Just for background: These actions are targeted against Chinese companies, in the continued battle by Indian government to fight against recent land grab near Himalayas by Chinese Army and long term economic war e.g., New Silk Road, Trade Deficit etc.
I wonder how long it will be until every country just has its own segregated internet. Will it happen on its own for economic reasons or will it take a real war that involves massive hacking attacks from both sides?
PayTM which is huge in India has Chinese investors like Ant financials and Alibaba. Ant being largest share holder with 29.71% ownership.<p>So it’s curious to see the selective retaliation. At what point a company is Chinese?<p>PayTM raked in immense profit following demonetization in India(overnight invalidation of several currency notes). And it continues to handle large amounts of financial transactions on daily basis.
Like or not, the internet has been way more popular than the original inventors intended. Because it’s popular, governments want to control it for their own agendas.<p>Just the way we have import/export sanctions, I can see why we have similar gates for the Internet.<p>If we really want the promise of Internet to live on, then we ought to invest in more decentralized technology. Push for mobile OSs allowing other apps. As long as the reigns are controlled by only a few Mega corps, we are at risk.<p>Our mobile phones are an extension of who we are, but they aren’t owned by us.
Ali express? C'mon.<p>If I could find my electronics elsewhere and for a reasonable price, I would choose that but I can't. Government butchered the manufacturing industry, imposed ridiculous taxes (even increased them during the pandemic), custom duties and all sort of red tape which makes education for young generation harder. How can individuals work on the next generation robots, electronics, whatever if you can't even get decent micro controllers and brushless motors in india?<p>And it's not like big <i>indian</i> companies aren't selling data back to china. Majority of unicorns in india are taking investment from China. Paytm is china funded. Why don't they ban any investment from China?
I was one of the core developers on the game named "Happy fish" 7-8 years ago, I wonder why was that blocked, as I don't remember the company being Chinese owned.
Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow on its own.
How exactly does a movers-n-packers/goods shipping company become prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India let alone not be in the best interest of the citizens? Like did they conduct a poll to ban Lalamove?<p>Real baller move would be to ban anything with a China built SoC, if at all hatred for China is a reason to begin with.
With AliSuppliers gone, many vendors like me won't be able to get new business and with AliExpress gone, many tinkerers like me won't have access to components.<p>Good bye innovation by many and welcome monopoly by crony.
Good for them to raise up against a totalitarian. If all free all free. But if one sided close boarder by china, do not blame others not to let its app to go to the world.<p>Free is never one sided. So us trade.
Indian regime is intentionally keeping its people poor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_currency_in_circulation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...</a>