why democracy is slipping away here.

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[bubblyceiling]

This ^^^ Just came to say this. We need to all use our votes better.

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[ShanghaiBill]

a rising tide raises all boats, meaning you should support higher wages and benefits for employee

No, that is the opposite of what the phrase means. A rising tide lifts all boats [wikipedia.org] is a phrase often attributed to JFK (although he didn't originate it) to justify broad supply-side stimulus, the opposite of demand-side benefits to specifically targeted classes.

Many lefties even denigrate the phrase as "A rising tide lifts all yachts" to express their disapproval of the idea it represents.

I'm talking about demand side economics

[rsilvergun]

as opposed to supply side economics, just to be 100% clear. Higher wages at the low end push wages up across the board. Not only through increased economic activity but by lessening the pressure to find and compete for higher tier jobs.

Currently the restaurant industry has a labor shortage. It's not caused by unemployment, it's caused by restaurant workers who, while on extended unemployment, got a taste of having enough money to make ends meet and want to keep doing that. So they're looking for new, be

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[ghoul]

Fight and win a 90 yr independence with millions of casualties. This weekend is memorial day. Remember those who died for freedom.

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[Freischutz]

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Re: Facebook Careers:

[shm]

So basically any old Facebook user - sorry product - can apply?

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[Krishnoid]

Twitter posted the same thing! Unfortunately, this negotiation expert [slashdot.org] just passed away.

No choice

[backslashdot]

If they did not do it, they would lose money and competing Indian clones of these companies will take the market. End result is that the privacy of even one person would not be helped by non-compliance. In the end, they would be hero to nobody by dying on the hill of principles. Who would benefit? Practically it is better to dominate the market in India and slowly change politicians and minds there the long difficult way.

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[allisgood]

India is not China. "It", is not the CPC. "The country" does not have an agenda to create clones and prevent the originals from operating in its market. Till the originals behave, there is not much that the government can do. If the government overplays its hand, the judicial system can and must be used to level the playing field. India's judicial system has rebuked the central (US: federal) government several times in the past two months for its mishandling of the 2nd wave of Covid-19. The government has n

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[ShanghaiBill]

Culturally, linguistically, and genetically, India is closer to Europe than it is to China or Japan.

Many Indian-Americans will mark their race as "White" rather than "Asian" on forms that don't have "South Asian" as a separate choice. They often feel that choosing "White" better represents what they are. If one of the choices is "Caucasian", that is even more accurate, since most Indians are Caucasian, as are Iranians and Pakistanis.

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[junglee_iitk]

You were certainly not high when writing that because cannabis doesn't make someone babble ideas that are outright deranged and detached from reality. You must be incredibly drunk.

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[dromgodis]

Many Indian-Americans will mark their race as "White" rather than "Asian" on forms that don't have "South Asian" as a separate choice. They often feel that choosing "White" better represents what they are.

I believe that I will never understand or appreciate this institutionalized racism in USA. Apart from for very specific medical conditions, I can't think of many situations where it would make any useful sense to specify ones self-experienced "race".

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[dwater]

Being moderated 'Troll' is becoming a badge of honour.

Perhaps Slashdot's moderation system needs an overhaul.

American companies comply with local laws

[khchung]

"American companies comply with local laws when operating in foreign country"

This is basically what the headline is about, and that was considered newsworthy.

Shows you how screwed up American companies have been operating overseas in the past.