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+Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid
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+Recently, Indian government became the [first ever democratic government to ban E2EE chat clients on mass scale](https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mobile-apps-blocked-jammu-kashmir-terrorists-8585046/), one of which is [Element](https://element.io/) which I use regularly. However, these bans for now are only applied to Kashmir state where I don't live so even though I am not "affected" by this ban, I still went ahead to write this article anyway due to the sheer stupidity and malice of the Indian government.
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+### The Reason
+If you are not from India, you might be surprised that the reason of the government justifying to "ban" these apps is not for "protecting muh children" like usual governments do, but rather for the reason of the terrorists apparently using these apps, for which their only "prove" is from the government itself. Now even though the topic of terrorism in Kashmir itself is not under the scope of this article, however I do want to let you know that terrorism there is indeed a serious issue. This however does not justify the actions of the government at the slightest as this is an act of trying to supress the right of privacy of citizens. Unfortunately, the government here has a habit of actively censoring contents whenever there is a senstive issue happening in the country. For some context, [here the internet shutdowns occured 84 times](https://thewire.in/tech/india-remains-internet-shutdown-capital-of-the-world-for-fifth-year-running-report), 49 of which happened on Kashmir alone.
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+### The Stupidity
+This ban however is retarded above and beyond especially on banning Element due to the fact that the government is just basically restricting the access of one client. Since Element is a client of [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) a decentralized protocol which has no centralized servers where encrypted chats and its contents are stored but rather there can be hundreads of instances, some of which aren't even accessible to regular people at all as well as having mutliple clients which haven't got banned, this ban becomes hilariously useless. Even if they try to ban those clients as well, you can still get it either through [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/en/) or through other means as at least for now, the ban is only focused for Google Play Store where the "banned" apps were being listed on. However, do note that if the police caught you using one of these apps, you can get into trouble so keep that in mind.
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+### The Usual Thing
+This is not the first time the Indian Government tried to censor a platform for the justification of "the terrorists were using it!1!1!1!". In fact, this behaviour is repeated for years. As an another example, back in 2014 the Indian Government forced several ISPs here to restrict [Github and Pastebin](https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsht/) for the reason of "ISIS terrorists using these platforms". No proves were provided for such claims and eventually they lifted the restriction.
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+### The Question Of Liberty And Safety