Looks like India's military is also banning US apps. FB, SNAP etc. Not an Indian, but I think this is a wise move by the Indian government. Personally, I think the Indian government should actually ban all foreign social media apps. India got 1.4B people, any company with an app that dominates the Indian market is a tier 1 (or at the very least a very strong unicorn startup) company. I always wonder, why would the Indian government allow it's market to be taken by foreign apps so easily? Especially given the fact that India has so many talented developers.
IMHO, Indian politicians have great visionary power but no execution skills. Indian sw developers have great execution skills but lack vision.
Wondering how we break this psychological barrier that is lingering since colonial times
I think it will take time. long time. I believe, we will gradually and eventually reach there. Talking about tech industry. Not sure if politics situation will ever improve, although i see AAP as a change in right direction.
Fb, snap are not banned
That’s only for active army personnel, not for civilians
Who on earth cares about India army?
Did it hurt?
CCP cares
Indian army? Are you out of your mind? They don’t rule India and have no powers to make such decision.
The rule is for military personnel.
better ban Russian Su-30, France Rafale fighters, US C130, Israel missiles.... they all have backdoors
App's data is at end user level. Can be used to monitor traits, trends, even so much so as manipulate people's psychology. Whole world will know when India fires an Isreal missile or flies a Rafael fighter jet. Sure there is privacy with that too, like where is it stored and what's the mission, etc. The fact we know exactly how much these things costed v. We don't know how much $ tech companies make from the Indian market or - AFFECT the Indian market, speaks volumes.
China created huge wealth for its citizens by keeping all the western companies out and just copying them for domestic use. Its time India do the same.
too late
Exactly! India is properly the ONLY other country except for China and US that have the talents to compete in the high tech industry. What's more, India can create 100+ unicorn companies overnight just by banning foreign tech companies..... So the question is why don't India do it???
If app is good it'll have userbase and truth is other local apps suck and that's the hard truth. I'm not getting into debates should an app be banned or not, as these are more political in nature rather than national security.
Finally someone speaks the truth
Nothing to with User data theft etc. From a close relative in Army, it is to stop young recruits sharing sensitive data through honey trap.
Most be crazy to block Facebook!